RE: MI Grabber

1999-08-13 Thread Alex
I understand MapInfo is talking with the Viagra people about it.   Alex Machinis  EMPOWER GEOGRAPHICS, INC.  1000 Executive Way  Des Plaines, Illinois 60018-1502  847/299-6952  x212 Fax: 847/299-6990 http://www.empowergeo.com http://www.CrossStreets.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]   Not

MI Grabber

1999-08-13 Thread Tom Orr
Hi All   Has anyone noticed their grabber not responding for no reason or is this a quirk of my setup. This happens often on my machine and to kick the grabber out of sleep mode one has to click on another tool or two or zoom in and out and then have a go? This is starting to become a real

RE: MI Celeron Processor

1999-08-13 Thread Andreas Hartmann
Yes, I did that as normal practice anyway. It's not a big deal and doesn't worry me, as we don't run this on a regular basis. If it comes to that I will re-write it (and give it some more thought :-) Thanks, Andreas -Original Message- From: Bill Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sat

MI PRO: Coordinate transformation question

1999-08-13 Thread Uhl, Philip/SLC
Hi, Maybe one of you coordinate system gurus could help me out on this one: I a co-worker with a program called Modflow which uses a Non-Earth (origin 0,0) coordinate system. My map data is in State Plane NAD27 (we're a Lambert Conformal Conic state). I need to specify X and Y offsets for the

Re: MI MapX and Windows CE

1999-08-13 Thread Neil Havermale
John - I am not certain this is entirely true. I have been spending time trying to better understand what Oracle's 8i is all about and in particular how we in the MapInfo matrix might gain the opportunity offered. I beleive the answer is via Java and Oracle's 8i Lite. Oracle Lite is essentiall

MI MapBasic - Inserting Values

1999-08-13 Thread Steve Wallace
I'm perplexed. The following line of code works if I add a breakpoint to my MapBasic program and paste the line of code into the MapBasic window, but it will not work in the compiled code. Insert Into Discussion (Date_Zulu, Time_Zulu, Wind_KTS, Obj) Values (18, "1200Z", 35, CreatePoint(00, 00)

MI MapX and Windows CE

1999-08-13 Thread John Brosowsky
Looks like MI does not support Windows CE for MapX. But they do not discourage anyone from trying it either. Has anybody tried this with any success? John Brosowsky -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTE

RE: MI Problem with MapInfo Printing

1999-08-13 Thread Matt.Wilkie
>We have digitized many high resolutions maps of scale 1: 600 >The width of the map is 1300 feet and the height 900 feet. >After the raster has been registered in non earth feet, the >on screen measurement of the raster and vector is 1300/900. > >But when we take a print out in the same scale 1: 6

RE: MI 5.5 Printing again.

1999-08-13 Thread Matt.Wilkie
>I agree that the printing is not working as it was intended; >however, we must recall that it was the overwhelming majority >voice of the user base that printer settings needed to be included >in the workspace. > >Let's push to get print settings fixed -- not removed. I for one, would like pr

MI Zooming to dot density dots

1999-08-13 Thread Scott England
I have a country level map that is shaded with a dot density layer that occupies only a small corner of the country. How (in MB) do I zoom to the closest view of the entire layer of dots ??   Cheers, Scott..

MI VB tools

1999-08-13 Thread Andy
Hi all,   I'm looking for a resource of Visual Basic objects that can be used to build cheap and cheerful frontends and perform simple tasks on data. If we haven't got a VB&MI site shall we pool together to collate one?   Andy Bailey

MI Half-meter DOQs

1999-08-13 Thread Stew Fleeman
Anyone ever run accross some half-meter digital orthophoto samples? 1-meter DOQs abound, but I am trying to do a mockup and higher resolution would be better. I would like a typical suburban setting showing houses and streets. I only need one tile at least 1/2 mile x 1/2 mile. -- Stew

Re: MI Celeron Processor

1999-08-13 Thread Bill Thoen
What happens if you perform all your queries to a specifically-named temporary table? E.g. instead of: select * from MyTable where MyField = SomeValue you use: select * from MyTable where MyField = SomeValue into TMP Then you can access the values in TMP just like any table, and you are only c

RE: MI MB: How to open a specific Excel worksheet in MapBasic

1999-08-13 Thread GeoInfo Solutions Ltd.
'Still looking for a solution for MapBasic where you don't know in advance the worksheet names or named ranges and want to show a user a choice of worksheet names in an excel file before you register it. The existing MapInfo dialog can do it but I need to simplify it for the end user to just a ch

MI Friday Humor: Who to Marry?

1999-08-13 Thread John Hoffmann
HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY? --- "You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming." Alan, age 10 "No person really decides before they grow up

RE: MI MB: How to open a specific Excel worksheet in MapBasic

1999-08-13 Thread Mapmail
Hi there Brad I have had almost exactly the same problem. After several e-mails to both this list and MapInfo TechSupport I finally got the answer. Cindy at TechSupport fiddeled around with the problem and found out that if you create 'named ranges' in your Excel file (Block the area needed -> se