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RE: MapInfo Monday: Installing Additional Python Modules for MapInfo Pro

Posted By Bob Fortin 01-09-2024 10:24
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Hi Peter, There is an easier way to do this. There are some built in commands that help with modules: Try these in the Pro Python Console window: list_modules() install_module('requests') list_modules() uninstall_module('requests') list_modules() ------------------------------ Bob Fortin ...

RE: MiPro 2023 opening any document window takes forever

Posted By Bob Fortin 10-14-2023 12:36
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Hi Stefan, I have been using windows 11 all year and have not seen this. Is it happening all the time? Have you rebooted your machine and done windows update? Are other version of Pro working properly? Is there any security scanning going on when you see this behavior? See what is happening ...

RE: MapInfo Monday: Working with M & Z Values on Objects in MapInfo Pro v2023

Posted By Bob Fortin 09-14-2023 10:51
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re: #2 -- The support was there before, but only used when caching Z/M values upon opening shapefiles or geopackage and more recently OGR tables such as geojson. There was no way to create a table from scratch until this release. -Bob ------------------------------ Bob Fortin Software Architect ...

RE: UI Locale settings for MapInfo

Posted By Bob Fortin 07-25-2023 08:57
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Another way to do this is to copy MapInfoPro.exe.config from the zh-CN under your installation folder to your installation folder. Pro will then use this when launched. I would back up the original first. ------------------------------ Bob Fortin Software Architect and Distinguished Engineer MapInfo ...

RE: Refresh of the new Layer Filter option

Posted By Bob Fortin 11-22-2022 14:07
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More info - I am not sure why toggling the layer filter on and off does not refresh the query table. There may be a reason. ------------------------------ Bob Fortin Software Architect and Distinguished Engineer MapInfo Pro Development Team ------------------------------ ------------------- ...

RE: Refresh of the new Layer Filter option

Posted By Bob Fortin 11-22-2022 11:44
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Hi John,  I was just explaining it but I missed your point. It works as designed but maybe is missing something. Since the query table is hidden from end users they cannot easily refresh it from the ui. How is the data getting edited? Manually or other wise? Maybe we can be smarter about when ...

RE: Refresh of the new Layer Filter option

Posted By Bob Fortin 11-22-2022 10:43
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Hi John, The docs could be clearer. From the help: Note: When Filter is applied on a layer an internal hidden table is created. You can use the LayerInfo( , , LAYER_INFO_FILTER_TABLE_ALIAS) to get the alias of the hidden filter query table. Then the syntax to refresh the table is: ...

RE: OS MasterMap no-longer importing due to unicode character

Posted By Bob Fortin 08-12-2022 11:16
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I have 2 suggestions to try: 1. On System Settings Preference dialog make sure "Encode Workspaces and Tab Files" is checked. 2. You can add Type "NativeX" before the Overwrite token. -Bob If this does not work contact tech support as I think we should be able to handle this. ------------- ...

RE: Updating CSV point layers with new points

Posted By Bob Fortin 08-12-2022 11:02
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Hi Justin, You can now open csv files directly using our OGR support which eliminates the need to separately create points. If the file is not too large you can edit it directly from Pro.  Changes made outside of Pro would be picked up when you opened the tab file referring to the csv file. In table ...

RE: Calling Method in a DLL fails at MapInfo runtime, while running an app.

Posted By Bob Fortin 08-12-2022 10:31
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Hi Sergi, In comparing your code to HelloWorld.mb I noticed that you declared a shared function. This does not match with your mapbasic declare method statement as there is no return type on it. Also 'call' is used for calling subroutines not functions. I think since you do not need the return ...

RE: Context Menu vs Mini Toolbar

Posted By Bob Fortin 05-05-2022 13:44
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We do have a way to manually customize context menus in the MapInfoPro.mnu file. It is located here C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\MapInfo\MapInfo\Professional\2100 It is now an xml format, but the initial context menus are loaded from there. Of course if you are going to try this be sure ...

RE: Select by Attribute in MapInfo Pro v2021: number of fields in column area

Posted By Bob Fortin 04-20-2022 09:30
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Hi Michele, As Peter says we show up to 40 fields. If there is more than 40 we show indexed fields (also up to 40). In v2021.1 we have improved the "Add Condition"  dialog "Plus button" to allow adding multiple fields. You can also search to find fields. This is very helpful when a table can have ...

RE: MapInfo 2021 functions - zoom/pan spatial commands grayed out

Posted By Bob Fortin 02-23-2022 12:03
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Hi Ryan, Were you able to try my suggestion to rule out any add-ins that might be causing an issue? Another way to do this is to simply select them all in the tool manager window and click the unload button. -Bob ------------------------------ Bob Fortin Software Architect and Distinguished ...

RE: MapInfo 2021 functions - zoom/pan spatial commands grayed out

Posted By Bob Fortin 02-17-2022 12:37
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Hi Ryan, One idea is to see if the issue is being caused by an add-in. An easy way to do this is to start Pro on a command line with MapInfoPro.exe /noautoload If the issue does not happen then you can try to narrow it down to which tool. If it still happens let us know and we can get tech support ...

RE: Build 183

Posted By Bob Fortin 12-15-2021 08:12
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Here are the bugs fixed after 183. MIPRO-122795  fix for MIPRO-122795 - CRASH: Trying to open the MapInfo WFS server is throwing internal service error 500 then MapInfo exits    After build 183    MIPRO-122785  Fix for MIPRO-122785 ...

RE: Predominance for MapInfo Pro

Posted By Bob Fortin 12-13-2021 16:22
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Hi Tony, I spent a few hours on friday trying this out. I made two new mapbasic functions that take a variable number of parameters. The first one - PredominantVal(expr1, expr1 [, exprn...]) returns the maximum of the values passed in. The return value has the type of the first expression, so it ...

RE: Predominance for MapInfo Pro

Posted By Bob Fortin 12-08-2021 11:59
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Hi Tony, Have you given some thought as to what you would need in Pro to make this easier? I think it can be done already by using IIF() or Cond() functions. You should be able to do the same thing you did in excel inside of Pro with a careful update statement to set the value of a new column. ...

RE: Coordinatesystems in MiPro

Posted By Bob Fortin 12-08-2021 11:31
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I posted the release notes for the new dialog into the Lab group. If you are part of the Lab you can read it here: New Projection Dialog coming in 2021.1 | MapInfo Lab (precisely.com) ------------------------------ Bob Fortin Software Architect and Distinguished Engineer MapInfo Pro Development ...

RE: Coordinatesystems in MiPro

Posted By Bob Fortin 12-08-2021 11:30
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Hi Stefan, Your guess is correct. -Bob ------------------------------ Bob Fortin Software Architect and Distinguished Engineer MapInfo Pro Development Team ------------------------------

RE: Coordinatesystems in MiPro

Posted By Bob Fortin 12-02-2021 16:29
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Hi Stefan, For the short time we have for 2021.1 we are just updating the UI but keeping the .prj file format the same. I will create a story to add a group for the  you suggested above. Do you have a name in mind for the group? ------------------------------ Bob Fortin Software Architect ...