Re: MI-L pulling start/end coords for lines/polylines

2004-08-26 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
You can search MI-L here for old messages: http://lists.directionsmag.com/discussion/search.php?f=7 The syntax for polylines is much different from that for lines: First x-node: ObjectNodeX(obj, 1, 1) Last x-node: ObjectNodeX(obj, 1, Objectinfo(obj,OBJ_INFO_NPNTS)) (similar for y).

RE: MI-L MBX Applications

2004-08-26 Thread Driver, Greg 9434
Andrew, I think the tool your looking for is on the MUGUKI site under the Utilities section - LayoutGrabber.mbx Greg -Original Message- From: Andrew Tracey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 August 2004 17:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI-L MBX Applications Thanks for the

MI-L MI Table to SVG: ObjectNode out of range error

2004-08-26 Thread Ben Crane
Hi all, This email is for anyone who has put together code for converting Tab files to SVG. I have put some code together for converting thematic maps into SVG maps with a legend, etc. But I have encountered a random problem. Every now and again, certain Tab files generate an ObjectNodeY: out of

RE: MI-L MI Table to SVG: ObjectNode out of range error

2004-08-26 Thread SCISOFT
Maybe you should look for open regions - use the Objects Check ... statement, or something else that looks for polygons that aren't closed? Ian Thomas GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia -Original Message- From: Ben Crane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2004 4:16 PM To:

RE: MI-L MI Table to SVG: ObjectNode out of range error

2004-08-26 Thread Ben Crane
SCISOFT, Done that already. I've checked the integrity of the data and even run a seperate MITAB to SVG test on the data and it worked like a charm...and that test was using the same code...What happens is that you select a series of tables, it creates the thematic maps and then SVG's them. I've

RE: MI-L Windows API constants for MapBasic

2004-08-26 Thread Bill Thoen
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Martin Higham wrote: The ultimate references are the header (*.h) files in the Platform SDK. This comes as part of Visual Studio, or can be freely downloaded from msdn. Header files are available? That's *exactly* what I was hoping to hear! Where are they? - Bill Thoen

RE: MI-L Windows API constants for MapBasic

2004-08-26 Thread Martin Higham
Go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ From the contents pane, choose Windows Development, and then Platform SDK. The download should contain lots of stuff in addition to the .h files (mainly geared to c/c++ dev). It looks like there's 100MB of sdk, 90MB of documentation and 10MB of sample

RE: MI-L RE : MI-L Updating column with pen style

2004-08-26 Thread Woody Woodruff
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MI-L Map Projection Help

2004-08-26 Thread Philip . Lesnik
Group, Can anyone tell me what map projection this US Severe Weather Map is in, in the link below. I can't figure it out. http://www.wunderground.com/severe.asp Thanks for any help. Philip Lesnik Research Systems

Re: MI-L Map Projection Help

2004-08-26 Thread Greg Phillips
Looks like a Lambert Conic Conformal Projection map of the US. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26/08/2004 15:41:07 Group, Can anyone tell me what map projection this US Severe Weather Map is in, in the link below. I can't figure it out. http://www.wunderground.com/severe.asp Thanks for any help.

RE: MI-L MBX Applications

2004-08-26 Thread Alan Gunn
This tool you mention, LayoutGrabber.mbx, sounds interesting. I fail to see a utilities section on www.muguki.com. Must you be a member and shell out to reap the benefits of LAYOUTGRABBER? -Original Message- From: Driver, Greg 9434 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26,

Re: MI-L MI Table to SVG: ObjectNode out of range error

2004-08-26 Thread Lars V. Nielsen (GisPro)
Hi Ben, Have you considered if it's a bogus error message, so what's really wrong is that you're breaking the 32k barrier for a MB string variable ? Or maybe if your variables Var_D2 and Var_E2 are smallints ? They need to be integers, at least in Pro 4.5+. Btw: there seems to be a small flaw

Re: MI-L MI Table to SVG: ObjectNode out of range error

2004-08-26 Thread Ben Crane
lars, Have you considered if it's a bogus error message, so what's really wrong is that you're breaking the 32k barrier for a MB string variable ? There are only a few nodes (maximum 20) that need to be written, then the string is over-written with new data...I would be very surprised if the

MI-L Help: not all polygons are being selected

2004-08-26 Thread Gregory Trizisky, CBO
Using MI7, with they layer I want to select, selectable; using marquee, radius, polygon, or region select tools, only some of the objects are selected, I then have to go and select the rest manually and add them those already selected. Any idea why certain polygons wont be selected? I even tried

Re: MI-L Help: not all polygons are being selected

2004-08-26 Thread Lars V. Nielsen (GisPro)
Two possibilities from the top of my head: 1. the data is corrupt, having the centroid placed significantly outside the regions - manual selection requires selection of centroids 2. some of the regions are duplicated - multiple selected regions on top of each other cancel each other out

MI-L DWG to MID/MIF...

2004-08-26 Thread Driver, Greg 9434
I've just been asked to convert a DWG file but when I try and convert it using UT it's failing. The error message I'm getting at the end of the log file is : FME_GEN_DEST_GROUP_NAME_PREFIX statement must be of the form 'FME_GEN_DEST_GROUP_NAME_PREFIX prefix_value' Program Terminating

MI-L Save TAB v100 to v300

2004-08-26 Thread SCISOFT
This came up recently, but wasn't fully answered or resolved. I have some (1993, 1994 vintage) MapInfo tables that show in the TAB file - !table !version 100 etc When I save (under another filename - Save Copy As..) from MI v6.5, the TAB is still v100, and this causes a problem when

MI-L Truncated fieldnames - TAB

2004-08-26 Thread SCISOFT
Does anyone know how and why MapInfo TAB files (v300) which have fieldnames longer than 10 characters (when examined in MapInfo, with Table Maintenance Table Structure) have the fieldname truncated to 10 characters when saved out of MapInfo? I'm aware the old DBF specification limited

MI-L Doctoring v100 TAB files

2004-08-26 Thread SCISOFT
I've discovered a method that may be good enough, to allow MapInfo TAB files that were created as version 100 to pass as valid version 300 (current as of MapInfo v7 ??). I say pass as valid version 300 TAB files, because of course if they were created as v100 (1.00) the feature set for the

MI-L Thematic coloring of column values,

2004-08-26 Thread Jess Wellman
Hi everyone, Great resource here. I want to display the value in a column at the point for that instance, and then color the font that is used to display the value in the column according to a range of values. For example, I have a column called chemistry that has a value. I want to

MI-L MI locks up after moving labels, and returning to output scale view.

2004-08-26 Thread Jess Wellman
Hi, I am manually moving labels that overlap. When I am fininshed with an area, I zoom previous to return to my output scale view. Most of the time, if I save my workspace I am ok, but if I do not save my workspace after each change in view, the program locks up, and must be stoped with the

MI-L Layout Scale seams to continuously revert

2004-08-26 Thread Jess Wellman
Hi, When I double click on my layout window to check the scale right before printing in gives me a number like 1:5355. I put in 1:5000. Then with out any other actions I double click again, and the scale is back to 1:5355, not the 1:5000 that I just put in. This does not make me confident

RE: MI-L MI locks up after moving labels, and returning to output scale view.

2004-08-26 Thread Susan Yu
I have the same problem too, especially if the map has lots of details. I have no solution except to remember to click on the deselect button, and saving the workspace often. For good measure, if I tried to deselect the label I just moved and it still looks hi-lighted, I do a re-draw or

RE: MI-L MI locks up after moving labels, and returning to output scale view.

2004-08-26 Thread David Reid
Sorry, I should have specified where the accelleration slider is located. You can acess the display hardware accelleration slider in Win98 and 2000 (and I think NT) like so: Right click on blank space of Desktop, click Properties Click the Settings Tab and the Advanced button lower right.

RE: MI-L Windows API constants for MapBasic

2004-08-26 Thread Bill Thoen
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Martin Higham wrote: Go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ From the contents pane, choose Windows Development, and then Platform SDK. The download should contain lots of stuff in addition to the .h files (mainly geared to c/c++ dev). It looks like there's

RE: MI-L Multiple Controls in a Dialog Box

2004-08-26 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
Hi Jon, without having seenn your code, I guess the problem might be that you are trying to create the control dynamically after the dialog has been shown. This is not possible using MapBasic, so you have to create the dialog with a number of controls - as many as you think there might be

RE: MI-L Windows API constants for MapBasic

2004-08-26 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
Have you installed the SP2 for WinXP ? And MapInfo is still working ? I guess that can only mean that MapInfo is not seen as a threat to Windows XP ;-) Peter Horsbøll Møller GIS Developer Geographical Information IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 DK-5260 Odense S. Denmark Tel +45 6311 4900

RE: MI-L Save TAB v100 to v300

2004-08-26 Thread SCISOFT
Thank you for that, Eric - that's exactly what I need, and so easy to do by typing into the MapBasic Window. Ian Thomas GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 August 2004 6:51 AM To: SCISOFT Subject: Re:

Re: MI-L Doctoring v100 TAB files

2004-08-26 Thread David Baker
On 27 Aug 2004 at 1:48, SCISOFT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only current reason for doing this, as far as I know, is to allow Manifold System Release 6.00 to read TAB files (TAB, ID, DAT, MAP) that were created as MapInfo v100 format. Maybe we can ask Manifold to support this older format?

Re: MI-L Map Projection Help

2004-08-26 Thread David Baker
Looks like pixels to me. Dave On 26 Aug 2004 at 15:47, Greg Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like a Lambert Conic Conformal Projection map of the US. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26/08/2004 15:41:07 Group, Can anyone tell me what map projection this US Severe Weather Map is in,