MI vs Arcview

1999-11-12 Thread Roy Chiappini
Hi list, Never tho't I'd be looking for something like this. I seem to recall a pretty fair comparison of MI and arcview. Anyway to get a copy? or where could I look. Have a customer w/a need. Thanks. Roy -- To unsubscribe

MI: Getting Text From Text Object

1999-11-12 Thread Declan Troy
Mappers, In the last few days there has been a bit of a flurry of questions about text: how to select text objects, or selecting text in fields. I have a variant not addressed yet Is there an easy way to transfer the text of a text object into a field? I'd like to, for example, be able to us

MI UK Census

1999-11-12 Thread Schulz, Anne (SGI)
Hello, I am currently researching demographics for site selection purposes in the UK. I ordered the UK Census Demographics pak from MI, but there doesn't seem to be definitions of the variables anywhere. Furthermore, the format they are in truncates their full name. Does anyone have familiarity w

MI Edited Records

1999-11-12 Thread Eric Frost
Mappers, Is there any way to tell which records have been edited (added or moved) right before a commit? I'd like to update to field that says when a record has been "touched". I'd like to do this wihout custom buttons, but I guess it's not big deal make the buttons if necessary... thanks ---

MI Selecting and Editing Multiple Layers Simultaneously

1999-11-12 Thread kkobylski
Is it possible to select and edit multiple layers in MI 5.5 simultaneously? What I want to do is select all from multiple layers, and then make them editable and then reposition them. I dont think that it is possible but I thought I would throw it out there and see what happens. TIA Kris Kobyls

MI MapXtreme Java

1999-11-12 Thread Antoine Gilbert
Hi   I need the MapXtreme 2.0 java evaluation copy, on the MapInfo's web site, only the 2.1 version is available. It's for a client evaluation...   ___   ||//Antoine Gilbert|| // [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| // #ICQ 973737

MI Friday Humor...Cats

1999-11-12 Thread John Haynes
The reason, while I enjoy cats, we remain dog people.   Subject:    How to give a cat a pillHow to give a cat a pill:1)    Pick cat up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as ifholding a baby.Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's  mouthand gently apply press

MI Feature object...

1999-11-12 Thread Tran Thanh
Hello, I'm trying to change the color of a country on the world map. If I click on that country, then by using certain functions in MapExtreme I can get back a Features object. That Features object will have that country Feature. So I did something like: For each objFea

MI Friday Humor: Darwin Awards, Part II . . .

1999-11-12 Thread John Hoffmann
Part II: 1999 Darwin awards . . . GRAVITY KILLS... A 22-year-old Reston, VA man was found dead after he tried to use octopus straps (the stretchy little ropes with hooks on each end) to bungee jump off a 70 foot railroad trestle, police said. Fairfax County (Virginia) police said Eric A. B

RE: MI Info Tool problem with multiple records

1999-11-12 Thread Miller, Scott
Owen, To get more information about each selected record or item, just click on that item from within the information tool list window. If you want to see all of the data attributes of all six records use the "marquee select tool" and select the six items that you want. Then go to the "Window"

Re: MI Info Tool problem with multiple records

1999-11-12 Thread Richard Greenwood
>I'm using MapInfo v5.5 under Win95. I have a selectable table with a >variable number of objects in each area. When I click over the area with >the info tool, the info tool list-window comes up, and has one reference >for each object associated with that area. However, the >object-information

RE: MI - selecting number within text

1999-11-12 Thread Timothy Chinchen Cen-IT
A bit long winded but try using the following in the SQL Select selection criteria:- MY_TABLE Like "%1%" or MY_TABLE Like "%2%" or MY_TABLE Like "%3%" or MY_TABLE Like "%4%" or MY_TABLE Like "%5%" or MY_TABLE Like "%6%" or MY_TABLE Like "%7%" or MY_TABLE Like "%8%" or MY_TABLE Like "%9%" or MY_TA

RE: MI Supports Dual Processing?

1999-11-12 Thread Lepage, Mike L (Mike)** CTR **
I have a quad 550MHZ machine, and I find that both mapinfo and vertical mapper will only use one cpu at a time. I even find that if I open a second window for mapinfo it degrades the performance of the first mapinfo session. (I have 2gb of ram so don't think that is a problem.) -Original Me

Re: MI - selecting number within text

1999-11-12 Thread Chris Martin
Search for records with characters in that have ascii values in the appropriate range (I'm not sure off the top of my head what the acsii values for 0-9 are). This could be done easily in MapBasic, but I'm not sure about in MI Pro directly... [England 2 - Scotland 0, I reckon] > This message

MI Dim Problem

1999-11-12 Thread Xu Xiaoning
Hello,All: thanks all! I have resolve "hexagon" problem! :-) but now i have another problem,please help me! In VB5 , ... mapinfo.do "dim rangelimits() as float" mapinfo.do "dim brushstyles() as Brush" ... it runs OK! but in Delph4 , ... mapinfo.do('Dim rangel

MI Info Tool problem with multiple records

1999-11-12 Thread owenm
Hello, everyone. I'm using MapInfo v5.5 under Win95. I have a selectable table with a variable number of objects in each area. When I click over the area with the info tool, the info tool list-window comes up, and has one reference for each object associated with that area. However, the object

MI - selecting number within text

1999-11-12 Thread Tom Manson
Title: MI - selecting number within text Dear list, Second problem in two days, so here goes. I have a character column, although some of the records have numbers in them. How do I go about just selecting those records with a number in the text? My records look something like this:

RE: MI Accessing Workspaces served by an NT Version 5.5

1999-11-12 Thread Thake, Peter
Hi Michael, Don't know the answer to this one (I didn't know there was a Mapinfo Server mode!) but try opening up some of the .wor files in a text editor like notepad and see what is going on. The .wor will show the paths to the tables being opened: perhaps Mapinfo on the server is saving the p

printer setting in MI 5.5 workspace

1999-11-12 Thread ph
One of the new features in MI 5.5 is the printer setting for each layout which follows in the workspaces like: Set Window FrontWindow() Printer Name "\\BCAARNT1\Fiery ZX DocuColor 40 v2.1" Orientation Landscape Copies 1 The first problem is if the client doesn't have a printer like this the wo

RE: MI Supports Dual Processing?

1999-11-12 Thread Christian Käfling
I talked to MapInfo Corp about this a year ago. They said that MI doesn't support dual processing. Running a lot of heavy stuff, I can tell that MI only uses on of my processors. When will MI support multi-processing, can MapInfo answer that? / Cris -Original Message- From: Laith Wark