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RE: Python from console vs called from Ribbon

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 06-19-2025 10:00
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Thanks Peter, Run Application did the trick. ------------------------------ Brandon Shepherd Knowledge Community Shared Account Shelton CT ------------------------------

RE: Python from console vs called from Ribbon

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 06-18-2025 13:33
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To be clear, we have other tools that work successfully using this call method, but none that attempt to use the MapInfo Pro Extensibility to use internal features. I believe the issue may stem from the MapInfo.Types Import outside of the Python Console. Our success with Python Extensibility has ...

Python from console vs called from Ribbon

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 06-18-2025 12:51
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I have a couple simple scripts trying to iterate processes over directories. They work perfectly fine from the Python Console within MapInfo, however I cannot get them to run properly when called from a tool button. What extra steps or details are needed to get this working? import os from os.path import ...

RE: Adding Multiple Key Gestures to Control Button

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 05-01-2025 14:34
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Ah, simple enough. Thank you. ------------------------------ Brandon Shepherd Knowledge Community Shared Account Shelton CT ------------------------------

RE: Adding Multiple Key Gestures to Control Button

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 04-29-2025 16:47
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Thanks Peter, I think the CommandInfo() feature is limited to toolbuttons, and control buttons themselves can only have one key gesture. I've been experimenting but having trouble with the other Ribbon Control Properties beyond the simple ones here. In order to get the CommandInfo() function to ...

Adding Multiple Key Gestures to Control Button

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 04-17-2025 13:27
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Adding Multiple Key Gestures to Control Button

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 04-17-2025 13:27
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Hello, I have created a simple script to automatically select and find the next item in a table. Is there a way to add multiple key gestures to a single button, in this case to allow users to select and find the previous item? Better yet, is it possible to assign key gestures to a running script that ...

RE: The MapBasic Common Libraries

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 04-09-2025 13:13
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Thanks Peter, I am glad to see you are still updating the libraries. I've downloaded the mbLibrary and will make it my default environment. Is the best way to get reacquainted with their functionality to browse the .DEF files you think? It seems a lot of what I am used to has remained besides ...

The MapBasic Common Libraries

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 04-08-2025 19:53
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Hello, Several years ago I developed a suite of MapBasic tools for our office and I have now set out to updating them. I am reading through many of the posts here but I want to clarify this first. Back then, it was hugely beneficial to go downloading a collection of modules I think were called ...

RE: Optimal Hardware and Software settings for Interpolation?

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 09-21-2022 14:44
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Thank you for your responses Peter. I will certainly start with changing the memory cache as mine was set to low somehow. The other interpolation cache settings were normal. We run these processes on machines with 192 GB of RAM, often interpolating individual points files in text format anywhere from ...

Optimal Hardware and Software settings for Interpolation?

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 09-20-2022 15:33
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Hello,  I believe my question lies mostly around the processor utilization of Create Raster. We are looking to build a PC designed specifically for this task, creating rasters covering hundreds of square miles at 1 meter or less resolution.  On the MapInfo side, is there any setting besides Concurrency ...

RE: Automating Contour Creation

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 05-26-2021 10:20
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Thank you very much. I don't think there is a better way to get started than with this. I appreciate it. ------------------------------ Brandon Shepherd Knowledge Community Shared Account Shelton CT ------------------------------

Automating Contour Creation

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 05-17-2021 10:59
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Hello,  I am looking for a way to automate contour creation with MapInfo, MapBasic, or Python. It's common practice for us to create contour tables of different intervals at certain depths, such as 1' for 0-50, 5' for 55-100, 10' for 110-500 and so on. The current Raster contour tool only allows us ...

Complex Raster Clips Failing in 2019.3

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 04-20-2021 16:37
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Hello,  We have been experiencing trouble when clipping large rasters to complex polygons in the latest version of MapInfo. We first thought it was a size limitation or an error within the polygon file, but using the same files in older versions of MapInfo as late as 19.2 works successfully. Any ideas?  ...

Complex Raster Clips Failing in 2019.3

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 04-20-2021 16:36
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RE: Automation of Select by Region Shuffles Object Order

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 02-26-2020 17:33
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Thank you to both of you for your input.  Rather than to maintain the explicit RowID from the original table, the intention was just to keep the relative order of the points. So if a track segment from the selection started at 100 and continued to 140, where then it jumps to another segment at 180 ...

RE: Automation of Select by Region Shuffles Object Order

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 02-24-2020 10:42
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Thank you for the quick response Peter. I must have glanced over the Order By parameter in the help file. Is it possible to order the selection simply by RowID, without making any changes to the table? I can experiment with this and report back some time later. Otherwise I could add a column and update ...

Automation of Select by Region Shuffles Object Order

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 02-21-2020 15:07
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Automation of Select by Region Shuffles Object Order

Posted By Brandon Shepherd 02-21-2020 15:07
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Hello, I attempted to create a script that would automate the process of selecting by region (or manual selection) and Save Copy As. The intent was to split up large points files into smaller sections. The tool successfully selects and saves the points query, but the order of the points in the new ...