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Greetings,

I'm having a hard time getting any label to display with a pushpin. I CAN get the baloons to display, but those have a Windows Close box on them. And I find it annoying for MapPoint to serially number each pushpin, 1,2,3, and on.

Is there a way to override this automatic behavior and for me to define what the label will say?

Thanks.

Hi,

Can you please explain what exacly the problem is ? I do not understeand (my native language is not english), but in my balloons it displayes exacly what I want. I do not understeand the eniummeration you tell us.

If you have trouble with the 'x' button to close the balloons then you can eventually redesplay them if a positsion is upgraded. but you have to tell wht you wants.

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Hi,

I was trying to find a different way to display test about a pushpin location, but I decided the balloons will work for me. They are easy to work with and will dispay what I want. The real problem I have is that when I display a route, MapPoint displays the waypoints, which are problematic for me.

I use the same base station (a pizza shop) as the start and end point for lots of routes (pizza delivery runs), which means that MapPoint will need to draw each waypoint number associated with the base station. You know how MP draws the waypoints if the driver departs the base, makes two deliveries, and comes home again? The base station gets a waypoint of 1 AND 4. If I have three delivery runs to show at the same time, and if one run is a single, one run is a double, and another run is a triple, the base station will have waypoints numbered 1,3,4,5, which is very confusing for someone to look at. I'd rather suppress waypoing labels, but don't know how.

Anybody know how to suppress it?

Thanks,
Bob

Hi,

I think the idea is not to delete the waypoint numbers ( I think it is not possible ), but to REORDER them programmatically.

The other idea is to delete the Route after each calculation and let
a pushPin or Text in each Waypoint.

For the first idea, you can see this example and see how to do it.



Regards

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www.AtlasCouscous.com

The following code is run from EXCEL and creates a map from columns in a spreadsheet. As below. I would like to take the second column Drop Number (strloca) and put it in the label ahead of the address line. Only the address shows up there. I haven’t been able to get this to work. I think it’s in the add waypoint function that I need to do this. Do you have any suggestions ?

Regards Mark





Dim oApp As MapPoint.Application

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()

On Error Resume Next

Dim strLoc As String
Dim strLoca As String
Dim strLocb As String
Dim strLocd As String
Dim strLoc1 As String
Dim strLoc2 As String
Dim strLoc3 As String
Dim rowptr As Integer

rowptr = 1


Set oApp = CreateObject("MapPoint.Application.NA.13")



oApp.Visible = True
Set objMap = oApp.NewMap()

'code goes here to add to route

Dim objRoute As MapPoint.Route
Set objRoute = objMap.ActiveRoute

' get data from row in excel

Do
strLoc0 = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(rowptr, 1)
strLoca = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(rowptr, 2)
strLocb = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(rowptr, 4)
strLoc1 = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(rowptr, 5)
strLoc2 = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(rowptr, 6)
strLoc3 = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(rowptr, 7)



If (strLoc0 <> “”) Then

' skip header row

If (strLoc0 <> "Route key") Then

' concatenate data into a string if there is data

strLoc = strLoc1 + "," & strLoc2 + "," & strLoc3

' concatenate drop and Name for pushpin

strLocd = strLoca + "," & strLocb

objRoute.Waypoints.Add objMap.FindResults(strLoc).Item(1)

'add pushpin

Set objLoc = objMap.FindAddressResults( _
Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(rowptr, 5), _
Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(rowptr, 6), _
Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(rowptr, 7))(1)

objMap.AddPushpin objLoc, strLocd

End If

End If
rowptr = rowptr + 1
Loop While (strLoc0 <> “”)


objRoute.Calculate


'Zoom to the route



End Sub

Hi,

I'm not sure I understeand what you mean. Do you wants to give a name to a waypoint that it has to display ? Then this is how you do:


Can you next time put your code into [ code] [ /code] tags (without the spaces) please ?

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rgds, Wilfried Mestdagh
www.mestdagh.biz
MapPoint coding demo
Order MapPoint 2009 with Routing and User Tools Spreadsheet

That is exactly what I needed. Many thanks.



Regards Mark