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Re: kml to shp translation

2008-09-05T20:32:02Z

I suspected as much. It is strange though. If I convert .shp to KML
and then try and go back it still fails. Thanks anyhow.

RE: [fme] Re: Expression evaluator issue

2008-09-05T14:16:16Z

It has always been like this so no need for testing, you can se the reason for this in my other mail

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RE: [fme] Re: Expression evaluator issue

2008-09-05T14:14:26Z

as I understands the issue then it all gos bact to the fact that @Evalaute() is using tcl to do the calculations

and in Tcl we dont have different datatypese as you have in Pascal/Delphi, C, VB etc. everytning is a strings so if we put integres into the @Evaluate / tcl expr command, it will treates it as an integer and out punt an integer

Re: Use of Attributerenamer in FME 2008

2008-09-05T08:40:03Z

Hello Mark.

It is a problem creating the workspace. - the transformer settings
turns red.
I will try your idea about creating a dummy feature with all the
attributes. I sound as it could work even if it is a strange
workaround.

Thank you

Heiede

Re: [fme] Re: Expression evaluator issue

2008-09-05T08:25:30Z

Wolfgang,
The little bit of programming background that I have is Pascal/Delphi
(lots of headaches with defining datatypes) and more recently PHP (type
juggling), so I guess I'm all over the place in that respect. But then
again, so is FME in a way. You can use numeric attributes in a
Concatenator as if they were strings, or route them to string output

Re: Expression evaluator issue

2008-09-05T08:19:10Z

Thx for the reply. However as far as I noticed, this was not needed in
FME2007. I'll do some more testing to confirm this.
Grz,
Lies

Re: Expression evaluator issue

2008-09-05T08:18:17Z

Dear Hans,

Imho that's not at all "unfortunately" - the alternative would be to
either have no control over data types at all (e. g. everything is
double prec float or everything is integer), or to have a lot of
definitions somewhere, or to juggle with type casts all along your
expressions... thus iMho that is a very powerful means to define and

Re: [fme] Use of Attributerenamer in FME 2008

2008-09-05T05:53:56Z

Hi,
you could try to create a custom transformer starting with an
attributeExposer exposing all the possible attributes that you can encounter
in your attributecopier.
This custom tranformer could then be used everywhere in the workspace ...
Greets
Jeff

RE: [fme] Re: Hardware Locked Licenses and FME2009

2008-09-04T23:15:23Z

No need to apologize, sorry if I sounded cantankerous :)
The version of safe.exe that I was running was likely considerably older
(I don't think I've obtained a new one since my initial floating license
install) and was linked against the FlexLM library 8.2a from 2002. The
one you provided is linked against 11.4.

Re: Hardware Locked Licenses and FME2009

2008-09-04T21:12:56Z

Hi Jason,
Sorry about that. I'm sure you're not the only one with that scenario.
If you want to get the components separately then you could just drop
a line to support and get them to send them to you.

In answer to your question, I doubt you would need to update that
file, but it depends how old a version you have. If it's less than a

Re: Use of Attributerenamer in FME 2008

2008-09-04T20:55:49Z

Hello Heiede,
I've tried this and I don't have any problem in running data through
an AttributeRenamer when the attribute doesn't exist.
However, you don't say when the problem occurs: is it during the
workspace creation or the workspace running?

If it's a problem when you run the workspace, it might be because you

Re: Rasters and removing black space

2008-09-04T20:37:28Z

Hi Lindsay,
I think it depends on what the black space actually is, and where
(which application) you are seeing it.

It may be that these areas are "nodata" and the application you are
using either ignores that or chooses to depict nodata as the colour
black.
Then it's an application problem, rather than a data issue.

Re: match_id

2008-09-04T20:24:25Z

Each Matcher starts counting from 0 (ie the values are not unique over
several Matchers).
I would simply use different names for the match_id if it is
important.

To get technical, underneath it's simply an @Count function where the
transformer name is the name of the domain - so if you felt it was

RE: [fme] Re: Hardware Locked Licenses and FME2009

2008-09-04T19:57:49Z

Hi Mark,
Some of us (OK, me) are running a single install of FlexLM for multiple
services such as FME, ESRI, Autodesk, etc.
Safe's bundling of the network license manager install into a single MSI
(last I checked) makes this difficult to manage. In these cases, it
would actually be easier to deal with if the safe vendor daemon, the

Re: Hardware Locked Licenses and FME2009

2008-09-04T19:17:46Z

Actually - let me clarify this based on new information.

As of FME2009 build 5603 (I believe it is) Hardware Locked and
Floating Licenses may no longer work.

Floating licenses will only work where the license server is v11.4
(not v8.x as it used to be).
So as soon as one or more users upgrade to 2009 the license server