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Manifold System 7.00 is out! Manifold System Release 7x provides a Manifold Image Server Interface that can be used to write modules supporting various image servers available on the web. Third parties have written open source modules for 7x to support Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth and Yahoo! Maps. Click Here to download a zipfile containing the open source .dlls, already compiled and ready for installation and use. Unzip the file and follow instructions in the text file. Important: These are not Manifold products and are not supported by Manifold Technical Support. Do not contact manifold.net with questions about source code availability or about these modules: these modules have been written by third parties unrelated to manifold.net and any issues about publication of source code or functionality are not in the control of manifold.net Contacting manifold.net with questions about these things will mark you as someone who cannot read and follow simple instructions and will permanently exclude you from participation in beta testing or other Manifold benefits for the developer community. Open source works only if people do not abuse the access it confers.

Scripting examples show various techniques in the context of real tasks. Although some may be used as utilities, the main intention is to present examples of programming techniques and use of Manifold facilities. See the Comments component in each project for notes. For general questions on Manifold System see the online edition of the User Manual.

In addition to general scripting examples, the ScriptTableNwindActive example listed below illustrates the use of Active Columns using JavaScript and VBScript.

Copy Objects, Create Record	ScriptCopyCreate - A very small example containing two scripts: copy objects from one drawing to another and create a record in a table.
Create Centroids	ScriptCentroids - Creates centroids and weighted centroids for sets of cities in each country in a drawing.
Assign data values to quartiles	ScriptQuartiles - Given a numeric column in a table, create a new integer column that for each given value assigns a number from 1 to 4 stating the quartile in which that value occurs. A simple example.
Copy objects to new drawing	ScriptCopyObjects - Copy selected objects in the active drawing to a new drawing.
Spatial operations	ScriptSpatialOperations - Three scripts demonstrating various spatial operations on a map of Europe. “Create Circle around Each City” creates a circular area around each city object taking the radius of the area from a table column. “Transfer Country Name to Each City” mimics the internal workings of spatial overlays and adds a country name to each city using the name of the country it is in. “Transfer Country Name to Each City using Query” does the same but uses a service query instead of the obvious two loops (and thus, runs much faster).
Create b-splines from selected points	ScriptBSpline - Two scripts: Join points selected within the active drawing window with a closed b-spline, or an open 3-spline that runs through all points. The order of points on a spline is determined by their IDs.
Smooth selected lines using b-splines	ScriptBSpline2 - A script to "splinerize" selected lines. Replaces selected lines with b-splines to provide a smoother line. A great way to convert unsmooth lines into smoothly curved lines. Manifold 6.00 also includes a Spline transform in the transform toolbar.
Import / Export Drawings in Text Formats	ScriptTextFormats - Manifold System Release 4.50 included utilities for reading data from simple ASCII formats. These scripts provide examples of that functionality implemented with 6.00 scripting. Scripts import/export drawings to an ASCII format, and can import networks (drawings of lines and points) from an ASCII format.
Compute NDVI from AVHRR images	ScriptNDVI - Computes NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) using Band 1 and Band 2 and puts result into NDVI. Displays computation progress in status bar. Missing values are handled properly. Band 1 and and 2 are parts of an AVHRR import. Display Options for all three surfaces are set to render height with shading and autocontrast options turned off. See http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/MeasuringVegetation/ for info on NDVI.
Transfer Selections / Select Pixels within 50 Meters	ScriptTransferSelection - Contains two scripts, one of which transfers a selection from a drawing to an image (a script version of the Transfer Selection command in map windows). The second script performs a more complicated task by selecting pixels that are within 50 meters of selected drawing objects. Both scripts track their progress in the status bar.
Create Lines by Azimuth and Distance Pairs	ScriptAzimuthLines - Creates lines using set of azimuth (bearing) and distance pairs stored in a table.
Report and change coordinate systems (projections)	ScriptCoordinateSystems - Two scripts, one of which reports the number of objects and the coordinate system of each drawing. The other projects a sample drawing into a customized version of the Mercator projection.
Basic Form Controls	ScriptForms - Demonstrates the use of several basic controls: textbox, list and buttons. Uses VBScript.
"Hello, World!"	ScriptHello - The classic "Hello, World!" first program implemented in JavaScript, VBScript, PerlScript and PythonScript.
Mass Import	ScriptImpoftFolder - Imports all MapInfo MIF/MID files within a user-specified folder and all of its subfolders.
Create Random Points	ScriptRandomPoints - Creates a drawing of points using records taken from a data table. Point locations are random.
Join Points into a Line	ScriptSequentialLines - Joins points selected within the active drawing window with a line.
Surface selection examples	ScriptSurfaces - Three scripts: Select pixels between given heights; Compute average height and select pixels below that height. Compute slope of each pixel and select pixels with values of slope less than 25%. All three scripts track operation progress within the status bar.
Table selection examples	ScriptTableGeneric - Two scripts working with tables and Active Columns: Select all records with a value in the Active Column equal to that in the active cell. Check if an Active Column is a Date type and if so select all records whose year and month are the same as the active cell.
Table manipulation examples	ScriptTableNwind - Uses excerpts from the Nwind.mdb sample database in five scripts: Add a relation between tables, remove relations and rank columns (Decision Support System), Create a sales by city report table, select products based on a category from a different table, use a rank column to find a young but experienced employee.
Active Column examples	ScriptTableNwindActive - Six tables using excerpts from Nwind.mdb to illustrate the use of Active Columns using JavaScript and VBScript: Determine language from country; Find full name, age and years on the job of employees; Compute unit prices from base price and discount; Compute the shipping delay of an order; Find the average price and category name of products using a lookup in other tables; Find the number of supplied products per supplier a table lookup.
Forms and tables	ScriptTableNwindForms - Two forms using several tables at once from Nwind.mdb that illustrate the use of forms with tables: Category Viewer - Walks through categories displaying a list of products for current category. Employee Viewer - Walks through employees displaying properties of current employee.

Change coordinate systems (projections) of several project components at once. Install as add-in.	CoordSystemAssigner - A sophisticated example of a COM addin that interacts with Manifold. The hyperlink is to the csa.zip file that ncludes CoordSystemAssigner.zip and CoordSystemAssignerSetup.msi files in a single file. CoordSystemAssignerSetup.msi (6.00 SP1): An addin for 6.00 SP1. Should be installed into the Config folder of an existing Manifold installation. CoordSystemAssigner.zip (5.00): contains step-by-step instructions on creating a C++ COM object using Visual Studio .NET that uses the Manifold object model to simultaneously assign a coordinate system to several components as well as instructions on wrapping this module into a Manifold addin and creating a setup program that installs this addin on any machine. The archive also contains full source code for the COM module, full source code for the VB .NET program used to test the module in early stages of development (see documentation), addin files and the entire setup project created in Click here to read VC_CoordSystem documentation. The MSI requires 6.00 SP1. The ZIP requires 5.00, but changes required for 6.00 are trivial.
Export all tables in a Manifold project to an Excel Workbook	VB_maptoxls - This example contains a step-by-step tutorial on creating a VB.NET program that uses the Manifold object model to export all tables within an arbitrary mapfile to an Excel workbook. The zip file contains complete source of the final iteration of the sample and two test files demonstrating its use. Click here to read VB_maptoxls documentation.
Release 7x Object Model	A chart of the Manifold System7x object model. Download as a PDF File or browse on the web as a PNG file

VBScript User's Guide and VBScript Reference	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/vtoriVBScript.asp
VBScript and Jscript User's Guide and Reference in downloadable form	http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/728/msdncompositedoc.xml
VBScript Primer	http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/maintain/optimize/script/NETVBScr.asp
A short list of VBScript features for VB6	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/partbook/egvb6/programmingwithvbscript.htm
The TechNet Script Center with numerous VBScript samples for doing various system administration tasks	http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/scriptcenter/default.asp