Hi MP,
I really do appreciate you defining all of those types for me; I did not even know what drawing centric meant LOL
If I had to take a stab at it, I might have guessed it was at drawing level or drawing related.
I would agree with Bob and to where I initially started that writing to an external file or data source may be the best way to go.
I have done this before a bit with writing to excel and text files using The textstream method and I have also read the data back in; I guess the next step might have been trying to assign that external data to a new variable and doing something (significant) with it. I think I successfully (in the past) looped (int erated) through my layers collection, wrote it out to a
text file and was able to read it back in, then return the layers via a message box, which
then was really cool. So, with this method, I can do it, I guess I just need to expound on it.
Also, you did touch on that method in your last paragraph
4. Data retrieval code must
• ignore blank lines
• ignore extra white space between fields
• process point_type case agnosticly
• qualify data; sanity check on unique Point_IDs, report records with bogus data (but not crash) etc.
• etc.
Your first two lines can be done with The VBScript, textstream method.
Thanks,
Mark