[MI-L] RE: Re: Looping in MapInfo MapBasic Window

[Hughes, Colleen / Don Mitchell]

Hi Mike,

 

I was/am trying to accomplish a couple of things.

 

1. I am trying to learn MapBasic to write some simple scripts to automate some of the repetitive tasks I have.  I don't have access to a MapBasic license, however, Trey Patillo has helped me figure out how to use another language to pass commands to MapInfo.  This allows me to use things like looping, which I can't do in the MapBasic Window in MapInfo.

 

2. One of the tasks I have been trying to automate with a program is to change the symbol of objects in a TAB based on a collumn value (which seems to be what your MBX would do).  Mind you it would defeat the purpose of trying to learn MapBasic for myself. 8-)

 

At any rate, I haven't had much time to continue with my little project, but so far I created a _vbscript_ program to do this, but I still haven't finished.  My most recent problem is that it changes all of the point symbols the way I want (i.e. ObjectInfo), but it also changes the location (ObjectGeography) of all of the points to the same as the location of the first point in the Selection.  I have a few ideas to try yet, but haven't had the time.

 

Perhaps I can call on your help when I give up out of frustration and lose my mind?

 

_________________________

Don Mitchell

 

GIS Technician (IMS) 

City of St.Thomas

 

Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:56:30 -0700

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Subject: RE: [MI-L] Re: Looping in MapInfo MapBasic Window

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I know that I am coming to the party late. I'm not exactly sure what you what to do. I don't know if what I have can be of use or that it is "general enough" for your use. Years ago, I wrote a MBX that would either change the symbol of an object based on the column "status_cod" or create a thematic map. I used a reference table to store the symbol information. There is a limit of 255 symbols in the thematic maps.

Since all the mbx does it look for named columns in two tables of data, I think this might work for you. I haven't looked at the code & I might have to change some paths.. and if all you want to do is change symbols based on a criteria it should work.

 

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Thanks Bill, Uffe, and Trey,

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