The question: I am looking for a utility that creates buffers with square ends rather than round. Any ideas? The replies: 1. A rather curt, but much to the point answer was to use Create Rect statement; would work fine for lines, but be rather cumbersome with polylines (I cannot find who this answer was coming from; thanks anyway). 2. Stuart Cox was very generous with discussion of concepts on how to program a MapBasic application that would create such buffers. Thanks Stuart; your ideas might be helpful and applicable to an other project I am currently working on. 3. Jacques Paris (who else!) has an utility, called HALFBUFFER, that does exactly what is asked for: half-buffers with square ends. The desired result can be achieved by creating two half-buffers (one on either side of the polyline) and combining them thereafter. 4. François Bergeron provided sample code from one of his applications. Problem solved. My grateful thanks. _____________________________________________ Claude Lavoie Service du soutien à la clientèle Direction des technologies de l'information Ministère des Transports du Québec 35, rue de Port-Royal Est, salle 5.00 a Montréal (Québec) H3L 3T1 Téléphone: (514) 873-6280 Télécopieur: (514) 873-8203 Courriel: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
