Hi, It has been pointed to me that the way MITAB returns newlines in escaped "\n" format in string attribute values is not consistent with the way other OGR...
I have always why it was escaped. For my part I will have to comment out code that translated those escape sequences into char(10) which will be nice because...
As I understand there are no no plans to add random write access to . tab file, isn't it? Exist other reason except perfomance to add this future. When you...
Just to follow-up on this, since we got no negative feedback, the changes have been made and will be part of the next MITAB release. So starting with the next...
... The library is designed so that it could eventually support random read/write access some day (hence all the checks for read-onle/write-only everywhere in...
I encounter problem changing a feature's color, which is in link type. I follow the step such as below : 1) create System.IntPtr to connect to a .tab file. 2)...
Hi JP: I have tried...it does not work.....most probably we cannot directly modify an existing tab file.....instead, we need to copy the point (x,y) out of the...
You are correct you cannot modify an existing .tab file using MITAB to my knowledge as it does not support simultaneous read/write access. ... From:...
Oh ok...So i tried to create a new .tab file and copy all the features and vertexes to the file while changing the pen. However, the set_point doesn't seems to...
I have a loop that goes through all the items in a tab file that looks about like this: pFeat = table->GetNextFeature(); if(//check to see if it's a polygon...
... Andy, The Centroid() method is implemented using GEOS. If you don't have GEOS configured into your GDAL/OGR build, it will leave the passed point...
Dear listers, I need to convert a SHP file in a TAB file with attributes stored in Access table instead on .dat file. In fact the application which will read...
... No, the .map file doesn't contain any information about the database structure, it contains only the geometry and styling stuff. ... Maybe the .mdb table...
Hey All, I have recently studied the source of mitab library. And it's very hard to read the code without the MITAB file format. Can anybody help me? Do you...
The link I sent you (http://www.routeware.dk/notes.html) is the closest you get an easy to read description of the file format. The most exact description is...
Jim Thank you for your reply first.And it's very kind of to send me the link. I have looked for it many weeks. Thanks a lot. Regards lonelyghost ... DO YOU...
Hi all, the lib seems to be wrong when used in MFC. When linking, the linker report it conflicts with LIBC.lib. Then i used /nodefaultlib:"LIBC.lib", the...
Hello again, I wonder why, when applying a rotation angle to a text object, MITAB seems to take the MBR's lower-left corner for rotation center, when MapInfo...
Hi, Im using MItab with Visual Basic 6.0 1) I need to create points with custom symbols. All is ok but I don't know how set the "Display at Actual Size" and...
Hi everyone, A couple of important additions have been made to the MITAB library recently which will constitute a new 1.5.0 release. However, due to the nature...
Hi all, I've use MinGW to compile the mitab libraries and test programs. The libraries and test programs *seem* to work OK, but I dont get any return values....
I've downloaded the precompiled DLL, used the MinGW 'pexports' program to create a '.def' file and then used 'dltool' to create a linkable library from the...
... Andreas, The original problem is because the expansion of EPSG:31463 is not easily identified as being datum 1000 for mapinfo format. The name does not...
My calls to mitab_c_get_symbol_no(), mitab_c_get_symbol_color() and mitab_c_get_symbol_size() do not return the correct values for FontSymbols. Am I missing...
Dear List My understanding from previous postings on the list is that MITAB will not allow you to edit an existing table that was created by MapInfo. I further...