MapInfo Pro

Hi Guys,

As a MI/Discover user for over 15 years and knowing that 32bit has come to the end of its useful life I have taken the plunge and am trying to use 64bit but am finding the Layout functionality or lack thereof extremely troubling. A short list of things requiring attention include:

1. If you draw a polyline to use as a border (around a frame for example) the polyline acts like a polygon. By this I mean if I try to select a frame that has a polyline border around it I can only select the polyline. Even though I'm not clicking on the line.
2. Following on from point 1, I cannot use the ctrl key to select the object underneath. The only way to select objects underneath is to move those on top to the back...very tiresome
3. Where is the snap tool? That is the snap to object node
4. When editing a map frame within the layout you cannot click and drag from the Table List into the activated map frame
5. When aligning objects in the layout where is the Distribute function?

These are a just a start...I'll add a few more as I learn the products foibles.

Tony

Thanks for your response Reniel but I guess you have answered my post by saying these are not possible and I already knew that and would like them to be possible.

I understand that the new Layout is different and actually like the way the map window interacts within the frame but there is so much functionality that is in 32bit and not in 64bit, with very little additions that I wonder what the point of it all was.

Re the distribute function...you select a number of objects, click the button and they will be evenly distributed between the top/bottom or left/right most objects.

I guess what I was really hoping was that the layout would have real desktop publishing functionality such as Adobe Illustrator with the added capability of a GIS in the map window.