Carolyn,
You are correct that the Clip Region Operation is just a visual display
time operation.
If you want to save a copy of the table that is clipped against some
boundary, then your best bet is to use the Erase Outside functionality.
Select all of the objects in the table to be clipped (the
The Clip Regions feature of MI Pro has been extensively changed and
improved for MI Pro 6.0. The problems that existed with Clip Region in MI
Pro 5.5 have been eliminated.
The Clip Region functionality in MI Pro 5.5 and prior versions essentially
did an Erase Outside operation. In MI Pro 5.5,
Malcolm,
There is a new feature in MI Pro 6.0 called Objects Enclose which may help.
It will take a set of polylines, and produce a set of regions. Each
polyline need not form a closed object. The feature will take some set of
polylines (e.g., 3 or 4 polylines) and produce a region object that
Yannick,
What version of MI Pro are you using?
In the soon to be released MI Pro 6.0, the Clip Region feature has a new
option which allows the Windows Display Device to perform the Clip Region
functionality. There is a good chance that using this feature will allow
your scheme to work.
If yo
Ian,
This example is fixable, at least back to MI Pro 5.0 functionality, and we
will look into incorporating it into future MI Pro releases.
However, I'll make a distinction between "One Buffer for Each Object" and
"One Buffer for All Objects". This functionality will be fairly easy to
change f
Anthony,
The Arc/Info E00 file is an ascii export file which is kind of like a MapInfo
MIF file and a MID file combined into one. The E00 file is divided into
sections, with the INFO section being roughly equivalent to the MID file. But,
based on the ArcLink msg file you included, there is no
