RE: MI-L Custom Symbols

[Stuart Morrison]

Hi Aaron,
Are you sure that the symbol is the same spec as the existing bitmap symbols 
i.e. 1x1cm 16 bit.

Regards
Stuart
From: "Zanatta Aaron (ST)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com'" 

Subject: MI-L Custom Symbols
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:58:47 +0100

Hello All,
I just added a new bmp symbol to my custom symbol folder, then back in
MapInfo I clicked on Layer control - Display options - custom symbols, at
this point I clicked on Reload to update the custom symbol I just 
added.
This did not work as I expected, as all the previously listed custom 
symbols
disappeared from the drop down Symbol style box, except for the Ambulance
and the N. All the symbols are still located in the custom symbol folder,
but they are not showing in MapInfo.

Does anyone know how I will go about getting them back into MapInfo?
Thanks in Advance
Aaron
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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols

[Rob Davis]

 Søren,

That helps a lot.  Now how do I change the default directory to one on the 
network?

Robert Davis
GIS Officer
Alpine Shire Council
Great Alpine Road
P.O. Box 139
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Victoria 3741

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From: Søren Breddam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:17 AM
To: Rob Davis
Subject: SV: MI-L Custom Symbols


Hi Rob,

To my knowledge it's only possible to do this with mapbasic

You'll find your user's custom symbols with:

LocateFile$(LOCATE_CUSTSYMB_DIR)

Then you can have a directory on a network drive with all not MI standard
symbols that you copy to the above path. 
You can launch the app through a workspace.

HTH

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Dear List,

Does anyone know of a way of using custom symbols globally across a network?
Also is there an easy way to keep my own custom labels when a new version of
Mapinfo is loaded - and why do they move the CUSTSYMB directory between
versions and not tell you?

Also does anyone out there know of a good symbol set for Australian Local
Government and traffic signs suitable for Mapinfo?

Thank you

Robert Davis
GIS Officer
Alpine Shire Council
Great Alpine Road
P.O. Box 139
Bright
Victoria 3741

Ph (03) 5755 0552


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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols

[Rob Davis]

Søren,

That fixes my custom symbols on my local drive, does this mean all other users 
have to do the same thing?  Is there no way to use the network directory 
directly so that everyone gets the new symbols immediately without having to 
update the local drive?

Robert Davis
GIS Officer
Alpine Shire Council
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P.O. Box 139
Bright
Victoria 3741

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Sent: Friday, 16 September 2005 7:41 AM
To: Rob Davis
Subject: SV: MI-L Custom Symbols


Robert,

You'll have to copy files from the network directory to the custom symbols
directory. Try this mb file. It's not tested ;-)
Look esp. at lines around 68...

Venligst

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 Søren,

That helps a lot.  Now how do I change the default directory to one on the
network?

Robert Davis
GIS Officer
Alpine Shire Council
Great Alpine Road
P.O. Box 139
Bright
Victoria 3741

Ph (03) 5755 0552


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From: Søren Breddam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:17 AM
To: Rob Davis
Subject: SV: MI-L Custom Symbols


Hi Rob,

To my knowledge it's only possible to do this with mapbasic

You'll find your user's custom symbols with:

LocateFile$(LOCATE_CUSTSYMB_DIR)

Then you can have a directory on a network drive with all not MI standard
symbols that you copy to the above path. 
You can launch the app through a workspace.

HTH

Søren Breddam
Stevns Kommune - www.stevns.dk
Vallø-Stevns fusion: 
www.valloe-stevns.dk
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Sendt: 12. september 2005 07:21
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Emne: MI-L Custom Symbols


Dear List,

Does anyone know of a way of using custom symbols globally across a network?
Also is there an easy way to keep my own custom labels when a new version of
Mapinfo is loaded - and why do they move the CUSTSYMB directory between
versions and not tell you?

Also does anyone out there know of a good symbol set for Australian Local
Government and traffic signs suitable for Mapinfo?

Thank you

Robert Davis
GIS Officer
Alpine Shire Council
Great Alpine Road
P.O. Box 139
Bright
Victoria 3741

Ph (03) 5755 0552


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RE: MI-L Custom symbols

[Colin Henderson]

You can put a mapbasic statement inside your workspace.  To remove a menu you issue an 
alter menu statement.  I assume by the reload menu item you are referring to the 'File 
> Revert Table' option? If that is the case then the statement would be:
 
Alter Menu "File" Remove 107
 
Stick this in your workspace file and mapinfo will remove the menu option from the 
file menu.
 
Regards,
Colin Henderson

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We have set up our own custom symbols which are present when you load
MapInfo. However if you accidentally press on the Reload our custom symbols
disappear and MapInfo's custom symbols are present. To retrieve our custom
symbols we have to restart the program which wastes time.

Is there a way in which we can disable the reload button, or how can we
re-code the reload button so if its pressed it loads our custom symbols?

Many thanks for your help

Have a happy Christmas and happy new year.

Gina





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RE: MI-L Custom symbols

[Laurence]

Hi Gina,

There is a way to do this is to run the following statement (in the
startup.wor, mapbasic window or mbx):

Alter MapInfoDialog  dialog_ID  
Control   control_ID 
{ Disable | Hide  | Value  new_value  } [ ,  {
Disable...  } ] 
[   Control... ] 

The diallog ID numbers are version specific though. To determine a
dialog's ID number, run MapInfo for Windows with this command line: 

  mapinfow.exe  -helpdiag 

After you run MapInfo with the -helpdiag argument, display a MapInfo
dialog box and click the Help button. Ordinarily, the Help button
launches Help, but because you used the -helpdiag argument, MapInfo
displays the ID number of the current dialog box. 

Each individual control has an ID number. For example, most OK buttons
have an ID number of 1, and most Cancel buttons have an ID number of 2.
To determine the ID number for a specific control, you must use a
third-party developer's utility, such as the Spy++ utility that
Microsoft provides with its C compiler. The MapBasic software does not
provide a Spy++ utility. 

In your case (based MI ver 7.0):
Alter MapInfoDialog 3110 Control  Disable
Where  is the Control ID (which I have not determined)

HTH,

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We have set up our own custom symbols which are present when you load
MapInfo. However if you accidentally press on the Reload our custom
symbols disappear and MapInfo's custom symbols are present. To retrieve
our custom symbols we have to restart the program which wastes time.

Is there a way in which we can disable the reload button, or how can we
re-code the reload button so if its pressed it loads our custom symbols?

Many thanks for your help

Have a happy Christmas and happy new year.

Gina





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Re: MI-L Custom Symbols

[Flavio Hendry]

hi fergus

check the number of colours ... I think it has to be 256 (8 bit).

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Subject: MI-L Custom Symbols

> 
> Dear All, 
> 
> I am trying to import custom symbols in to MapInfo 7.  I have saved
> the .bmp
> files in the CustSymb folder, hit refresh in MapInfo, but they don't
> appear.
> It is the right folder as I have taken out symbols that are already
> there,
> and they no longer appear in MapInfo, I put them back, hit refresh
> and they
> are back again.  It's just the images I have created that don't work.
>  I
> have made the symbols the same file size and dimensions as the ones
> that
> work, but still no luck.
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> Regards,
> Fergus.
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Re: MI-L Custom Symbols

[Jonathan Gledhill]

I think mapinfo 7 doesn't automatically recognise the CustSYMB folder
the way it did in previous versions. I think you have to add the
location of the custsymb folder in the startup.wor file manually.

We altered our startup.wor to look like this:

!Workspace
!Version 400
!Charset WindowsLatin1
Reload Custom Symbols from "m:\custom symbols"

Try that, changing the location of the custom symbols to wherever it is
on your machine / network.

Cheers




Jonathan Gledhill
Assistant Operations Engineer
Biwater Treatment Ltd

Tel: 0141 847 5672
eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20/01/2004 15:46:05 >>>

Dear All, 

I am trying to import custom symbols in to MapInfo 7.  I have saved the
.bmp
files in the CustSymb folder, hit refresh in MapInfo, but they don't
appear.
It is the right folder as I have taken out symbols that are already
there,
and they no longer appear in MapInfo, I put them back, hit refresh and
they
are back again.  It's just the images I have created that don't work. 
I
have made the symbols the same file size and dimensions as the ones
that
work, but still no luck.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Fergus.







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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols

[Bagwell, Ross]

Jonathan,

It isn't that MapInfo 7 doesn't automatically recognize the CustSymb folder, it is 
that the CustSymb folder has been moved due to Windows 2000 compliancy.

The old CustSymb folder (MI 6.5 and less) was located in /ROOT/Program 
Files/MapInfo/Professional/CustSymb/

The new CustSymb folder is located in /ROOT/Documents and 
Settings/USERNAME/Application Data/MapInfo/Mapinfo/Professional/700/CustSymb

-Ross E. Bagwell
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Universal Access Inc

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Subject: Re: MI-L Custom Symbols


I think mapinfo 7 doesn't automatically recognise the CustSYMB folder
the way it did in previous versions. I think you have to add the
location of the custsymb folder in the startup.wor file manually.

We altered our startup.wor to look like this:

!Workspace
!Version 400
!Charset WindowsLatin1
Reload Custom Symbols from "m:\custom symbols"

Try that, changing the location of the custom symbols to wherever it is
on your machine / network.

Cheers




Jonathan Gledhill
Assistant Operations Engineer
Biwater Treatment Ltd

Tel: 0141 847 5672
eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20/01/2004 15:46:05 >>>

Dear All, 

I am trying to import custom symbols in to MapInfo 7.  I have saved the
.bmp
files in the CustSymb folder, hit refresh in MapInfo, but they don't
appear.
It is the right folder as I have taken out symbols that are already
there,
and they no longer appear in MapInfo, I put them back, hit refresh and
they
are back again.  It's just the images I have created that don't work. 
I
have made the symbols the same file size and dimensions as the ones
that
work, but still no luck.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Fergus.







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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols

[David Reid]

Try converting the image to a plain .bmp (bitmap image) Resample it down to a
minimum of 32x32 pixels, color type 8-bit palleted (system colors).  I think
there is also a limit on the actual file size of 2,024 bytes  (2kb).

Place the bmp file in your Mapinfo "CustSymb" directory, restart MI if already
open, then reopen MI, double click the object, and chose custom symbol from the
font menu and look for your new symbol.

Takes a bit of tweaking but once done, you'll get the hang of it.

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Hi--

I am interested in using a symbol, in this case a tree, that was created in
Adobe Illustrator and using it with in MapInfo 7.0.  I have a tool that allows
for the creation of custom symbols in MapInfo---however I do not know how to get
the image from Illustrator into MapInfo--

I tried to create a .tiff file but realized that everywhere the tree isn't is
white---and when imported into the map doesn't look right.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Krista

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Re: MI-L Custom symbols

[Jaimini CHATWANI]

Paul/Vinesh

I've tried using reload button but the option was still not available
to me.  I reduced the size of the file down to 12K although I noticed
that the other symbols were only 1K.  However, in the past when I had
saved my company logo as a bitmap file in the Custom symbols
directory it worked very well and the size of that file is 56K. 

When you say that whether I have created my bitmaps correctly, how do
you mean?

Regards.

Jaimini

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> You should be able to see a 'reload' button on the symbols dialog. Hit this
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> Dear List
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> I have some custom symbols that I would like to save in Custom
> symbols directory in mapinfo so that when I want to use it as a
> symbol I can.  I have managed to save them as bitmap but when I try
> to insert them from the folder "Custom Symbols", they are not
> available.  The symbols I have saved are "mini roundabout" and
> "motorway information sign".  I would be grateful if somebody could
> help me with this.
> 
> Thanks and regards.
> 
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Re: MI-L custom symbols

[John Elliot]

Paul
Have a look at the Font Creator Prgram - a shareware product
http://www.high-logic.com/

It is bit sparse on instructions but I think you will find it can do pretty
well everything.

John

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> Could anyone tell me what the easiest way is to create my own symbols
> please.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
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Re: MI-L custom symbols

[Dr. Franz-Josef Behr]

Additional remark:

If you habe Corel Draw you should be able to use it also for creating
True Type Fonts.

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Have a look at the Font Creator Prgram - a shareware product
http://www.high-logic.com/

It is bit sparse on instructions but I think you will find it can do
pretty
well everything.

John

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> Could anyone tell me what the easiest way is to create my own symbols
> please.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Paul Simpson
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> London W1W 8AG
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RE: [MI-L] Custom Symbols

[David Reid]

Title: Message



If this is what I 
expect, you'll be happy to know, it's not a problem with Mapinfo, or even Adobe, 
but you will need to change a setting in Adobe to display your graphics 
asthetically.
 
I'm running Adobe 
6.0, but I'm sure this would apply to Adobe Acrobat and other 
versions.
 
While viewing any of 
your PDF's, from the file menu click [Edit] / [Preferences] / 
[General]
 
Select "Display" 
from the list and look for the "Smoothing" area of the 
dialog.
 
You should find 
several check boxes that when applied will smooth text, line art and 
images.
 
Depending on what 
application you're viewing your PDF's with, the wording and location for these 
features may be a bit different but should be in there 
somewhere.
 
HTH
Dave
 
 
 

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Hi List:
I created and imported a custom 
North Arrow symbol in MapInfo (8.0) successfully. It looks very crisp and 
clear in MapInfo and prints great. As soon as I create a PDF from this document, 
my North Arrow looks pixelly and of low resolution. The PDF I am 
creating is of medium resolution.  Any 
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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols Didn't Appear

[Hill, Ralph]

I found another CustSymb folder on my computer. Running Windows 2000 and
MapInfo 7.0.
If I add new symbols or change them here it works.
 
C:\Documents and Settings\your profile\Application
Data\MapInfo\MapInfo\Professional\700\CustSymb
 
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I wanted to use my custom bitmap as symbols. I followed what the manual
suggested, i.e. saved the symbol as bitmap in the CUSTSYMB directory. I
reloaded it and even closed the session and opened MapInfo again, the symbol
just didn't appear from the font list. 
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
 

Wai Sze (Lacey) Chan 
Information and Data Analysis Librarian 
New Americans Program 
Queens Borough Public Library 


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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols Don't Appear

[Terry McDonnell]

Don

What are you using the symbols for?  I ask because Jacque Paris's
web-site http://www.paris-pc-gis.com, has a very useful "Resource
Hacker" application for creating your own icon resource DLLs.  I've used
it to set up my own custom buttons, with my own pix.

Maybe this will help.

Terry McDonnell

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Hi List,

I am having the same problem as Wai Chan.  My custom symbols won't
appear in
the Custom Symbols in MapInfo.  The Bitmaps are no greater than 32 x 32
pixels and all are under 1k.  They are also 8 bit color format, but only
contain black and white.  I have even removed some of the symbols that
were
already in the CUSTSYMB folder, yet MI doesn't recognise this.  I've
restarted MI as well as the computer.  Still nothing.

I'm using MI 7.0. Any help would be appreciated.





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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols Didn't Appear

[Chan, Wai]

Problem solved. Just want to share the fix to the list in case it may also
work for some of you. 

I don't have any CUSTSYMB folder under my username (I don't know why). All
the custom symbols I see are from the Program
Files\MapInfo\Professional\CUSTSYMB. I created a symbol in Paint with 32X32
pixels, 16 color bitmap with a file name 1-32. Then alone didn't work.
Only until I saved it as one of the already existing file, e.g. HYDR1-32,
and made it HYDR2-32, then it finally showed up. I have no idea why but it
worked. 

A thousand thanks to those who've sent me advices. I really appreciate a
lot. 

Lacey

 
> -Original Message-
> From: Chan, Wai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:12 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' 
> Subject: MI-L Custom Symbols Didn't Appear
> 
> 
> I wanted to use my custom bitmap as symbols. I followed what 
> the manual suggested, i.e. saved the symbol as bitmap in the 
> CUSTSYMB directory. I reloaded it and even closed the session 
> and opened MapInfo again, the symbol just didn't appear from 
> the font list. 
>  
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
>  
> 
> Wai Sze (Lacey) Chan 
> Information and Data Analysis Librarian 
> New Americans Program 
> Queens Borough Public Library 
> 
> 
> Email:   
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
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RE: MI-L Custom symbols in Win XP

[Ben A Greenberg]

With post-WIN 2000 OS Mapinfo stores them locally and separate for each user
of the machine (if there are more than one)
I think you will find them at "C:\Documents and Settings\(you login
name)\Application Data\MapInfo\MapInfo\Professional\650\CustSymb

Hope this helps

Ben Greenberg
GIS Coordinator
NAI MLG Commercial
13400 Bishops Ln Suite 100
Brookfield, WI. 53005
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We are upgrading our OS to Win XP and I am testing MapInfo v 7.0.  I have a
set of custom symbols  (standard format) which I used in v 6.0.

I cannot for the life of me figure out where the custsymb folder is

Searched for preloded bitmaps (ie ambul32.bmp) and only could find then in
a cab archive file in C:\program
files\MapInfo\Professional\AddUser\Data.cab

Any ideas on where/how I can add my own custom symbols ?

Thanks,

Ross Wootton

RE: MI-L Custom symbols in Win XP

[Peter Horsbøll Møller]

And a tricky thing is that if you haven't turn off the Option in Windows to
hide System files, you'll never find them !

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> 
> 
> With post-WIN 2000 OS Mapinfo stores them locally and 
> separate for each user of the machine (if there are more than 
> one) I think you will find them at "C:\Documents and 
> Settings\(you login name)\Application 
> Data\MapInfo\MapInfo\Professional\650\CustSymb
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Ben Greenberg
> GIS Coordinator
> NAI MLG Commercial
> 13400 Bishops Ln Suite 100
> Brookfield, WI. 53005
> Direct (262) 938-5053
> Fax (262) 797-8940
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> 
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> 
> 
> We are upgrading our OS to Win XP and I am testing MapInfo v 
> 7.0.  I have a set of custom symbols  (standard format) which 
> I used in v 6.0.
> 
> I cannot for the life of me figure out where the custsymb folder is
> 
> Searched for preloded bitmaps (ie ambul32.bmp) and only could 
> find then in a cab archive file in C:\program 
> files\MapInfo\Professional\AddUser\Data.cab
> 
> Any ideas on where/how I can add my own custom symbols ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ross Wootton
> 
> 

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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols woth MI 6.5

[scoubes]

Hi,

Many people has this problem because Mapinfo has change the place of the
custom symbol : "C:\Documents and Settings\Yourname\Application
Data\MapInfo\MapInfo\Professional\650\CustSymb"

You must put in this directory your custom symbol that are in the other
directory (C:\Program Files\MapInfo\Professional).

Hope that help you,
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Hi,

I've install MapInfo 6.5 on several NT4, SR6 computers and our custom
symbols do not appear in the symbol dialog box on any of them.

Our symbols are all square (32x32), most are 256 colours but some are Black
& White.  We have had no problems with them in previous versions of MI.

Has anybody else experienced this problem and if so is there a solution?

Thanks,

Chris



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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols and MapInfo 6.5

[Christopher DuBuc]

Catherine,

Make sure that your symbol is has 256k color depth or less. If it is set
to 24-bit color (which paintbrush defaults to, for example) then the
symbol will not show. Also, the symbol has to 32x32 pixels or less and
needs to be in the correct directory (the directory location changed in
ver. 6.5!)

Cheers,

Chris

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Lessard
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 12:01 PM
To: MapInfo Discussion Group
Subject: MI-L Custom Symbols and MapInfo 6.5

Good morning everyone,

I am wondering if anyone might have come up with this problem...
Using MapInfo 6.5 (+patch) on Windows 2000, I tried adding a bitmap to
the MapInfo Custom Symbol folder. I tried different formats of bitmaps,
various name formats. They are of an appropriate size.Then I tried to
modify an actual MapInfo Custom Symbol or to simply rename one of them.
I have reloaded the custom symbols in MapInfo and reloaded MapInfo
itself. Nothing will do.

I noticed that when I modify the folder, MapInfo will display the custom
symbols in their name's alphabetical order until it gets to the new one.
The new one and the rest of them will not be displayed. If my new
symbol's name starts with a z, I'll see all of them but my new symbol.
Also, if I use a new symbol and give it the name of an already existing
MapInfo custom symbol, even the I won't see my new symbol.

I remember doing such things without too many problems before (version
6.0). Anyone has any idea?

Thank you in advance for any help!



Best regards,

Catherine Lessard


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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols and MapInfo 6.5

[Catherine Lessard]

Hello to all!

Thank you for the prompt answers I received. But I think I may have
exposed my problem in a bit of a twisted way and was misunderstood by
most. So my problem is not simply the image format, nor the location of
the CustSymb repertory, but really the fact that I can't modify one of
MapInfo's own Custom Symbols (This means that the image format remains
unchanged from the original MapInfo CustomSymbol) Also, I couldn't even
simply rename one of MapInfo's Custom Symbol. This is really unusual,
isn't it?

And of course all of this is working peachy with MapInfo 6.0...

Best regards,

Catherine Lessard


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Envoyé : jeudi 20 septembre 2001 14:13
À : Catherine Lessard; 'MapInfo Discussion Group'
Objet : RE: MI-L Custom Symbols and MapInfo 6.5


Catherine,

Make sure that your symbol is has 256k color depth or less. If it is set
to 24-bit color (which paintbrush defaults to, for example) then the
symbol will not show. Also, the symbol has to 32x32 pixels or less and
needs to be in the correct directory (the directory location changed in
ver. 6.5!)

Cheers,

Chris

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Catherine
Lessard
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 12:01 PM
To: MapInfo Discussion Group
Subject: MI-L Custom Symbols and MapInfo 6.5

Good morning everyone,

I am wondering if anyone might have come up with this problem...
Using MapInfo 6.5 (+patch) on Windows 2000, I tried adding a bitmap to
the MapInfo Custom Symbol folder. I tried different formats of bitmaps,
various name formats. They are of an appropriate size.Then I tried to
modify an actual MapInfo Custom Symbol or to simply rename one of them.
I have reloaded the custom symbols in MapInfo and reloaded MapInfo
itself. Nothing will do.

I noticed that when I modify the folder, MapInfo will display the custom
symbols in their name's alphabetical order until it gets to the new one.
The new one and the rest of them will not be displayed. If my new
symbol's name starts with a z, I'll see all of them but my new symbol.
Also, if I use a new symbol and give it the name of an already existing
MapInfo custom symbol, even the I won't see my new symbol.

I remember doing such things without too many problems before (version
6.0). Anyone has any idea?

Thank you in advance for any help!



Best regards,

Catherine Lessard


Catherine Lessard / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Geographer - Cartographer
GIS department

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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols Didn't Appear For Me Either

[Hughes, Colleen / Don Mitchell]

Thanks to all for the help,

I just needed to put it in the 'other' CUSTSYMB folder.  It's early and I
need more coffee to wake up.

Don Mitchell


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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols Didn't Appear For Me Either

[Apers Mathieu]

I had this same problem a while agoi ended up doing a search on the C: drive and 
found that the Custom symbol directory was duplicated twice...

once in: 
C:\Documents and Settings\apers\Application 
Data\MapInfo\MapInfo\Professional\700\CustSymb

and again in:
C:\Documents and Settings\apers\Application Data\MapInfo\MapInfo\ProViewer\700\CustSymb

I opened an existing Custom symbol, edited it (using paint,  simply importing the new 
symbol into it) i then made sure i copied the new symbol to both directories.

now i'm no programmiong Whizz but to me it LOOKED simply like 2 seperate directories 
for MAPINFO and for PROVIEWER, but the custom symbol did not appear in MAPINFO until i 
had changed it in BOTH directories. (i'm on v7.0 also BTW)

go figure!
hope this is helpful.

Cheers

Mathieu

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Hi List,

I am having the same problem as Wai Chan.  My custom symbols won't appear in
the Custom Symbols in MapInfo.  The Bitmaps are no greater than 32 x 32
pixels and all are under 1k.  They are also 8 bit color format, but only
contain black and white.  I have even removed some of the symbols that were
already in the CUSTSYMB folder, yet MI doesn't recognise this.  I've
restarted MI as well as the computer.  Still nothing.

I'm using MI 7.0. Any help would be appreciated.

Don Mitchell
Technician (IMS)
City of St. Thomas
545 Talbot Street
St. Thomas, ON
N5P 3V7
chughes@ city.st-thomas.on.ca
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RE: MI-L Custom Symbols Didn't Appear >> location of application data files

[GIS Helpdesk]

the location of these files is configurable.

from version 6.5 upwards the custom symbols directory (and others like graphing and 
thematic templates) are placed in the user profile (c:\documents and settings) by 
default, rather than in the install directory as previously. 
from version 7 upwards the location of these files could then be controlled by using a 
mode.ini file at install (see user manual for more details although you're also 
welcome to ask me...). this allows you, for example to put these directories into the 
install directory (available to all users) or into per user or per machine profiles. 
there are advantages/ disadvantages to all of these. [a consideration  for us was  the 
sheer size of downloading remote profiles across networks that contain many user 
files, so we use the old default of install directory.] 
i'm interested in other people's course of action on this?

it is possible to end up with several of these directories if previous installs have 
not been cleaned up which may have caused the confusion of locations for some.

Rachel Rosen
GIS Developer
GIS Unit
Countryside Council for Wales
Plas Penrhos
Ffordd Penrhos
Bangor
Gwynedd LL55 3AF
Wales, UK

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>>> "Hill, Ralph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/14/04 02:54pm >>>
I found another CustSymb folder on my computer. Running Windows 2000 and
MapInfo 7.0.
If I add new symbols or change them here it works.
 
C:\Documents and Settings\your profile\Application
Data\MapInfo\MapInfo\Professional\700\CustSymb
 
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-Original Message-
From: Chan, Wai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:12 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' 
Subject: MI-L Custom Symbols Didn't Appear


I wanted to use my custom bitmap as symbols. I followed what the manual
suggested, i.e. saved the symbol as bitmap in the CUSTSYMB directory. I
reloaded it and even closed the session and opened MapInfo again, the symbol
just didn't appear from the font list. 
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
 

Wai Sze (Lacey) Chan 
Information and Data Analysis Librarian 
New Americans Program 
Queens Borough Public Library 


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