I think you will need to make the drawing toolbar visible and let the user click it.

There is this thread that explains how to extend the activex control to allow you to get things not otherwise available like the location sensor but I'm not sure about drawing tool selection.

Access some hidden features in MapPoint2002 ActiveX control
http://www.mp2kmag.com/mappoint/disc...extend+activex

Thx, I've got the drawing function with extending the ActiveX

(for people that are interested in the c# code:

Code:

[DllImport("user32", EntryPoint="PostMessage")] public static extern int PostMessageA(int hwnd, int wMsg, int wParam, int lParam); 

[DllImport("user32", EntryPoint="FindWindowEx")] public static extern int FindWindowExA(int hWnd1, int hWnd2, string lpsz1, string lpsz2); 

windowhandler = MapControl.Handle.ToInt32();   
windowhandler = FindWindowExA(windowhandler,0,"ATL:10022070","");
windowhandler = FindWindowExA(windowhandler,0,"AfxFrameOrView42","");

(this gets the correct handler)

PostMessageA(windowhandler,273,58205,0);  //freehand drawing 
PostMessageA(windowhandler,273,35313,0);  // displays dialog with icons you can show
PostMessageA(windowhandler,273,58224,0); // measure distance
PostMessageA(windowhandler,273,35488,0);  //Changes the globeview between square and circle
PostMessageA(windowhandler,273,35316-35320,0);//changes fontsize
PostMessageA(windowhandler,273,35391-35394,0);//changes the shown data

Originally Posted by Anonymous

How can i adjust the preferred arrival and departure time of a waypoint??? I'm working with C#.

I tried several options:

way = ActiveMap.ActiveRoute.Waypoints.Add(pin,name);
way.PreferredArrival = preferredarrivalarray[i];

Doesn't work, it says "Access denied"

ActiveMap.ActiveRoute.Waypoints[i].PreferredArrival = preferredarrivalarray[i];

Also doesnt work now it says:

"Property, indexer, or event 'this' is not supported by the language; try directly calling accessor method 'MapPoint.Waypoints.get_Item(ref object)"

ActiveMap.ActiveRoute.Waypoints.get_Item(This expects an object but wath object????? )

Can anyone help?

The problem resides in the fact that you only have one waypoint in the route. As soon as you add more than one waypoint the problem disappears.

The example in VB always adds 2 waypoints to the route.
If you change the code to only add one waypoint you will get the error.

Just make sure you have at least 2 waypoints in your route.

Unfortunately MapPoint works fine when you only have one waypoint in your route. But the API does not allow it!!!!!!


Robert.

Hi,

In addition it is maybe interesting to mention that you can do anything that has a shortcut key in mappoint also in code by using the win32 api call keybd_evtent.

eg this code first popup the popup window in mappoint, select a pushpin andmove the balloon to lower right. It go very fast, a 'normal' user will not see what happens.

Code:

            const byte VK_APPS = 93;
            const int KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = 2;
            PP.Select();
            Win32.keybd_event(VK_APPS, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);  // popup window
            Win32.keybd_event((byte)'O', 0, 0, 0);              // Orientation
            Win32.keybd_event((byte)'L', 0, 0, 0);              // Lower right
            unSelectPushPin(PP);

The definition for keybd_event is this:

Code:

public extern static void keybd_event(byte bVk, byte bScan, int dwFlags, int dwExtraInfo);

Also remember keyboard keys are always capital letters (just think on the history of a computer)