MI-L Individual value theme with Mapx

2002-04-05 Thread Michel Van Asten
Hi, I need to show the distribution of newspaper with mapX using a particular symbol for each paper... When I use the code below I got region filled with colors !!! If somebody has an idea, indvalcount = thProp.IndividualValueCategories.count For i = 1 To indvalcount With

Re: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Waynecpa1
Maybe I am in the minority, but so far Mapinfo 6.5 and my XP are doing fine. I have 128 RAM; P4/1.2ghz. I do not know if Mapinfo is 100% XP certified. Maybe ver. 7.0 Wayne Bradley, P.P., AICP Elizabeth, NJ 07201

MI-L MapInfo and administrative rights

2002-04-05 Thread Jeffrey Van Etten
Does anybody know whether there are any implications for users of MapInfo 6.5 and/or MapBasic 6.5 and not having administrative rights on the computer? Would like to know for future users who will need to be set up on these apps. Cheers, Jeffrey Van Etten

RE: MI-L MapInfo and administrative rights

2002-04-05 Thread DPC
I can't answer your question, but you should look up your license agreement to make sure you are allowed to use it the way you intend. The standard license says you can't use it the way you state (even if it's technically possible) unless you have purchased additional licenses - see section 2.

Re: MI-L georeferencing DXF file

2002-04-05 Thread Robert Karr
Dan: What you're seeing is almost assuredly a Bounds problem. Export 2 files in MIF/MID format, the problem TAB file and a TAB file that correctly displays at least roughly the same geographic area as the problem TAB file. Open both of the MIFs in a word processor as text files (I prefer

Re: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Bill Thoen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I am in the minority, but so far Mapinfo 6.5 and my XP are doing fine. I have 128 RAM; P4/1.2ghz. New machine pre-installed with XP, right? Not an upgrade from Win98? I do not know if Mapinfo is 100% XP certified. Maybe ver. 7.0 It is not certified for XP.

RE: MI-L MapInfo and administrative rights

2002-04-05 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Darren, Could you expand on what Section 2 of the EULA does not permit users with less than Admin privileges? There are no doubt thousands of corporate users in the world who fall into this category as companies lock down their workstations to prevent the casual installation of software. I

Re: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Simon Roy
I did not have any problem regarding MapInfo6.5/ WinXP Simon - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:04 AM Subject: Re: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP Maybe I am in the minority, but so far Mapinfo 6.5 and my XP are doing fine. I

Re: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Waynecpa1
New machine with ME. I upgraded to XP from that dreaded ME, then installed MI 6.5. I hope I am not jinxing my installation. Wayne Bradley, P.P., AICP Elizabeth, NJ 07201

RE: MI-L MapInfo and administrative rights

2002-04-05 Thread DPC
Hello, I knew this was going to draw some questions after I hit send... First of all I want to make sure Jeffrey and no one else thinks I was accusing him of intentionally doing anything wrong - I was simply making sure that he thought about it before doing it. I'm also far from an expert on

RE: MI-L MapInfo and administrative rights

2002-04-05 Thread Jeffrey Van Etten
Well to help clarify it even more. I was only asking this question purely on the basis of how Windows NT and MapInfo work together. I was just making sure that there were no implications of setting the users privileges on the workstation with MapInfo on to say a Power User or Guest and they

Re: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Robert Karr
Greetings Bill: My organization is assessing what an upgrade from NT4 to XP would mean to the software we currently use, and what that might mean to our work practices. Problems between MapInfo and XP would mean a more intensive review of my work practices and what would be needed to make sure

Re: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Bill Thoen
I have no plans to upgrade from Win98 and Win2000 to XP, because I see no compelling reason to do so, and several reasons not to. Why, exactly, do people feel they now must upgrade? I hope the reason isn't because everyone else is or Microsoft says so. I see XP as a big, fat, expensive threat to

RE: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Bean, Nick (N)
All, We too are about to embark on the thrilling adventures of upgrading from NT4 to XP, so from the general feeling is it doesn't sound too promising but then maybe it does. Does anyone have experience or had incidents with MapBasic or VB programs written on the NT platform and not working on

Re: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread John Haynes
On Tuesday of this week, I had a partner's table at an all day Microsoft seminar on XP. A significant amount of time was spent going over the truly impressive capabilities of MapPoint. I'm sure there is no connection between this new emphasis on Microsoft mapping and the current thread on

RE: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Matthew E. Hays
Bill I am impress that you pointed out PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. PostgreSQL is quit nice. -Original Message- From: Bill Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:01 AM To: Matthew E. Hays Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP Matthew E.

RE: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Jonathan Disher
-Original Message- From: Matthew E. Hays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Considering that XP is actually a point release (W2k is 5.0 XP is 5.1)... If it runs on 2k it should run on XP. The only issue that might happen is with the crayola puck GUI skinning, but you can turn that off.

RE: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Matthew E. Hays
Ok I do not want to start a flame war but... Linux was started in the early 90's as a project to port the educational OS MINIX to a 386 platform. Linux initally was not POSIX compliant... Just POSIX like. 35 years of development and or history would be the BSD or the SVR4 branches of UNIX.

RE: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Jonathan Disher
I am fully aware of Linux's origins. Originally a port of MINIX to i386 with some feature enhancement, it now has some parts from SysV, some from BSD. My point was not that Linux has a 35 year history, but that the generic UNIX OS concept (which encompases Linux, *BSD, BSD4.4, SunOS/Solaris,

MI-L GUI Skinning was RE: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread George Smith
So that some of us can take away something useful from this (and not just vicariously interesting) what is GUI skinning in XP and how do you turn it off? At 11:02 AM 04/05/2002 -0700, you wrote: Back onto the topic at hand. You turn off the GUI skinning in XP and MapInfo runs very well and

RE: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Robert Karr
Matthew: What is GUI skinning?? ...thanks ...Bob - List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MI-L MapInfo and administrative rights

2002-04-05 Thread Ken Hickey
I have MapInfo 6.5 set up on my Win2000 machine have no problem changing setting etc only logged in as a power user. Under v6.5 settings for each user are stored in their own C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\MapInfo folder,.

Re: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread marc . plato
I like many, are finding it hard to upgrade on OS every 2 years! That said, I and several others have upgraded to XP on new machines either just purchased or that we had enough knowledge to put together. XP does have many advantages over earlier versions, and it will just like Windows 3.2 or 95,

RE: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Matthew E. Hays
The New XP Explorer has a XML processor in it so you can change your GUI interface (hence the skinning) The brightly colored 'Toothpaste' theme that is standard on XP (The Big red close button... And so on) is the Skin, the skinning is applying this file to the GUI. You load the 'classic'

MI-L georeferencing DXF file

2002-04-05 Thread Dan Van Dorn
Thanks Robert, Gilbert, and Erin! I'll be trying all of you suggestions. Dan Dan Van Dorn, cartographer Map Link 805-692-6777 x172

MI-L Cloning legend window

2002-04-05 Thread Dan_Page
I cloned a layout window which contains a thematic legend. In my cloned layout I would like to change or edit the thematic legend text/labels however at the same time keep the original legend as is in my original layout. Rather then having to go through the process of creating a second thematic

RE: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Cox, Stuart SRM:EX
I recently bought an HP Pavilion 7950 with ME installed. I like HP. I've used their products since the introduction of the HP35 in 1972. HPTI! The 7950 came with WinME. Both my vendor and HP said and supplied what I needed to have to upgrade to XP. Delivery of those supplies took about a

Fwd: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Waynecpa1
Marc: Well, I tried your solution on some software (including MS Access- importing problems under XP) using the compatibility feature. It works! How nice of MS. Ensuring backwards compatibility in an upgrade is a sign that a software developer cares about its customers. Wayne, P.P., AICP

MI-L I'm plotting on 2000

2002-04-05 Thread Tedde Roberts
Hey, thanks to all of you for your suggestions on getting me plotting again. AGAIN it is - I just plotted the most beautiful map, rasters on the bottom, seven layers of drawings on top and not one single big black blob! Don't know if this will help someone else out there but this is what I did

MI-L MapInfo WinXP

2002-04-05 Thread Richard Hammond
Let's take some time out for a reality check, shall we? I'll state up front that I have no real love for Bill Gates his empire. Having said that, let's go back over the diatribe levelled at MS in the last digest: Bill's making $US299 a copy of XP - well, damn me - isn't making a buck

MI-L Announcing the Launch of Portfolio 4.0

2002-04-05 Thread Amy Holland
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MI-L map info and XP

2002-04-05 Thread Figuers
Richard Hammond missed the biggest problem. If the problem was just MI or XP, then the cost would be reasonable. It is all the other stuff that you have to upgrade. I estimate that it would cost me about $10,000 if I went to XP. XP cut off support for many early digitizers and scanners

Re: MI-L MapInfo and Win XP

2002-04-05 Thread Kazuhiko Yamashita
Hi Matthew, I have connected MapInfo 6.5 with Postgresql-7.1.3 runnning on Redhat Linux 7.2 via ODBC driver. I have not tested enough but it works fine both in Japanese and English language at the moment. Bill I am impress that you pointed out PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. PostgreSQL is quit

RE: MI-L map info and XP - Drivers, redux

2002-04-05 Thread Figuers
gosh- it must be nice to be a consultant that can get by with just microsoft programs, and have so little competition that you can get away with overcharging the client to pay for all the fancy stuff. Unfortunately, some of us have lots of competition and have to have specilized software