Re: [MI-L] Looping in MapInfo MapBasic Window

2006-09-03 Thread Bill Thoen
Looks like several messages posted several days ago are finally coming up... Anyway, you can't do any looping or branching in the MapBasic window; you have to get MapBasic to do that, sorry. On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:35:07AM -0400, Hughes, Colleen / Don Mitchell wrote: Hi All, I'm slowly

Re: [MI-L] Looping in MapInfo MapBasic Window

2006-09-03 Thread Trey Pattillo
leaving the mapbasic window open is one of the best ways to learn what is going on behind the scene a big drawback is that some the most complex commands, such as changing an object style [in your case], is not displayed so you will need some help there and also a list of the command values

Re: [MI-L] Looping in MapInfo MapBasic Window

2006-09-02 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
From: Hughes, Colleen / Don Mitchell Is it possible to perform looping or to test for things (like If Then) from the MapBasic window. No, but you can use automation, i.e. use VB for instance for calling the mapbasic commands and then use VB logic for looping and if-then. Examples on how to do

[MI-L] Looping in MapInfo MapBasic Window

2006-09-01 Thread Hughes, Colleen / Don Mitchell
Hi All, I'm slowly trying to learn MapBasic with the MapBasic window in MapInfo and the User Guides for MapBasic that I downloaded. I'm trying to change the symbol for a selection using mapbasic. When I look up the commands in the reference guide, it states that the Do While statement

MI-L LOOPING

2005-10-13 Thread John Polasky
Good afternoon- A very straightforward question...is it at all possible to execute a loop in the mapbasic command window. I thought that I had once stumbled on to method for doing just that. If it is possible, could someone refresh my memory with a sample? Thanks! -John

RE: MI-L LOOPING

2005-10-13 Thread Jakob Lanstorp
/ From: John Polasky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 10/13/2005 22:31 To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: MI-L LOOPING Good afternoon- A very straightforward question...is it at all possible to execute a loop in the mapbasic command window. I thought that I had once stumbled

MI-L Looping

2004-11-30 Thread John Polasky
Dear List- Is it possible to run any kind of simple looping through the MapBasic command window in MapInfo?? I thought I tried it successfully once before, but can't remember for sure. If it is possible, can someone please share the trick? Thanks! -John

RE: MI-L Looping

2004-11-30 Thread Darrin Clement
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI-L Looping Dear List- Is it possible to run any kind of simple looping through the MapBasic command window in MapInfo?? I thought I tried it successfully once before, but can't remember for sure

MI-L looping

2004-07-09 Thread Daniel York
Dear List I am doing a For loop and wish to do similar to the following but struggling with syntax mapbasic. Can anybody provide any advice. For I = 1 to Number_Of_Tables If object_name Point Then Resume the loop Skip etc Else Do a series of other commands Loop Thankyou Daniel York

Re: MI-L looping

2004-07-09 Thread David Baker
On 9 Jul 2004 at 12:17, Daniel York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing a For loop and wish to do similar to the following but struggling with syntax mapbasic. Can anybody provide any advice. For I = 1 to Number_Of_Tables Do you want number of tables, or number or records in a table? If you

MI-L Looping through lists from MapBasic Window

2001-12-13 Thread PEM
You are right it's alooping proces and the MapBasic window doesn't support this, but you can do it some how anyway. The Loop function in the MapBasic window is called Enter. Do like this in the MapBasic window write the following: ** Dim nZip As