MapPoint 2009 - Pushpin Symbols

[Chris]

MapPoint 2009 issue...

In the help file it lists 335 pushpin symbols.

If I try and set a pushpin symbol to anything greater than 85 it crashes.
If I set it to something less than 85 it assigns a different symbol to the
one listed in the help file. E.g. 8 used to be some black pin symbol, but
now appears to be a strange car symbol.

What's going on?

Thanks,
Chris

[Marvin Hlavac]

> If I try and set a pushpin symbol to anything greater than 85 it crashes.
> If I set it to something less than 85 it assigns a different symbol to the
> one listed in the help file. E.g. 8 used to be some black pin symbol, but
> now appears to be a strange car symbol.

Chris,

You may need to download, and then import additional pushpins. MapPoint 2009
comes with fewer pushpins, but the help file still contains the older info.

Download link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ab772c5-4d03-4f5e-a4e7-9fea604c0dee&DisplayLang=en

---
Marvin Hlavac
Laptop GPS World
http://www.laptopgpsworld.com/

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[Eric Frost - MVP]

> Download link:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ab772c5-4d03-4f5e-a4e7-9fea604c0dee&DisplayLang=en

This download only contains the 256 symbols that were in MapPoint 2002.. more discussion about this lots of places

http://www.mapforums.com/blogs/winwaed/47-adding-mappoint-2006-pushpins-mappoint-2009.html

http://www.mapforums.com/i-want-my-mappoint-icons-back-8339.html

Eric
http://www.MP2Kmag.com

[Chris]

Thanks,

I've changed my program to import them as custom pushpins each time.

Thanks,
Chris

"Eric Frost - MVP" <eric DOT frost AT mp2kmag DOT com> wrote in message
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[Manea@discussions.microsoft.com Alexander Manea]

Chris,

if you don't mind me asking, how do you programmatically import custom
symbols?

I need to do that as well.

Thanks,
Alex. M.

[Suendorf@discussions.microsoft.com Manfred Suendorf]

there is a free download available: www.mappoint2009.info
you get a Map template with all 2006 business-pins.

[Chris]

Hi,

I make sure I have bitmaps of the pushpins I want to use in a Bitmaps folder
off my application folder. Then I do something like this...

' Module Level
Dim RedSymbolIDsArray(1 To 20) As Integer

' Form Load
Dim objSym As MapPointCtl.Symbol
Dim objSymbols As MapPointCtl.Symbols
Dim I As Integer

Set objSymbols = objMap.Symbols

For I = 1 To 20
Set objSym = objSymbols.Add(App.Path & "\Bitmaps\Red" & I & ".bmp")
RedSymbolIDsArray(I) = objSym.ID
Next I

Then later I set a puspin to one of my red numbered icons (1 to 20). E.g.

objPin.Symbol = RedSymbolIDsArray(5)

Thanks,
Chris

"Alexander Manea" <Alexander Ma...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:9D88ECF2-719B-4B10...@microsoft.com...

[MeliDe]

Since many of us are having such an issue with the lack of Pushpins, why
doesn't Microsoft just add them back? We may have to uninstall it because I
don't want to have to import them each time.

[Eric Frost - MVP]

There are a few work-arounds..you can replace the default template or run Yves's program which modifies the binary. See here --

http://www.mapforums.com/blogs/what-s-new-on-mp2kmag/69-getting-mappoint-2006-pushpins-into-mappoint-2009.html

Eric

"MeliDe" <Mel...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:CCBD258D-0065-48E6...@microsoft.com...

[Jonathan Shields]

I have just discovered this issue while evaulating MapPoint 2009 Europe. In
2006, 255 symbols. In 2009, only 46, and the symbols themselves have all
changed, so where I used to have a nice red dot I have an amusement park
"flags" symbol!

I will use the workaround that has been kindly supplied in this thread but
it does annoy me that instead of leaving the previous 255 symbols intact and
adding new ones to them, and therby extending functionality, they have
reduced the functionality and made everyone change their code ! Oh well,
same old Microsoft....