hi,

i ask in Mapoint Forum to "speed-up" setting PushPin and got  a Answer

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my old Code use FindAdressResult() and it take a long time to set 3000
Pushpin. now i try to use GPS Koodinate, but

oLocation := ::oMap:ActiveMap:GetLocation(x,y,100)

is not faster than my old Code ?

any Tips how to set 3000 Pushpin "faster" ?
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Both calls, FindAddressResult and GetLocation and setting the associated
pushpin involve "out-of-process" invocation and data marshaling to and from
MapPoint.  The actual work done (time spent) by MapPoint executing both
calls is a small fraction of the actual overhead for invocation and data
marshaling.  Thus, the speed will be similar.

IMO, you the delay for each pushpin placement is something that you have to
live with.  It is slow.

Dick

Richard Grier (Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic) Hard & Software 12962 West
Louisiana Avenue Lakewood, CO 80228 303-986-2179 (voice) Homepage:
www.hardandsoftware.net Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial
Communications, 4th Edition ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages) published July
2004, Revised July 2006.
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i do understand that activeX have a Overhead, but if i need > 2,5 hour to
set 3000 Pushpin (P4, 3Ghz, 2GB, 7200rpm,ATi9600XT) and show new
Position on Map every 3-4sec ... what happend within activeX for 2 sec ?

it is like i try to fill a Excel Spreedsheet "Cell by Cell" with each Item,
but i know to use :Range():value := aExcel so i can use a Array fill hole
:Range():value in a one Second.

so i ask if there any "tricks", like a 2-dim Array, and than pass hole
Array?

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any Idee how to "speed-up" Xbase++ activeX / Mappoint to "reduce Overhead" ?

greetings by OHR
Jimmy

AUGE_OHR wrote:

> 
> IMO, you the delay for each pushpin placement is something that you have to
> live with.  It is slow.

lol - so the basic message should be "ActiveX is crap"?

thomas

hi,

>> IMO, you the delay for each pushpin placement is something that you have 
>> to
>> live with.  It is slow.
>
> lol - so the basic message should be "ActiveX is crap"?

i got a other Msg

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Hi Jimmy,

I just did a test on a slower machine than yours. Putting 500 pushpins
on a map take here 36 seconds. So 3000 should take around 4 minutes. If
you do a win32 call to LockWindowsUpdate then the 500 pushpins take 10
seconds here.

So you have to examine your application to find out what it do during
the 2.5 hour! Since this is a very huge time you can eventually already
see what takes long if stepping with the debugger in it. It must be
something that takes almost 3 seconds! (of course it can be multiple
things together but you will find out soon)

rgds, Wilfried
Microsoft MapPoint MVP
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it it not activeX itself ... it is "something" inside Xbase++ activeX which 
make
the Difference.

i did not test it with Jazzage or YUKON, but 4min vs. 2 1/2Std ... hm ...

what can Wilfired "meen2 with "do a win32 call to LockWindowsUpdate" ?

greetings by OHR
Jimmy

hi,

> lol - so the basic message should be "ActiveX is crap"?

after i was told "how fast" activeX can be i have done some more work

DBF 225 Records

a.) strip down Xbase++ Code to "minimum" using FindAddressResults()
and just use 1st Item oLocation := oResult:Item(1)

nComplet : 90.21
per Rec : 0.40

nSumFind : 0.14 -> FindAddressResults()
nSumGoto : 0.02 -> Goto(oLocation)
nSumAdd : 0.18 -> AddPushPin()

these 3 activeX call use 0.34sec, all other is Xbase++ (here 0.06)
this is much, much better ... but still far away from "what is possible"

b.) while i use Xbase (here without ++) i can use same Source Code with 
"other" Compiler

nComplet :     22.95
per Rec  :      0.10

nSumFind :      0.04
nSumGoto :      0.01
nSumAdd  :      0.04

and here my Code
*** start ***
PROCEDURE ShowMap(oWnd,oStatic)
LOCAL cLicCalendar := "Mappoint Control 9.0 Runtime License"
LOCAL cVer         := "11"
LOCAL nMode        := 1
LOCAL ClsCalendar  := "{8F78D7FC-BAE4-46A4-A79A-052356AB3DD4}"
*LOCAL ClsCalendar  := "MapPoint.Control"   +"."+ cVerCalendar
LOCAL oMapDlg
LOCAL aSize        :=  oStatic:currentsize()

*  oMapDlg := WvgActiveXControl():New( oWnd   , , {0,0}, aSize, , .t. )
   oMapDlg := WvgActiveXControl():New( oStatic, , {0,0}, aSize, , .t. )

   oMapDlg:CLSID   := ClsCalendar
   oMapDlg:license := cLicCalendar
   oMapDlg:Cargo   := "Mappoint"
   oMapDlg:create()

   oMapDlg:BorderStyle  := 1  has border
   oMapDlg:Appearance   := 1  border is 3D
   oMapDlg:NewMap( geoMapEurope )
   oMapDlg:Units := geoKm

   #IFDEF __XPP__
   #ELSE
*   oWnd:sendMessage( WM_SIZE, 0, 0 )
*   oWnd:Hide()
   #ENDIF
   oWnd:Show()

   China2Loc(oMapDlg)

RETURN

PROCEDURE China2Loc(oMap)
LOCAL cText
LOCAL cTelNo
LOCAL nCount := 0
LOCAL oLocation
LOCAL aLoc   := {}
LOCAL aSize := {400,300}
LOCAL aPos
LOCAL oPushPin := NIL
LOCAL nProz
LOCAL cProz
LOCAL nLen
LOCAL oResult
LOCAL cNeuNo
LOCAL nStart
LOCAL nStop
LOCAL nSumFind := 0
LOCAL nSumAdd  := 0
LOCAL nSumGoto := 0
LOCAL nComplet := 0
LOCAL nDiff
LOCAL imax

   SET ALTER TO HbAsiaMap.TXT
   SET ALTER ON

   oMap:Show()

   oMap:ActiveMap:ActiveRoute:Clear()

   SELECT 1
   USE (zPATH+"ASIA06.DBF") EXCLUSIVE
   nLen := LASTREC()
   GO TOP

   nComplet := SECONDS()
   DO WHILE !EOF()
      SELECT 1

      cTelNo := " 0"+ALLTRIM(ASIA06->VORWAHL)+"/"+ALLTRIM(ASIA06->TELEFON)
      cText  := TRIM(ASIA06->NAME)+CRLF+;
                TRIM(ASIA06->STRASSE)+CRLF+;
                ASIA06->PLZ+" "+ASIA06->ORT

      cNeuNo := "B"+STRZERO(RECNO(),4)
      REPLACE ASIA06->NeuNr WITH cNeuNo

      nStart   := SECONDS()
      oResult  := oMap:ActiveMap:FindAddressResults( ;
                                 TRIM(ConvToOEMCP(ASIA06->Strasse)),;
                                 TRIM(ConvToOEMCP(ASIA06->Ort    )),;
                                 NIL,;
                                 NIL,;
                                 TRIM(ConvToOEMCP(ASIA06->PLZ    )),;
                                 geoCountryGermany  )

      nStop    := SECONDS()
?     nDiff    := (nStop-nStart)
      nSumFind := nSumFind +nDiff

?     imax := oResult:Count()
      oLocation := oResult:Item(1)  just use 1st Item

      nStart   := SECONDS()
      oLocation:goto()
      nStop    := SECONDS()
?     nDiff    := (nStop-nStart)
      nSumGoto := nSumGoto +nDiff

      nStart   := SECONDS()
      oPushPin := oMap:ActiveMap:AddPushpin(oLocation,ASIA06->NeuNr )
      oPushPin:Symbol := 86
      oPushPin:Note   := cTelNo+CRLF+cText
      AADD(aLoc,oLocation)
      nStop    := SECONDS()
?     nDiff    := (nStop-nStart)
      nSumAdd  := nSumAdd +nDiff

? ""
      SELECT 1
      nCount++
      SKIP
*      IF nCount > 10
         EXIT
      ENDIF
   ENDDO

   IF LEN(aLoc) > 0
      oMap:ActiveMap:Union(aLoc):goto()
   ENDIF

   oMap:SaveMapAs("HbAsiaMap")

   ? "***************"
   ? ""
   ? "nComplet :"+STR( SECONDS()-nComplet        ,10,2)
   ? "per Rec  :"+STR((SECONDS()-nComplet)/nCount,10,2)
   ? ""
   ? "nSumFind :"+STR( nSumFind / nCount,10,2)
   ? "nSumGoto :"+STR( nSumGoto / nCount,10,2)
   ? "nSumAdd  :"+STR( nSumAdd  / nCount,10,2)
   ? ""

   SET ALTER OFF
   SET ALTER TO

RETURN
*** eof ***

while both are activeX call i wonder about so much Difference in Time ?

greetings by OHR
Jimmy