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RE: Default line style in Layout Designer

Posted By David David.wilson@buchanancomputing.co.uk 06-29-2021 10:44
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Hi Peter, Thanks again for looking. I think you are correct we must be changing the style somewhere, although I've not managed to locate where just now. But I can reset it back to the original default styles once the layout has completed opening. Sorry to wast your time on it. David ---------- ...

RE: Default line style in Layout Designer

Posted By David David.wilson@buchanancomputing.co.uk 06-28-2021 07:29
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Hi Peter, Thanks for testing this. We're tending to use the OEM Runtime MI v2019.3 we've been issued with. So all the functionality is controlled by our code. The styles are set manually in the Options: Then we can plot using the spatial drawing tools (run menu command 1712) But when within ...

Default line style in Layout Designer

Posted By David David.wilson@buchanancomputing.co.uk 06-28-2021 03:40
Found In Egroup: MapInfo Pro \ view thread
Can the default line style in the layout designer be set to the default line style set in the backstage Options style. Clients have set the default line style for drawing onto the map window, but when they then move to the layout window its different. If it is different, is there a way we can set ...

RE: MapInfo 17.0.2 - crash on "Add Column"

Posted By David David.wilson@buchanancomputing.co.uk 05-07-2021 07:48
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We've realised the issue is to do with temporary columns being updated. If the column has been added using the 'Alter table' command first then the 'add column' command works as usual. Unfortunately the same issue occurs using MI Runtime v2019.3 when run within our Citrix environment. Cheers David ...

RE: MapInfo 17.0.2 - crash on "Add Column"

Posted By David David.wilson@buchanancomputing.co.uk 05-06-2021 05:05
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Hi, We have recently come across the same issue, where an add column statement is crashing MapInfo without going into any MapBasic error handler. Did you manage to find a solution to the previous issue? For us it is also happening in MI v17.0.2 Runtime, but only when  within a Citrix environment, ...

RE: There seems to be a distance limit to the CartesianOffsetXY function

Hi Peter, Thanks for letting me know. I'll look to change our code once we move across to v2019, I'm sure that will be quicker than the way I'm currently doing it. Cheers David ------------------------------ David Wilson Buchanan Computing London, UK ------------------------------

RE: There seems to be a distance limit to the CartesianOffsetXY function

Hi Andrei, Thanks for letting me know. I've already altered the code to move each node, so will leave it like that rather than altering the bounds. Hopefully there are no other functions affected by the use of table bounds. David ------------------------------ David Wilson Buchanan Computing ...

RE: There seems to be a distance limit to the CartesianOffsetXY function

Hi Peter, Thanks for looking at this, I was beginning to doubt myself. It's strange that it's not consistent, hopefully it's something fairly straight forward to fix. I had wondered if it had anything to do with MapInfo preferences default map projection settings, mine are set to Brit Nat Grid ...

RE: There seems to be a distance limit to the CartesianOffsetXY function

Hi John I do not think so. I've tried doing it manually in the MapInfo MapBasic window as below and the points do not appear at the correct location. But my previous post altering the nodes works ok. set coordsys Earth Projection 8, 79, "m", -2, 49, 0.9996012717, 400000, -100000 Bounds (1, 1) ...

RE: There seems to be a distance limit to the CartesianOffsetXY function

Hi Bill, Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately we want to repeatedly copy/move objects differing amounts as required by the user. So I've just modified the procedure to update every node in the required object as we did in the old MapX code. It's not that slow but I expect the main MB function would ...

There seems to be a distance limit to the CartesianOffsetXY function

Hi, We have a MapInfo table of region objects representing specific symbology (letters and arrows). Previously in a MapX application we transformed the location of these objects using the basic transformation of coordinate formula for each node. But in MapInfo 64bit (MBv17) I was trying to make use ...

RE: OverlayNodes and IntersectNodes

Hi Peter, Many thanks that has worked. I don't see why the INCL_CROSSING worked occasionally even when there was a node present. I had added nodes for both lines prior to using the IntersectNodes function and it sometimes worked. But I'll change it to INCL_ALL anyway as that works consistently. ...

RE: OverlayNodes and IntersectNodes

RE: OverlayNodes and IntersectNodes

Hi Peter, Unfortunately not, the coordinate system is set. In this particular case I'm using 2 kerb lines and splitting them by 4 cross lines, so calling this routine 4 times. It fails about once out of 4 occasions. All the objects are usually derived objects stored in variables, not based on objects ...

OverlayNodes and IntersectNodes

Hi Using MB17 and MapInfo v17.02 I have 2 polylines (although only 2 pnts) that cross another polyline. I'm trying to get the points along the main line between the two crossing lines. But quite often the overlaynodes and intersectnodes does not return anything. Basically I use:  'add nodes ...

RE: How to improve Performance in MapBasic applications

Hi Peter, Thanks, a really useful summary. We've certainly found that the use of the 'noselect' during selections and making use of custom functions for updating items made a tremendous difference. I'll have to look into the use of the smartindex facility as I've not made use of that. Cheers David ...

RE: Reporting tools?

Posted By David David.wilson@buchanancomputing.co.uk 11-07-2019 07:10
Found In Egroup: MapInfo Pro \ view thread
Hi Jay, We initially cheated by writing a 32bit exe that the 64bit MapBasic can run. That then uses the old crystal reports crpe32.dll to use our original reports. But we are moving everything to use more 'open source' reporting tools or MS Office as required. Regards David Wilson --------- ...

Ribbon Shortcuts MIv17

Hi, We've created a ribbon using DotNet and assigned a number of shortcuts to various buttons. All the F2-F12 shortcuts work, calling the procedures in our MapBasic code, but any created using the 'Alt' or 'Shift' plus a letter: 'Alt+U' , 'Shift+D' don't activate. Those created using the standard ...

RE: Detect double click on toolbutton

Many thanks Bill, I will look into it, for now I must admit I've just used the combination of both shift +crtl keys to activate the required MapBasic code after plotting a point. David ------------------------------ David Wilson Buchanan Computing London, UK ------------------------------

Detect double click on toolbutton

Hi I have a MapBasic 17application with a tool button where the user can plot multiple points, they then manually have to click a second button to activate some more code. I would like to enable them to be able to double click on the last point and then automatically fire the next set of code. The ...