List of Available Symbols

I'm looking for a list of all of the built-in symbols that come with MapPoint 2004. I thought I'd seen one somewhere, but I can't find it. Eg. it isn't in the help file or the samples directory.
Anyone knows where there is one? Haven't found anything on Google of searching here yet. (Google gives links into the MSDN that are essentially copies of the help files).

I know I can click on the pushpin symbol on the toolbar to get a list, but I need a list of what's available and the corresponding numbers to give to someone.

Thanks

Richard
(this might be a question for the FAQ?)

In Mappoint 2004 North America, if open the help file, go to "Programming information", then "Microsoft Mappoint Visual Basic Reference", then "Properties", then "Symbol property" there is a chart with the built in symbols and their number at the bottom of the page. It only goes up to 255 though, and I thought they added more symbols to 2004 so it might be incomplete. But thats the only one ive ever seen.

Here is the online version (scroll down)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mappoint2004/BIZOMPSymbol.asp?frame=true

Thanks John and GxW for the quick replies. Yes that's the table I was thinking of - I knew I'd seen it somewhere before :-)

Now why didn't MSDN, Google, and MapPoint help find them for me :-)
Must need another coffee (or my PC needs another coffee).

Yes I thought there were more than 256, and if I remember correctly, they were inconveniently inserted in the middle?


Richard

Hi,

I have it in a bmp file nice ordered, where you eventually can grab it using x,y coordinatis. If you wants I upload it to my site or email it to you.

Thanks for the offer Wilfried, but is your bitmap of the 256 pins (as listed on the above URLs) or the full 304 list?

I have some pencil scribbles here of where the new pushpins have been inserted, and will probably be forced to produce my own bitmap, pasting the new ones in and renumbering accordingly.

If I do produce a new bitmap of the full list, I'll upload it or get Eric to post it as an article.

New pins: Flags (8 inserted at #64)
Euro & Yen symbols (between #185 and #186)
The numbers are extended from 20->50
and there's a row of 8 symbols at the end of things like fire and medical symbols.



Richard

Hi Richard,

Its the 256 list.

Thanks Wilfried - I'll get started on a new bitmap.


Richard

Just make things a bit more difficult, the pins aren't in the same order as they appear on the toolbar in MapPoint. Eg. the new numbers start at 256.

Richard

I uploaded the bmp at http://www.mestdagh.biz/mp/mp_symbols.zip

Thanks Wilfried, YHM (at your gmail account).

I now have a Word doc listing the original 2002 pushpins and the new 2004 pushpins. The listings give the pushpin numbers.

I've emailed it to Eric suggesting it is added as an article for reference, but in the meantime people can email me and I can send a copy.


Richard

Hey, guys.

We have the full symbol list broken into individual bitmaps. For the color graduated symbols like large / small circles, large / small squares, etc. we also created eight additional colors for each of the symbols. Basically, you can thematically shade using 16 colors of small squares, 16 colors of big squares and so forth. There's 289 bitmaps total.

http://www.mobileiq.biz/images/mappoint2004_symbols.jpg

You can download the .zip file from our web site, under Support > Software Downloads all the way at the bottom of the page.

http://www.mobileiq.biz

Cheers,
Chris

Chris Sciora
VP Sales & Marketing

Those aren't the standard symbols that come with MapPoint - which is what I was after,


Richard

I need to add a red flag symbol. How should I add it to the mappooint?
Thanks

A series of flag symbols were added to MapPoint 2004.


MapPoint 2004 has a red flag symbol.
Click on the pushpin symbol on the drawing toolbar (usually at the bottom). This will pop the pushpin symbol selector.
The selector also has a button labelled "Import Custom Symbol...".
Press this and you can import your own symbol designs.


Richard

Thanks for your response Richard. But I done see a red flag in the 256 available symbol in Mappoint 2004. Also is there any was to programatically from VB code add a new symbol?
Thanks in advance.

The help for MapPoint 2004 weren't updated, so they only show 256 pushpins, when in reality there are over 300.

I compiled a Word doc listing them all and their numbers (see above in this thread). Send me a message with your email, and I can email it to you.

Yes you can add symbols programmatically, use the Add() method on the Symbols collection (in turn a property of the Map object).

Richard

Eric has now published the word doc as an article on the mp2kmag site:

http://www.mp2kmag.com/a120--symbols.mappoint.html



Richard