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RE: How To Deactivate A Frame With MapBasic

Posted By John Hollingsworth 01-11-2024 11:05
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Thanks, Peter! ------------------------------ John Hollingsworth GIS Director Clear Channel Outdoor ------------------------------

How To Deactivate A Frame With MapBasic

Posted By John Hollingsworth 11-03-2023 16:15
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I cannot find a way to deactivate a map frame in a layout using MapBasic. I can activate one using: Set Layout Window Selection Add Frame ID Run Menu Command M_LAYOUT_ITEM_ACTIVATE But I can't find how to deactivate it. And while I'm on the topic, it is very cumbersome to not give the user ...

RE: MapBasic: Dynamically set the paper size based on the window size

Posted By John Hollingsworth 08-07-2023 16:52
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Thanks for your reply, Ahmet. Unfortunately, the resources you referenced only give me what is in place by default in Windows. The sizes are already enumerated in the MapBasic definitions file, PaperSize.def. I need to be able to dynamically (either at runtime or via pre-configuration) be able to create ...

MapBasic: Dynamically set the paper size based on the window size

Posted By John Hollingsworth 08-02-2023 15:53
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Use Case: I have a written MapBasic tool (v21) that allows the user to create a new layout from a map window and then it does all the window renaming and hiding, etc. The user can choose from 8.5x11, 11x17, 18x24, and 24x36 sizes. I want to automatically configure the correct paper size based on the ...

RE: Tables in in dropbox freezing randomly Mapinfo 15.0.2

Posted By John Hollingsworth 01-15-2023 14:41
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Dropbox can take a long time to restart so this might just be how it is. A potential help can be reducing the number of files that the client has to manage by using the Selective Sync feature (under Preferences->Sync->Select Folders in the client). This can dramatically reduce the time that the ...

RE: Tables in in dropbox freezing randomly Mapinfo 15.0.2

Posted By John Hollingsworth 01-14-2023 01:37
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Hi Mary, As someone who manages a 75-user footprint with all of our data stored in Dropbox, I hope I can help. The Dropbox client has to periodically scan each file under its purview for changes and to do so has to put a momentary lock on the files. When editing and/or saving a MapInfo file, the ...

RE: MapBasic v2021 now available

Posted By John Hollingsworth 11-15-2021 16:52
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Found them. Thanks, Andrei!  ------------------------------ John Hollingsworth GIS Director Clear Channel Outdoor ------------------------------

RE: MapBasic v2021 now available

Posted By John Hollingsworth 11-15-2021 16:22
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Is there a timeline for when the User Guide and Reference pdfs will be updated? The only options I see are for 2019.3 when I look here. Thanks, ------------------------------ John Hollingsworth Clear Channel Outdoor Holding Inc ------------------------------

RE: Struggling to migrate from 32bit to 64bit

Posted By John Hollingsworth 07-07-2021 13:56
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Thank you very much @John Ievers. This is exactly what I was looking for. #NailedIt​​ ------------------------------ John Hollingsworth Clear Channel Outdoor Holding Inc ------------------------------

RE: Struggling to migrate from 32bit to 64bit

Posted By John Hollingsworth 07-02-2021 13:47
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Thanks, Martin. I am a bit confused with one portion of your reply. Once a layout is created, the map is completely severed from the original map. Or so it seems. Part of my consternation is that I have to train 100+ users in this new environment so any confusion on my part will be greatly multiplied. ...

Struggling to migrate from 32bit to 64bit

Posted By John Hollingsworth 07-01-2021 19:29
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Hi All, Longtime MapInfo Pro user/MapBasic developer here (started with v4.0 back in the 90's). I am the MapInfo admin and MapBasic developer at my company. I have about 80 MBX tools that I wrote and maintain; thousands of lines of code, etc. We are currently running v15.0.3. I have studied ...

RE: Import Excel with all fields as Char using Register Table

Posted By John Hollingsworth 02-08-2019 12:44
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Thanks for testing Eric. I removed the empty cells and retested and got the same error message. Back to the drawing board... ------------------------------ John Hollingsworth Clear Channel Outdoor ------------------------------

RE: Import Excel with all fields as Char using Register Table

Posted By John Hollingsworth 02-08-2019 10:31
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RE: Import Excel with all fields as Char using Register Table

Posted By John Hollingsworth 02-08-2019 10:31
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I isolated the problem field into its own spreadsheet. Now when I try to import I get the Microsoft Access warning as shown below. It seems like it is telling me that the Float type won't accept the data. Which makes me wonder why Excel/Access chose Float in the first place. I'm starting to think ...

RE: Import Excel with all fields as Char using Register Table

Posted By John Hollingsworth 02-08-2019 09:26
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Unfortunately, given the volume of spreadsheets involved, manual editing isn't feasible. ------------------------------ John Hollingsworth Clear Channel Outdoor ------------------------------

RE: Import Excel with all fields as Char using Register Table

Posted By John Hollingsworth 02-08-2019 09:23
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I've done this, but unfortunately, when there are values with leading zeros either Excel or MapInfo replaces the entire value with a zero. So data is lost and cannot be recovered. It seems to me like in the past in this circumstance that MapInfo would convert the field to Float and keep all of the ...

Import Excel with all fields as Char using Register Table

Posted By John Hollingsworth 02-07-2019 15:43
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Is there a way to force MapInfo to register an Excel file with all fields as Char using the Register Table command? MapInfo is 'helpfully' assigning the Float data type to a column that contains data that is all numbers but some values have leading zeros. This is an ID field and needs to be imported ...

Setting Printer Save and Restore from Workspace from MapBasic

Posted By John Hollingsworth 07-26-2017 15:27
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As a part of a MapBasic application Im writing, Id like to check and see if the users machine has the Save/Restore Printer Information into/from Workspace options checked. If they arent Id like to set them. In looking at the MB reference documentation I dont see a way to do that. Has anyone found ...

RE: Setting Printer Save and Restore from Workspace from MapBasic

Posted By John Hollingsworth 07-26-2017 11:33
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Thanks Matt. I forgot that. :)