Create Label with Angle

[DenCop (NL)]

Hi all,

Is it possible to create an Label with an angle? For every item the
angle can be different.

DenCop

[Driver, Greg 9434]

DenCop,

You can rotate labels using the Rotate Labels tool (under Tools -> Tool Manager). This will allow you to select a column in the table which holds the rotation angle value. Alternatively, you can enter a fixed value.

If you need to see how to do it using MapBasic, then have a look at the source code for this tool.

HTH

Greg Driver

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Hi all,

DenCop

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[Peter Horsbøll Møller]

And if you don't want to create custom labels to have rotated labels, you need to create a line rotated in the direction you want your text to appear.

There was a thread recently about how to do that:
http://groups.google.dk/group/mapinfo-l/browse_thread/thread/077474c423372f6c?hl=da

Peter Horsbøll Møller
Pitney Bowes Business Insight - MapInfo

2010/2/4 Driver, Greg 9434 <94...@surrey.pnn.police.uk>

[DenCop (NL)]

Thanks Greg, I`ll look into the mapbasic file.

On Feb 4, 5:22 pm, "Driver, Greg 9434" <9...@surrey.pnn.police.uk>
wrote:
> DenCop,
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[DenCop (NL)]

Peter,

I do not understand what you are saying. :-(

DenCop

On Feb 4, 7:59 pm, Peter Horsbøll Møller <mapinf...@horsboll-

[Peter Horsbøll Møller]

Am I talking nonsense :-)

 

I was guessing that you want to add labels to a point layer. Unfortunately a point doesn't have a rotation that can be used to rotate the label. MapInfo can rotate labels according to the direction of a line - to make the label follow the line.

 

So to get around this problem, you can convert your point into a line that is rotated using the rotation from a column.

 

Peter Horsbøll Møller
Pitney Bowes Business Insight - MapInfo

2010/2/5 DenCop (NL) <den...@gmail.com>

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The correct MapBasic syntax is

Set Map Layer layer_id Label Object ID Angle text_angle

where layer_id is a string or integer, ID is the integer row number of the object to which the label belongs, and text_angle is the angle in degrees of the rotated text.

Official documentation of this syntax is found in the MapBasic reference manual under Set Map → Managing Individual Label Properties.