I have been using the Trial version of MP 2002 to test the feasibilty of a project running MP from within Visual Foxpro.

Everything seems to work fine so far apart from the Printout method.
When I call the method on a PC running XP Pro I get the error - Ole lDispatch exception code 0 from Mappoint.Application.EU.9 The RPC Server is unavailable.

When running exactly the same code on a Windows 98SE system I receive no error, but only the border of the map is printed (a square box with the scale on it) but no map!

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Andy

Just to check that it's not Visual Foxpro - I did the same test in VB, with the same results.

Andy

If you can post you Printout code we can see if something looks out of place.

The initialisation of the form just does a

thisform.olemappoint.newmap(2) to create a map

The object reference to the form is Mapping, the form contains the olemappoint object

So I can issue the line
Mapping.olemappoint.activemap.printout()

That's it!
Thanks,
Andy

Very odd problem for sure. I can only think of two things to try at this point. You may have already tried them but if not, give em a try, can't hurt...

1. Try printing to a completly different printer, printer drivers can do weird things sometimes.

2. Try using the printout method with all the parameters filled in.

objMap.PrintOut , "Test Map", 1, _
geoPrintMap, geoPrintQualityNormal, geoPrintLandscape, _
True, False, True, False

Well get this!

I decided to purchase a full version of MP and have installed it on my systems. (You must remove the Trial version first). But it is now printing OK on both systems.

FYI this is what I did....

I first tried it on the 98SE system and that worked fine, I then removed the full version from my 98SE system and re-installed the Trial version - it seems to have fixed the problem!

Next idea - 'the Trial version did not install correct the first time' - so on my XP Pro system I reinstalled the Trial again.... problem still exists... Installed the full version - problem gone!!!

The versions on both the Trial and the full version were MP 2002 (09.00.16.2001)


The Trial is supposed to be 100% the same, but with the time limit!

Regards,
Andy

Andy,

Thanks for the update, I'm glad it worked out in the end. I wouldn't be suprised if the folks from the MapPoint Team keep an eye on this forum so maybe they will make sure it is fixed in the next release of MapPoint?