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OK workaround; but why doesn't creating a document class generate one of these automatically?

The File open dialog should list document classes in the "files of type" dropdown. I use Textpad to write code in a language (MapBasic) whose compiler puts intermediate (object and error list) files in the same folder as the source code, and the linker expects these files in the same place. When I ...

Gah. Some of the folks on Mapinfo-L gave me a gentle reminder about the DOS "type" command, which I'd forgotten about completely. This would turn MBTextpad.bat into @echo off if %1 == %2 goto link mapbasic -Nosplash -D %1 goto ckerr :link mapbasic -Nosplash -L %1 :ckerr if exist %3 type %3 We still ...

I posted this to the MapInfo Mailing List in response to a user's query regarding the use of MapBasic(R) with TextPad. In 2003, Niels Fahse posted a useful MapBasic syntax definition file to the TextPad website, but there isn't a good description for compiling and linking MapBasic code. MapBasic is ...