MI-L Run Access Report from MapInfo

Dear List, I would like to open a MS Access Report from within MapInfo, passing an attribute from the selected object in MapInfo to the query behind the Report. What is the best way of doing this, using DDE, OLE or another system? Could it be run from HotLink? Any suggestions as to which way I

Re: MI-L Thematic Map Question, Individual Regions by Value

Hi Michael, If two neighbouring zones actually have the same individual value, there is of course no way to give them different colours, unless you don't care about the individual values and really just want neighbouring zones to be different. ToolBox from RouteWare has however a function to ach

MI-L MapInfo Grid files (.mig) and MAPX

I would like to use MapInfo grid files (.mig) produced with MapInfo Pro 6.5 in a VC++ MAPX application. The .mig files were produced from NIMA DTED source files (elevation data) using the MI Pro Grid tool. My question is how do I get to the elevation data stored in the .mig files from a MAPX a

MI-L Thematic Map Question, Individual Regions by Value

When creating a thematic map, color shaded by individual values, is there any way to ensure that MapInfo does not color two adjacent regions the same color? I'm creating a map of my county's 61 school zones, and I'm wondering if there is any easier way then to manually change the colors of adjace

MI-L Cannot perform edit

Hi, We have a strange problem occuring only when there is intensive work between three users on a Novel Network. Regularly we have the message: Cannot Perform Edit. Someone else is editing the file. There is only one person trying to edit the file but there is another one editing another t

MI-L offset polyline tool

Has anyone heard of or know a MapBasic script or can give me some hints on how to setup a tool that would offset a polyline by a specified distance on a specified side? Thanks in advance! Jeffrey Van Etten ++ LBI - Street Management GIS Specialist

RE: MI-L Ordering Objects in the same Layer

It may be true immediately, but save the table and reopen it and there is no guarantee that the order will be the same. In fact there is no way to specify the order of display of objects in the table; all is controlled by the graphic engine that fetches the objects according to what has to be disp

RE: MI-L Ordering Objects in the same Layer

I've always found that the most recently edited object goes to the top. Try doing some minor modification, then un-doing it, and that object should come to the top. Good luck! -Original Message- From: HANNA MICHAEL (TOR1MMH) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 9:07

MI-L Ordering Objects in the same Layer

Hello, I have two overlapping objects, belonging to the same table. How can I order them, so that the one I want is on top? Is there any way to do this, other than selecting the top ones and applying them as a separate layer? Thanks in advance, Michael Hanna Senior Technician, Industrial Engi

RE: MI-L Strange Problem- addendum

It was certainly not set up to be modified on two computers at the same time. But, it thought it was definately capable (from what I learned in the MapInfo courses I took) of being open on more than one computer, as long as it was only being modified on one at a tiem. I've been doing this for a

MI-L SUM/QUERY

Thanks to Vinesh and Ian Rudd to provide the solution, which I worked it out myself as well. My question was: I have a table containing county boundaries and another one containing postcodes. I would like to query the tables to derive postcodes contained within each county boundaries. Could

MI-L SUM: MapX Mobile - "Weekend Blues"

Thanks to Ian Erickson, Eric Blasenheim, David Baker .. I could finally run the MapX Mobile from my machine with the least efforts. Though not the problem faced by me, but some do face the problem that the regsvrce.exe takes DOS path for registering DLL's (Thnx Ian) The key was that HPC Pro

RE: MI-L MB: makecustomsymbol color

The problem was not with the settings but simply with the symbol name: I was using "AMBU1-64.BMP" that I found on my 6.0 CustSymb directory; I was however running 7beta and after Warren's message I did some checking and I discovered that all the -64 symbols have disappeared! Hence the black hole (

RE: MI-L MB: makecustomsymbol color

Hello Jacques, To keep the colours in your custom symbol bitmap, you need to use a customstyle value of either 0 or 1. Use 0 if you want white pixels to be transparent. Use 1 if you want white pixels to be opaque. Both of these modes effectively ignore the colour parameter specified. If you wa

MI-L MB: makecustomsymbol color

I am stumped with that one: how can I generate a symbol using MakeCustomSymbol() that will not be a square of a plain color? One of the arguments of that function is “color” (that will fill in the square) and I do not know how to set it (together with “customstyle”) to get the original colored des

MI-L MB code in MapInfo-L postings

Hello all, I just thought I would mention that quite a few mail gateways now seem to think that MapBasic code listed in postings to members and MapInfo-L contains JavaScript or VB and is rejected. Here's an example I got this morning when making a comment about a code sample: ---8<---Snip---8<--

RE: MI-L Strange Problem- addendum

Hello Evan, I would suggest that you just avoid this scenario completely. I don't think that Pro's TAB file set was ever designed for concurrent users. Certainly I've spoken to a lot of people over the years who have had problems in this area and I don't recall anyone finding a first class soluti

RE: MI-L Getting values from the selected row into an Array

Hello Peter, Thomas, In your code below, note that you'll probably need a special case for handling date types too, using formatdate$(). Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd. http://www.europa-tech.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: MI-L E-Mailing MapInfo based tables to ESRI people.

Hello Alicia, Can I offer one more tip on converting TABs to SHPs with the Universal Translator... It's important to note that UT does not build a Shapefile spatial index. This is pretty essential if the data you are sending is more than trivial. ArcView users can open the data as a table (like a

MI-L QUERY

Dear List I have a table containing county boundaries and another one containing postcodes. I would like to query the tables to derive postcodes contained within each county boundaries. Could somebody help me with an SQL query or suggest a way to query these tables. Many thanks and kind regar

Re: MI-L Polygon direction

Even faster methods are available for calculation of polygon direction: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/algorithms-faq/ (160 Kb text document) Look at subject 2.07. Kind regards Uffe Kousgaard www.routeware.dk - Original Message - From: "Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd." <[EMAIL

RE: MI-L spatial averaging

Hello Niklas, One of the "top tips" MapInfo sometimes gives at conferences is a method of averaging coordinate using a SQL query and the average function, avg(). For a table "MyTab" which contains points, you can determine the average by: select avg(centroidx(obj)), avg(centroidy(obj)) from MyTa

RE: MI-L Polygon direction

Hello Robert, The standard method to determine polygon orientation is indeed by calculating the area. Depending on the exact implementation of the formula, counter/anti-clockwise polygon have a negative area and clockwise are positive (or vica-versa). The only optimisation that I am aware of is t

Re: MI-L File extensions

These are ArcInfo files and can be imported into mapinfo with the arclink tool. The arclink tool is no longer installed by default, so you may have to find your mapinfo cd-rom again. Kind regards Uffe Kousgaard www.routeware.dk - Original Message - From: "Paul Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

MI-L File extensions

Hello All, I have just downloaded some data from http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/ and when the files are unzipped using WinZip there are files with extension .e00 Does anyone know what these are and how to use them with Mapinfo 6.0? Thanks.paul -

RE: MI-L JPG DPI Resoltion

JPG DPI ResoltionHello Brian, I believe only TIFF images store a record of the DPI value in the image file itself. For all other image file formats, the DPI value and image size (specified in inches or another Pro paper unit) is used to calculate the output image size. Typical "screen" DPI's used

MI-L BS7666 toolbox

Bill et al, Over hear in the UK our national standards are prefixed with 'BS' - British Standard, and given a standards number, in this case '7666'. The BS7666 standard is the standard for creation of address gazetteers and the 'Toolbox' is a piece of software commissioned by MI Corp to allow cre

RE: MI-L Seamless Problems!

Ioan A few things you can check. Check that the file name in the TAB file (which you can open in a notepad) matches the path to the image. Can you open the individual table which is causing the problem on the PC (ie not the other ones, just the one in the error message)? The image formats are an

MI-L Landscape Challenge

I am working on landscape quality maps using MapInfo. We embarked on a project to analyse the landscape, we plotted all our studies onto different tables divided in two different themes, Man made features and Natural features. These two themes were further subdivided under different headings such

MI-L Seamless Problems!

Hello there We're experiencing difficulties with a seamless table which behaves perfectly on most PCs but on one machine in particular refuses to cooperate. To start with things appear OK but when part way through opening the seamless table the following message appears: "Raster Engine was un

RE: MI-L JPG DPI Resolution

Brian As far as I am aware MI produces JPG files at the same resolution as your screen. Or something like that so producing a JPG of a layout kind of looks rubbish. To avoid this produce your JPG at a larger page size e.g. A4 goes to A3. That gives a reasonable quality for printing etc. But both M