MapBasic Developer's Guide (Paperback)

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Product Description

MapBasic Developer's Guide is a handbook for customizing MapInfo Professional. The book begins with a tutorial on MapBasic elements, the MapBasic development environment, and program building basics. Subsequent chapters focus on the customizing and editing of all program components.

About the Author

Angela Whitener is a senior systems consultant for MPSI, Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Prior to MPSI, she was a software engineer for E-Systems in Dallas, Texas. A GIS software and consultant since 1992, Angela has co-authored Mapping with Microsoft Office (OnWord Press, 1996) and MapBasic Developer's Guide (OnWord Press, 1997) with Bill Creath. She holds a BS in mathematics and computer science from Oklahoma State University and an MS in human relations and business from Amber University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 579 pages
• Publisher: OnWord Press; 1 edition (November 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566901138
• ISBN-13: 978-1566901130
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,825,718 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars MapBasic - develop your own GIS!, February 15, 2000

By	Michelle Smith (Australia) - See all my reviews

Well, maybe not quite, but close. Ideal for those with a moderate to good programming background (I'm definately the former). You need to own MapBasic (which isn't bundled with MapInfo)to get the most out of the book, but you may be interested to know that it goes into a reasonable amount of detail re: linking with VB. Write the application in VB and send it to MapInfo, no need for MapBasic!. Comes with a floppy disk with over 4Mb of example code, including a basic Map Viewer developed in VB. I'm "teaching myself MapBasic" and, although I have some programming background, I'm finding this book invaluable. Good for creating those mini-apps to automate tedious, repetitive tasks.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars As Is no Warranty, December 8, 2000

By	James D. Gross "radio_freq" (Humble, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This book contains a lot of useful information in the way of sample code. Unfortunately the sample code has little in the way of step by step explanations. If I wanted to wade through someone elses code figuring it out for myself I would go to the Online archives. This book is absolutely not for the beginner and will make an intermediate think twice about what you've gotten yourself into. There are also many errors in the index which makes looking up information quite difficult as well. In all I would say it's a decent book but it could have been put together a lot better and could have provided readers with better explanations of what was going on in the samples. One section around page 200 has 3 pages of text followed by 29 pages of Code then followed up with 3 more pages of text. I really feel that code imbedded comments are not sufficient when readers are trying to fully understand the programming language.

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for inexperienced developers, March 21, 2000

By A Customer

Not bad for inexperienced developers. The integrated mapping section seems to have been copied directly out of the Mapbasic users guide - you'd be better off with the Mapbasic users guide.