MI The Powerful Web Database Building Tools

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RE: MI exporting label to CAD

1999-10-20 Thread Ethan Hohneck
If you use the Tool Manager and click on the check box for the Labeler tool, you can then create a new layer for the labels. Make sure your layer is labelled first. Use the Labeler tool and choose 'Transfer Current Labels'. Then select your layer that has the labels followed be 'New' as the opti

RE: MI Quick VB/MB string formatting question

1999-10-20 Thread PERRY Chris
Yas, and everyone, In MapBasic, use the PathToTableName$() function Given a complete file specification (such as "C:\MapInfo\Data\1995 Data.tab"), returns a string representing a table alias (such as "_1995_Data"). Hope this helps, Chris Perry Systems Development CoOrdinator Parks Victoria M

MI exporting label to CAD

1999-10-20 Thread Hakimi Naimi
Dear all, This question has been once raised but seems that there isn't any thread I'm pursuing it again. How do we save the label placed in MI into layers in CAD? When we exported to DXF we found that the label is still kept in DXF but it is not possible to display them. They can be viewed in

MI Geocoding by eye?

1999-10-20 Thread Laith Wark
I have a map in a particular projection (AMG Zone 56 (AGD 84)). I have a table with 171 entries whose only spatial attribute is a local map reference (eg Map12, A7 or Map 9, M3). I have a hard copy map (local map reference) with each entry marked in its correct location. I need to geocode each

MI Rotating Text

1999-10-20 Thread Ethan Hohneck
Good morning, good evening and good night to you all, Does anybody out there know if you can rotate multiple labels in one step. Rather than individually clicking on each text item. Can you also still rotate all of the labels once they have been put into a seperate table. Any help would be mo

RE: MI Quick VB/MB string formatting question

1999-10-20 Thread yas_nakayama
FYI If you are in VB6, you can also use InstrRev Function -Original Message- From: James F. Koennicke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Timothy Chinchen Cen-IT' Subject: RE: MI Quick VB/MB string formatting question Timothy

RE: MI Counting Site Capacities Within a Census Tract

1999-10-20 Thread Tom White
Mark, Try a MapBasic command like Select Sum(Capacity) from Centers, CensusRegions where CensusRegions.Obj Contains Centers.Obj group by CensusRegions.CensusTractID into Selection Note that 'CensusTractID' connotes a field in your census table which is unique for each census region. You may al

Re: MI How to join customers to nearest stores

1999-10-20 Thread Steve Wallace
Another way to do this involves spending some money and getting a program that will do natural neighbor polygons (also known as Theissen polygons, Regions of Influence, proximal polygons, etc). Using this, you can create polygons from your point file (stores) that will divide the region in que

RE: MI simulated Click

1999-10-20 Thread Tom White
Paul, You can do a number of things. If you want to plot a point in your front window, you can issue the MB command Create Point Into Window FrontWindow() (-122, 47.5) where -120, 44 are example X & Y coordinates. Note that this will create a point in whatever table is marked 'editable'. If

MI How to join customers to nearest stores

1999-10-20 Thread Bill Thoen
Associating customers with the nearest stores is do-able, but a bit complicated. This ought to be a MapInfo built-in function, because if you are new to MapInfo, most of the following probably will go right past you, but it does work. I've cc'ed this to the MapInfo-L list so maybe someone who has

RE: MI Writing to a file

1999-10-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello again Bjorn, > > Does anyone know how I can write to a textfile from a given position? > > I see that there is a SEEK() function to find the current position in an > > open file but I can't find a PLACE() function or something like it. I'm > > trying to figure out how to change the coordsys

RE: MI Quick VB/MB string formatting question

1999-10-20 Thread James F. Koennicke
Timothy, In Visual Basic you can use the brute force method to search the string from right to left looking for the first back slash. Everything to the right of that will be the file name. This can easily be done with the len(), right(), and mid() functions. strFilePath = "c:\data\mytable.tab"

RE: MI Writing to a file

1999-10-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello again Bjorn, > > Does anyone know how I can write to a textfile from a given position? > > I see that there is a SEEK() function to find the current position in an > > open file but I can't find a PLACE() function or something like it. I'm > > trying to figure out how to change the coordsys

RE: MI Writing to a file

1999-10-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello again Bjorn, > > Does anyone know how I can write to a textfile from a given position? > > I see that there is a SEEK() function to find the current position in an > > open file but I can't find a PLACE() function or something like it. I'm > > trying to figure out how to change the coordsys

RE: MI Writing to a file

1999-10-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello again Bjorn, > > Does anyone know how I can write to a textfile from a given position? > > I see that there is a SEEK() function to find the current position in an > > open file but I can't find a PLACE() function or something like it. I'm > > trying to figure out how to change the coordsys

RE: MI Writing to a file

1999-10-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello again Bjorn, > > Does anyone know how I can write to a textfile from a given position? > > I see that there is a SEEK() function to find the current position in an > > open file but I can't find a PLACE() function or something like it. I'm > > trying to figure out how to change the coordsys

RE: MI Expression too complex

1999-10-20 Thread Martin Hodder
Xu, I wonder if you could change your Sql statement to use the in clause So the string would be bt_no in( val1, val2, val,3 etc I also think that even though you can get 32K in a string variable it can only be appended to in 256 byte chunks. So just check that TS is not greater than 256 after

Re: MI Quick VB/MB string formatting question

1999-10-20 Thread Gary Schwartz
Tim, In VB add a reference to the Microsoft Scripting Runtime library (windows\system\scrrun.dll) to your project and then use the FileSystemObject from that library. There is a method called GetBaseName() that will do the trick. In MB use the PathToTableName$() function (it should work

RE: MI Expression too complex

1999-10-20 Thread Martin Hodder
Xu, I wonder if you could change your Sql statement to use the in clause So the string would be bt_no in( val1, val2, val,3 etc I also think that even though you can get 32K in a string variable it can only be appended to in 256 byte chunks. So just check that TS is not greater than 256 after

RE: MI Writing to a file

1999-10-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Bjorn, > Does anyone know how I can write to a textfile from a given position? > I see that there is a SEEK() function to find the current position in an > open file but I can't find a PLACE() function or something like it. I'm > trying to figure out how to change the coordsysclause in a MI

MI Quick VB/MB string formatting question

1999-10-20 Thread Timothy Chinchen Cen-IT
Not necessarily an MI question but in VB and/or MB does anyone know how I can remove the Path info and extension on a string e.g. From C:\data\MyTable.Tab to MyTable Many Thanks Tim Chinchen (GIS Systems Developer) I.T. Services Bournemouth Borough Council Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] **

RE: MI Expression too complex

1999-10-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Xu, > In delphi and MaoInfo Ole , I wrote this code: > > //-code > .. > ts := ''; > for j := 0 to 34 do begin > if j<>34 then > ts := ts + 'bs_no = "'+slist.strings[j] + '" OR ' > else > ts := ts + 'bs_no = "'+slist.strings[j] + '"'; > end;// for

RE: MI MB: How to get rid of temp column

1999-10-20 Thread Crompton, Mark
Hi Markus, If you have not saved the table then use the command: RollBack Table MYTABLENAME - checkout the Mapbasic Help for more details, but it should throw away a linked column. Thanks Mark Crompton -Original Message- From: Markus Lindner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, O

RE: MI Counting Site Capacities Within a Census Tract

1999-10-20 Thread Serge Dumoulin
ah Mark. be glad to helpsounds like the application I first developed with Carl Samples of the Huntsville (Alabama) police department for tracking sex offenders. It's called Megans Mapper (was the very first in the Nation that we developed) and it makes use of child care center data for t

Re: MI system error - floating point error

1999-10-20 Thread Sam Kome
Dear SIPC, The Layout Window depends on information from printer drivers to function. Either no printer driver is setup, or a driver is faulty. Try setting up a printer in the Windows Printer control panel. > Start Menu > Settings >Printers If any printers are defined, ma

Re: MI Re: PLSS Meridian Coordinates

1999-10-20 Thread Steve Wallace
What Dan said is correct, and even if you did have all the meridians you still could not do what you want without additional information (like the county). There are some states that have multiple zones (Mississippi - many; Oklahoma - the panhandle is different; Louisiana - East of the Mississ

MI simulated Click

1999-10-20 Thread Brown Paul
Title: simulated Click Dear MI-L Does anyone know if there is a way of simulating a click on a map through MapBasic?  For example if I have the coords of the point I want to click on, is there a way to click it without physically doing so? something like Create Point would be useful. Will s

MI Expression too complex

1999-10-20 Thread Xu Xiaoning
Hello,All: In delphi and MaoInfo Ole , I wrote this code: //-code .. ts := ''; for j := 0 to 34 do begin if j<>34 then ts := ts + 'bs_no = "'+slist.strings[j] + '" OR ' else ts := ts + 'bs_no = "'+slist.strings[j] + '"'; end;// for ts := 'Select * f

MI Re: PLSS Meridian Coordinates

1999-10-20 Thread Dan Munson
Not going to happen. We've just done extensive work on this. Although the PLSS is a "grid", like anything else, there are exceptions to the rule. Its not a perfectly rectangular grid. I don't think you can generate it; you need to draw it. It will take you forever. You can find much of the P

Re: MI free zip code boundaries

1999-10-20 Thread MAPPER MAN
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Re: MI How to extract cursor location from point objects

1999-10-20 Thread Kazuhiko Yamashita
Dear e-friends here, I have received several emails with practical advice. Thank you. I digitized the chart with a non-earth projection since it is not a map. But it turned out "Centroid" picks up location as decimal degree. So I changed the projection to lon/lat and digitized the chart again. It

Re: MI How to extract cursor location from point objects

1999-10-20 Thread bryan_d
It may be that the map projection of your points is not lat/long. CentroidX/Y use the current coordinate system which defaults to lat/long. Open mapbasic window and type "set coordsys table ". Centroidx/y whould then give you what you want. I use British National Grid and have to do this every ti

MI MB: How to get rid of temp column

1999-10-20 Thread Markus Lindner
Hello list, i have a simple mapbasic problem, but found no answer in the docs. I create a dynamic, temporary column with this command Add Column Cells (Col_Name Integer) From Tab_Name Set To Col_Name Where COL1 = COL1 Dynamic The use the column for a thematic mapping. At the end i want to d