Re: MI-L MapBasic Text object question

2005-06-20 Thread Phil Waight
The method I use is to recreate the object in memory using all the attributes of the object you're querying, at its shifted position. oText = CreateText( window_id , x , y , text , angle , anchor , offset ) and otextMBR = mbr (oText) The other reason to do this (recreate oText) is if you nee

RE: MI-L MapBasic Text object question

2005-06-20 Thread Jacques Paris
Not knowing if there has been any meaningful development since 6.50 in the area of text objects, I would consider that question as the perfect source of frustration for MB programmers. You are right, the MBR of a text object enclose the "line" if any. I ran a little test that seems to indicate ther