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MapBasic®
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Text Editor
- Creates and edits programs.
MapBasic Compiler - Creates an executable from a program.
MapBasic Linker - Links program modules, that were written separately, when creating large or complex applications.
On-line Help - Provides reference information for each statement and function in the MapBasic language.
Statements and Functions - The MapBasic language contains over 300 statements and functions including:
Flow Control - looping, branching sub-procedures, user-defined functions, event handlers, error handling.
Connectivity - Call routines from DLLs. Communicate with other applications using DDE. Control MapInfo Professional using DDE or OLE Automation. Access remote data sources through ODBC.
User Interface - Create new menu bars, menus or menu items, remove items from existing menus. Create or modify buttons on tool bars. Create custom dialogue boxes with text boxes, drop down lists, buttons, check-boxes, radio buttons, style pickers, select boxes. Show or hide standard windows, control events on selection, map window changes, window closure, window focus change, button push or application termination.
Variables - local, global, numeric, string, logical, dates, and object variable types: arrays and custom data structures.
Table and File Manipulation - Use Excel, Lotusā 1-2-3ā , xBASE and ASCII files directly. Built-in SQL commands to query, sort, aggregate, join and create derived data. (Supports select statements with FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY clauses with sub-selects). Supports equi-joins and geographic joins. Commit changes, roll-back changes. Connect to data via ODBC. Open, close, read, write to ASCII and binary files.
Functions - String, data conversion, math, date, time and geographic functions.
Geographic Object Manipulation - Create points, lines, polylines, text, polygons, buffer and more. Edit and manipulate objects including reshape, object conversions, split, combine and erase. Calculate area, perimeter, length, centroid and area overlap. Modify object styles. Display maps from multiple layers, control display settings and create thematic maps. Find and geocode objects. |
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MapBasic® -
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Application
development environment for MapInfo
Professional®.
MapBasic®
is a complete, BASIC-like
programming language used to create custom
applications for use with MapInfo
Professional® or special
MapInfo® runtimes. MapBasic®
extends geographic functionality,
automates repetitive operations, and
integrates MapInfo Professional®
with other applications - quickly and
easily.
With MapBasic®, a custom
application can be as simple as adding a
menu item to MapInfo Professional®
or as sophisticated as redesigning the
entire user interface and extending the
functionality of MapInfo Professional®.
You can modify the MapInfo Professional®
user interface by adding customized
toolbars, menus and dialog boxes to suit
the specific needs and technical
sophistication of the end user. You can
even hide unneeded functionality or change
the terminology to reflect a specific
application.
MapBasic® allows you to work
in the programming languages you are most
familiar with and integrates the optimal
amount of mapping functionality into
applications. Another advantage to the
Integrated Mapping feature is even as
MapInfo Professional® is
running in the background, it remains as a
hidden server to the application -
allowing the end user to see only one
application interface. The Integrated
Mapping feature also lets you control
MapInfo Professional® through
popular development tools such as Visual
Basic, PowerBuilder, Delphi and C++,
giving you the ability to:
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Control
MapInfo Professional®
through OLE Automation
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Add
mapping to your Visual Basic
application with as little as five
lines of code
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Create
MapInfo windows inside other custom
programs. For instance, you can create
a MapInfo Professional window inside
your Visual Basic form. Integrated
Mapping allows you to 'reparent'
MapInfo Professional windows so they
look and act like part of your Visual
Basic (or other language) interface.
If you've been wanting to add 'a
little bit of mapping' to your custom
applications, this is the tool for the
job
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Program
in development environments of your
choice. If you're a C++ programmer,
you can do all of your coding in C++
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You
can use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) to
communicate with other software packages.
Plus, MapBasic® applications
can call routines in Windows Dynamic Link
Libraries (DLL) files.
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for pricing information on
Products and Services
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