MI Integrated mapping

2000-03-01 Thread Harald Schoelzel
When I try to open a table through an application that after I have correctly launched an instance of Mapinfo through: Set MyMapInfo = createobject("MapInfo.Application") and I try to open a table through msg = "Open Table " msg = msg & msg = msg & msg = msg & MapNameArray(i, 1, Brow

MI Using Variables with Type Statements

2000-03-01 Thread Scott Barling
Hi everybody! I'm having a bit of a problem here and am after some HELP! Below is some code, the top part of which is a working version, the bottom part is what I want to use to achieve the same result as the top part. Dim MapSetup As String Dim MapSetupx, MapSetupy, MapSetupz As Float Dim MapS

MI Email problems

2000-03-01 Thread Stephen Wallace
To the list I have just been informed by our Internet service provider that in the process of " upgrading for our convenience " a portion of our email may gone missing . If any one has tried to contact Global GeoScience directly in the last 10 days and has not got a reply, I apologize and ask you

Re: MI MapInfo ProViewer Problem

2000-03-01 Thread Mats Elfström
Install Proviewer version 5.5 at the client and forget about 4.5. "Jones, Ioan" wrote: > > Here goes.. > > I have a client who doesn't have MI but wants to view thematics we have > prepared for him. However when he tries to open TABs and WORs (Saved to MI > 4.5) using his copy of ProViewer he g

MI Sum: Text Object to an attribute field

2000-03-01 Thread Robert Wilson
Thank you to Brian Forrester and Jacques Paris for their solution. You can use ObjectInfo(obj,3) in the update column expression. You need to make sure you are updating to a text field. Also you will need to make sure that you only have text objects in the table (you could do a sub select to ge

MI Re: Creating buffers with square ends

2000-03-01 Thread Dan Munson
Real easy. MapBasic createrectangle statement update points set obj = createrectangle (centroidx(obj),centroidy(obj)) Good luck - Original Message - From: Lavoie, Claude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 11:20 AM Subject: MI: Creating buffers w

MI: Creating buffers with square ends

2000-03-01 Thread Lavoie, Claude
Second posting; suspect first one did not get through. I am looking for a utility that creates buffers with square ends rather than round. Any ideas? TIA, _ Claude Lavoie Service du soutien à la clientèle Direction des technologies de l'information

RE: MI Making layers invisible to the user in the MapX environment

2000-03-01 Thread Peter . Elphick
Why not create a second map control which handles the layer, but is not visible to the user? -Original Message-From: Gareth Hardman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 01 March 2000 07:25To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: MI Making layers invisible to the user in the MapX environmen

MI Text obj to attribute field

2000-03-01 Thread Robert Wilson
Hi all, Does anyone know how to get the text from a text object into a field in the database. I am sure I did this a number of years ago but can't seem to recall the process. TIA, Bob Wilson Spatial Sciences Research Center Indiana University of Pennsylvania -

Re: MI MapInfo ProViewer Problem

2000-03-01 Thread Severin Roberts
PowerPoint is a great container/storage unit for maps. Copy map window, paste special, paste as picture. You can also copy them and paste special into Word, Crop the image in PowerPoint, Zoom. Interesting. It seems to hold the integrity of the images pretty darned well. And they print really w

MI MapInfo ProViewer Problem

2000-03-01 Thread Jones, Ioan
Here goes.. I have a client who doesn't have MI but wants to view thematics we have prepared for him. However when he tries to open TABs and WORs (Saved to MI 4.5) using his copy of ProViewer he gets the error message: File is not a valid table, workspace or application I can open these using

MI Polygon smoothing

2000-03-01 Thread 52
Good day List, How to make MI smooth polygon, not polyline. I've tried to convert polygon to a polyline, smooth it and then turn it back, but it cancel smoothing. S -- Best regards, Sim Biodiversity Conservation Center, Moscow GIS Dept. ++7(095)-124-7934 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

MI Making layers invisible to the user in the MapX environment

2000-03-01 Thread Gareth Hardman
Fellow mappers,   We need to ensure that a certain map layer in our MapX app (developed in Visual C++) is invisible to the user. This layer is integral to our app - and needs to be read/write accessable by the system at all times. How can we ensure that it does NOT appear in the list of laye

MI MapBasicBeginner!!!

2000-03-01 Thread Haavard Bøgh-Olsen
hello! I have not used MapBasic before and I am now planning to use it to customize MapInfo so that it will be easier to use for a "third person" I want to make a programinterface with only the nessesary functions available for his use. Questions: Is there any applications to use so that I d