... Eric, I don't know if there is any equivalent in MapBasic for C pointers, but from mitab_capi.c's point of view, treating "void *" as "32 bits unsigned...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Jul 12, 2000 8:13 pm
... Actually, we were talking about 32 bits integers... which is the same as 4 bytes integers... so you're OK. ... It should make no difference with respect to...
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Eric Frost
frost@...
Jul 12, 2000 9:04 pm
ah, I had the impression it was like MI's Object variable, actually containing the data. so it's a handle or pointer to the records? in some of the C functions...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Jul 13, 2000 2:55 pm
... At the lower-level in the lib, mitab_handle and mitab_feature are pointers to C++ objects but we make them visible as void pointers to make the C API's...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Jul 13, 2000 11:00 pm
... I have looked at that a long time ago but unfortunately I don't have an easy solution for you. All I know is that VB has a special way to handle strings...
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Anssi Joutsiniemi
anssi.joutsiniemi@...
Jul 14, 2000 6:58 am
Eric, Daniel... Would it be enough to use ByVal keyword on lpstr parameters on Declare statement. See the following snippet. <snip> (from Dan Appleman's Visual...
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Eric Frost
frost@...
Jul 14, 2000 5:15 pm
Hi List, In trying to make the declare statements for VB, I gave up on the mitab.dll as it was and tried making all the exports stdcall instead (I read VB...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Jul 14, 2000 5:48 pm
... Eric, I think the VB interface will make lots of potential users happy. If you want, you could prepare a ZIP file with the MapBasic and VB declaration...
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Eric Frost
frost@...
Jul 14, 2000 7:12 pm
... well, thanks for the lib! figuring out declarations is relatively easy I'm sure...
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kclauzier@...
Jul 26, 2000 9:21 am
Hello, We're using the Mif2Tab program to built new MapInfo Tables. It seems that when the originally Mif file contains Indexes, the Mif2Tab program does not...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Jul 26, 2000 1:20 pm
... Kevin, The lib is able to create the .IND file automatically as the .TAB dataset is created. The problem here is that the MIF2TAB program has not yet been...
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martin hamel
mh@...
Aug 4, 2000 7:11 pm
Hi bonjour, :-) I'm evaluating using MITAB for a client. We'd like to port it to Java. Do you know if any work has been done in that sense? I'm very...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Aug 7, 2000 9:30 pm
... Bonjour Martin, I haven't heard of anything Java-related done with MITAB yet. Maybe others on the list will see a similar need and would like to work with...
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ag@...
Aug 30, 2000 1:49 pm
hi I'm a java programmer... I just want to make a simple test ; Add a feature (point) to a MapInfo Table. Do i have to pass by an OGR object ? Antoine...
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ag@...
Aug 30, 2000 3:58 pm
Hi i have written a small piece of code, this code don't work. it flush all my records of the MapInfo table and add a empty record, with no fields informations...
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ag@...
Aug 30, 2000 4:01 pm
revised mail Hi i have written a small piece of code, this code don't work. it flush all my records of the MapInfo table and add a empty record, with no fields...
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Antoine Gilbert, KOREM
ag@...
Aug 30, 2000 8:41 pm
hi ok, i have understand some things and concepts.. only one major problem yet i insert the object, but that flush all the already existing features in the...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Aug 31, 2000 2:13 pm
... Antoine, The current version of the library does not support update of existing tables. You can only create new tables. The code that you had included in...
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Ned Harding
NHARDING@...
Sep 7, 2000 9:31 pm
Daniel, 2 things: First, I wanted to confirm the copyright/licensing of the MITab library. It seems to me if I use it, I just need to include a copyright for...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Sep 7, 2000 11:09 pm
... I never really thought myself about what the requirements would be exactly. As long as there is some kind of recognition somewhere that your software uses...
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Ned Harding
NHARDING@...
Sep 11, 2000 3:57 pm
Daniel, I noticed a bunch of issues in the MITab library that make it not compatible with a multi-threaded program. I think I could make it all...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Sep 11, 2000 5:48 pm
... Ned, You're right, MITAB is not expected to be thread-safe (yet!) I will try to prepare a snapshot of the code in the next 1 or 2 days and send that to...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerda@...
Sep 11, 2000 6:53 pm
... Ned / Daniel, By all means do a thread clean version of MITAB, but I do have bit of a concern. The CPL code (such as CPLReadLine()) is intended to remain...
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Ned Harding
NHARDING@...
Sep 12, 2000 2:07 pm
Frank, I did not realize that that code is meant to be C compatible, but that shouldn't be a problem at all. Thanks for letting me know. I'll find some way...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerda@...
Sep 28, 2000 4:44 pm
Folks, I have updated the mitab CVS tree with fixes for all the uninitialized and unused variables I found compiling with "gcc -O2 -Wall". I have also updated...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Oct 4, 2000 2:53 am
MITAB users, I have placed a new release of MITAB (V1.0.2) on the lib's website at http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/index-mitab.html The change log for this...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerda@...
Oct 15, 2000 2:22 pm
Folks, I was just looking around the web and discovered that Blue Marble Geographics has a TAB reading API as well. Has anyone compared it with MITAB? As far...
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Robert Edwards
EdwardsRG@...
Oct 15, 2000 5:26 pm
... The Blue Marble web page about their "tab" file reader has been around for awhile. At the time it was written, I believe their statement was true (but now,...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerda@...
Oct 16, 2000 9:42 pm
Folks, I have checked in what I hope to be working support for NonEarth coordinate systems for mif and tab files. NonEarth coordinate systems should now be ...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerda@...
Oct 18, 2000 3:20 am
... Stephen, I have modified the TABText constructor to initialize m_dWidth to zero, but is that sufficient? I am not really sure. I am cc:ing the mitab list...
