Mapinfo 16 - Mapbasic - Layout Designer - Adding a named map window

[Matthew Hirsch]

I had a great little script that would auto save map images based on a grid layer.    Unfortunately, with the new, and unwanted static layout window, my script no longer works so I am having to rewrite.   

My current code selects a grid number, zooms in to the grid, then (as a result of the static layout) opens a new layout designer and tries to fill the layout with the correct map data.

That said, I am trying to open a layout window, create a frame of a specific size, then call a map window that I rename higher in the code.   

This script is generic so can be used with any maps with a grid layer; they are not always the same layer  names or number of layers.     I tried to do the process manually to get the code, but in layout designer, when I select "Add new map" and then choose the named map window, it looks like it recreates the map.

Is there a way to code MB to add the named window rather than have it do all the layers like a workspace file?   

I'd like to do this.

Layout Designer

Set Coordsys Layout Units "in" Create Frame (0.184,0.1882) (16.8319,10.7396) Name "MapLayout" 

Set Designer Frame Id 1 From Window MYNAMEDMAP Legends On   

Rather than 

Layout Designer

Set Coordsys Layout Units "in" Create Frame (0.184,0.1882) (16.8319,10.7396) Name "MapLayout" 

Set Designer Frame Id 1 From Window 3174 Legends On

Map From GRID,GRID,GRID,RT_RG,MULTI

  ,SINGLE,USZIP,BGDEMOPD,BingHybrid,BingRoads

  Width 7.875 Units "in" Height 9.22917 Units "in" Floating

  Pen (1,2,0)    Into Window 3200 Id 1 

Set Window WindowID(0) Front

Set Window FrontWindow() ScrollBars Off Autoscroll On Enhanced On Smooth Text Antialias Image High Vector None

Set Map Redraw Off

Set Map

  CoordSys Earth Projection 10, 157, "m", 0

  Center (-13663649.24,4646610.635)

  Zoom 1.159692678 Units "mi"

  Preserve Zoom Display Zoom

  Distance Units "mi" Area Units "sq mi" XY Units "degree"

Set Map

  Layer 1

    Display Off

    Global Pen (2,2,255) Brush (1,16777215,16777215) Symbol (35,0,12) Line (1,2,0) Font ("Arial",0,9,0)

    Selectable Off

    Label Line None Position Center Font ("Arial",1,8,0,16776960) Pen (1,2,0) 

      With MAP

      Parallel On Auto On Overlap On Duplicates On PartialSegments On Offset 0

      Visibility On

  Layer 2

    Display Global

    Global Pen (2,2,255) Brush (1,16777215,16777215) Symbol (35,0,12) Line (1,2,0) Font ("Arial",0,9,0)

    Selectable Off

    Label Line None Position Center Font ("Arial",1,8,0,16776960) Pen (1,2,0) 

      With MAP

      Parallel On Auto On Overlap On Duplicates On PartialSegments On Offset 0

      Visibility On

  Layer 3

    Display Global

    Global Pen (2,2,255) Brush (1,16777215,16777215) Symbol (35,0,12) Line (1,2,0) Font ("Arial",0,9,0)

    Selectable Off

    Label Line None Position Below Font ("Arial",1,8,16777215,16711680) Pen (1,2,0) 

      With QTY

      Parallel On Auto On Overlap On Duplicates On PartialSegments On Offset 6

      Visibility On

  Layer 4

    Display Global

    Global Pen (1,2,0) Brush (2,16777215,16777215) Symbol (34,65280,5) Line (1,2,0) Font ("Arial",0,9,0)

    Selectable Off

    Label Line Arrow Position Right Font ("Arial",0,9,0) Pen (1,2,0) 

      With ADDRESS_ID

      Parallel On Auto Off Overlap Off Duplicates On Offset 2

      Visibility On

  Layer 5

    Display Global

    Global Pen (1,2,0) Brush (2,16777215,16777215) Symbol (31,16711680,7) Line (1,2,0) Font ("Arial",0,9,0)

    Selectable Off

    Label Line Arrow Position Right Auto Retry On Font ("Arial",257,7,16711680,16777215) Pen (1,2,0) 

      With LABEL

      Parallel On Auto On Overlap Off Duplicates On PartialSegments On Offset 2

      Visibility Zoom (0, 10) Units "mi"

  Layer 6

    Display Off

    Global Pen (1,2,0) Brush (2,16777215,16777215) Symbol (32,255,7) Line (1,2,0) Font ("Arial",0,9,0)

    Selectable Off

    Label Line Arrow Position Right Auto Retry On Font ("Arial",257,7,255,16777215) Pen (1,2,0) 

      With LABEL

      Parallel On Auto On Overlap Off Duplicates On PartialSegments On Offset 2

      Visibility Zoom (0, 10) Units "mi"

  Layer 7

    Display Off

    Global Pen (1,2,0) Brush (2,16777215,16777215) Symbol (35,0,12) Line (1,2,0) Font ("Arial",0,9,0)

    Label Line None Position Center Font ("Arial",0,9,0) Pen (1,2,0) 

      With CODE

      Parallel On Auto Off Overlap Off Duplicates On Offset 2

      Visibility On

  Layer 8

    Display Off

    Global Pen (1,2,0) Brush (2,16777215,16777215) Symbol (35,0,12) Line (1,2,0) Font ("Arial",0,9,0)

    Label Line None Position Center Font ("Arial",0,9,0) Pen (1,2,0) 

      With CODE

      Parallel On Auto Off Overlap Off Duplicates On Offset 2

      Visibility On

  Layer 9

    Display Global

    Global Pen (1,2,16711935)  Brush (15,13672703)  Symbol (59,255,10)  Line (1,2,0)  Font ("Arial",0,9,0)

    Selectable Off

  contrast 40 

  brightness 60 

  alpha 255 

    transparency off 

  color 0 

    grayscale on 

  Layer 10

    Display Off

    Global Pen (1,2,0)  Brush (2,16777215,16777215)  Symbol (35,0,12)  Line (1,2,0)  Font ("Arial",0,9,0)

    Selectable Off

  contrast 50 

  brightness 50 

  alpha 255 

    transparency off 

  color 0 

    grayscale on 

Set Map Layer 0 Editable

Set Map Redraw On

Set Window FrontWindow() Title "FullMap"

Set Window FrontWindow() Printer

 Name "\\dc01\RicohC5200S" Orientation Landscape Copies 1

 Papersize 17

Thank you.

[Peter Horsbøll Møller]

Hi Matt

 

I tend to see the new layout as more dynamic compared to the old layout window.

Maybe you aren’t aware but the “map image” in the new layout is basically a real map.

 

You can grab that map and change the center and/or zoom of this instead of creating a completely new layout.

 

Peter Horsbøll Møller

Pitney Bowes

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[Michele Buselli]

You can refer to the map window by its window identifier in the Set Designer Frame statement. Get the window identifier of your map window using FrontWindow() right after you create it. Then pass that value as the argument to the From Window clause:

Set Designer Frame Id 1 From Window win_id_of_map Legends On