I have a feww questions about shapes that, hopfully someone will be able to answer:

1. is there anyway to draw a custom item on the map without using a pushpin?

2. Is there anyway to change the colour used by the drawing object to black and/or fill a shape?

3. Is there anyway to remove a drawing object from the map once its been drawn on?

If it helps, I'm trying to use show a route a vehicle took via dots where i have data logs

Cheers

M

just to expand a bit on 2, i've found the msdn example which says

Code:

objMap.Shapes.Item(1).Fill.ForeColor = vbRed

except that vbred is not a declared

M

right, lets ignore 2 and 3 I'm a blatent muppet
Have dome across another problem though, how can you tell if a dataset of pushexists already?

cheers

M

For #1, see the Add* methods, there's an AddShape method which will add geometric primitives, and AddLine / AddPolyline methods.. also AddTextBox.

I think for your last question you would loop through the Datasets collections and then see if the Name property of the Dataset matches what you're looking for..

Eric

yeah, found the add stuff and it what i'm using at the mo, is there anyway to use a gif or a bmp though instead? boss reckons it has to look "pretty"

Cheers for the second bit btw

M

I have been able to add a bmp to the map by adding a custom symbol, and assigning it to a pushpin, i can give more details if required

Can you post or attach a screenshot?

Eric

I have attatched 3 pictures, showing a custom bitmap icon, one when it is unselected, one when the user selects it with a single click and one when the user double clicks it to see the info bubble. Note that the bitmap is only a test (aka a bit crap) and also it is only a very small bitmap, i think 16x16. I know that mappoint will allow images up to at least 128x128 maybe larger, but they need to be in the correct bitmap format, i did this by photoshopping some icons, then pasting them into paint, and saving them.