MI-L: MB: IGNORE: Opening Notepad during MBX run.

2001-03-28 Thread Michelle Smith
OK. Duh. It's in the manual, it even gives notepad.exe as an example. "Run Program". Probably could have GUESSED that. I'll crawl back under my stone. Thanks anyhow. M - Original Message - From: "Michelle Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MapInfo Discussion Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

MI-L: MB: Opening Notepad during MBX run.

2001-03-28 Thread Michelle Smith
Hi folks, I've written a nice little utility which is saving my colleagues a lot of time & stress. However, the icing on the cake would be to have a 'reporting' facility. Nothing fancy - I'm just want to write a few strings to a txt file summarising what happened during processing. I can write

MI-L out of disk space on edit

2001-03-28 Thread GeoInfo Solutions
Regarding out of disk space errors on editing a polygon and adding values in a info tool window... i have noticed that i get the "oods while editing error message" when i try to enter data for a newly created polygon. i'm allowed to delete the object or move it, but when i try to enter the stree

MI-L FYI CrimeMap Tutorial Now Available

2001-03-28 Thread Neil Havermale
-Original Message- From: Eric Jefferis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CRIMEMAP:545] CrimeMap Tutorial Now Available I am very pleased to announce the release of the CrimeMap Tutorial. In order to meet the demand for mo

MI-L Map Excel

2001-03-28 Thread Neil Havermale
I was wondering if anyone out there may know of a site or reference materials dealing with use of Excel's Map component? I believe at one time MapInfo had an area of tips and some additional tools for these entry level users. Any thing else out there ? MidNight Mapper aka Neil __

MI-L Update object style

2001-03-28 Thread Steve Carlsson
Hi Listers This question is a bit brief, but forgive me I am knew to MapBasic and dont really know what to ask Here goes In mapbasic is there a way to do a bulk update to the style objects. That is, if I have a selection of many map objects and want to update the style for all in the sel

RE: MI-L MB Application run error in Proviewer

2001-03-28 Thread Martin Roundill
te is greater than 28 March 2001 you could add the following line to the workspace. run command left$("End MapInfo",1000*int(curdate()>"20010328")) You can use this same idea to provide lots of intelligence into ProViewer. I have a script (workspace file) that when open

MI-L running mapinfo on Mac OS

2001-03-28 Thread tony davidson
hello Listers In a desperate attempt to be rid of Windows I'm contemplating an investment in the new Mac. Unfortunately Mapinfo has not continued its development of Mac compliant software for some years. I would like to run Mapinfo 6 under Mac OS9 (with plenty of RAM) using PC emulator software.

MI-L

2001-03-28 Thread Andrew Hare
A big Thanks to Simon Nitz, Jacques Paris, and Dave Annan who helped clear up that Mystery with the Road Labels Summary Don't pack your road table and expect the labels to match the road. Regards Andrew Hare GIS Officer Waimate District Council PO Box 122 Waimate New Zealand Ph: (64 3) 689 80

MI-L US Database

2001-03-28 Thread Dyan Catamaran
Dear users I am looking for a US Municipalities database. It should contain municipality graphic boundaries plus demographics. It would be interested if the municipalities have some database for green area / capita. I would like to estimate the total green area (including wilderness, parks an

Re: MI-L Column Swapping?

2001-03-28 Thread Lena and Dmitri Bagh
1) Add additional column to Streets table - e.g. TempFrom 2) Select all reversed streets - let us call temporary query table ReversedStreets 3) Update ReversedStreets Set TempFrom = From 4) Update ReversedStreets Set From = To 5) Update ReversedStreets Set To = TempFrom 6) Drop TempFrom column fro

MI-L ECW data provider for MapXtreme Java

2001-03-28 Thread CAB
Dear listers The current version af MapXtreme Java (3.1) does not include a data provider (handler) for the Enhanced Wavelet Compression format (ECW), but fortunately Ermapper provides an ECW Java SDK. My question is whether anyone know of an existing data provider for the ECW-format - free or f

MI-L Column Swapping?

2001-03-28 Thread Morrier, Steve
Is there any way to swap the values in one column with the values of another? I have a huge street file database and the "to" and "from" values for some of the streets are reversed. Besides selecting the streets in question, deleting them from the original table and just changing the column headin

RE: MI-L Another OLE Problem

2001-03-28 Thread Colin Henderson
I have managed to solve this problem myself. This is the problem/solution: Problem: I have created a MapInfo object within a VB app. This was done using the "GetObject" method in order to control an already running instance of MapInfo. When I set the object to nothing and close my VB app I hav

MI-L Another OLE problem

2001-03-28 Thread Colin Henderson
I have a similar problem! I have a program that runs when MapInfo is already running. So I create my MapInfo object using the "GetObject" method. My problem is that when I terminate my VB app control is not relinquished to MapInfo. Each time I try and do something with MapInfo, such as open a t

MI-L unable to open layout

2001-03-28 Thread Isaac Wiley
Dear group, I am pretty new at this, so it might be a simple question. Can anyone help me figure what happened to my layout? Last week I did a few (3) Query select commands (SQL Select). I needed the total length of "cable" in a table. Everything was fine until I opened the layout the next da

RE: MI-L Mapinfo and OLE problem

2001-03-28 Thread DORIER Herve
Hi I remember that I had this problem too. I think that this problem appends when your program open a MI window (and let it opened) such as a legend and when the link between MI and your VB program is not correct. Check your SET APPLICATION WINDOWS ... (must be done 1 time only) and SET NEXT D

Re: MI-L ECW raster files

2001-03-28 Thread CDR Group
Karen Our OSBITMAP utility will automatically register ecw files (and tiffs and bmps) that have been named with the appropriate Ordnance Survey filename convention e.g. SK1234NE. Will be in touch. Regards John Ievers CDR Group www.cdrgroup.co.uk -Original Message- From: Karen Purdy <[

MI-L Mapinfo and OLE problem

2001-03-28 Thread MAGS (Mapping Global Solutions)
Dear Listers! I am having problems to clear Mapinfo instance within a Visual Basic = application using MapInfo as an Ole object. I have the next code: Global MI as Object Set MI =3D CreateObject("MapInfo.Application") . . . Set MI =3D Nothing The problem is that it seems it depend on what ex

MI-L Re: MI Digest V1 #291

2001-03-28 Thread Miles Gabriel
Karen, If you have ECW files which were compressed from tif or jpeg files with their corresponding world files then MapInfo should read these and they should be registered. The only reasons I can think they might not be is if the ECWs were created from images without world files or that your

Ynt: MI-L ECW raster files

2001-03-28 Thread Ahmet Dabanli
I've written a MB for same purpose i had a grid and have eight columns for coordinates of 4 corner of each grid and one column that contains grid name same as image name so the program creates TAB files for images with 4 approx points for registration. After cerating TAB files i 've opened them

MI-L Re: MI Digest V1 #291

2001-03-28 Thread Miles Gabriel
Karen, If you have ECW files which were compressed from tif or jpeg files with their corresponding world files then MapInfo should read these and they should be registered. The only reasons I can think they might not be is if the ECWs were created from images without world files or that your

MI-L geocode

2001-03-28 Thread Marco Motta
Hi all, =20 I've this problem. I have a street-map with Addresses and House numbers. The type of the house numbers columns is Char. In these columns there are many * symbol, meaning that the house numbering follows (without knowing the last house number of an edge and the first house number of t

MI-L mapping file spec for CE4 software

2001-03-28 Thread Lepton Software Exports & Research (P) Ltd.
Does anybody have specifications on format for input mapping files for CE4, RF planning tool from lucent technologies ? bye. -- sonam _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com __

MI-L ECW raster files

2001-03-28 Thread Karen Purdy
Please can you help... I have a v. large number of *.ECW images to use in MapInfo. I can get them to display in a map window - but not registered. The the files all have corresponding *.ERS files with resolution & co-ordinate information, so the question is - Is there anyway I can convert these

Re: MI-L selecting against block points

2001-03-28 Thread Caroline Hilton
Eric I'm not sure I understand what you're doing. Are you just trying to select all the points which lie within a single polygon? If so, you can use the 'boundary select' tool (the one to the left of the deselct tool' in MI6), which allows you to click in a region, and it selects all the objects w