MapBasic programs:

• EXAMPLE1.mb: Map countries with > 5 million population
• EXAMPLE2.mb: Change Menu Bar
• EXAMPLE3.mb: Read x,y data from text file and put on map
• EXAMPLE4.mb: Read x,y,z data in columns from text file and put on map
• EXAMPLE5.mb: Read x,y,z data in grid (Excel) form from file and put on map
• GMT_VEC.mb: mb prog to plot vectors
• GMT_VEC_2.mb: mb prog to plot vectors (includes call to external subroutine)
• READ_EXCEL.BAS: subroutine to read a tab-delimited Excel grid file
• NEXTNUM.BAS: subroutine to parse an input line
• CONTOUR.BAS: subroutine to create MapInfo table of contour lines from gridded data
• ANIMATE.mb: MapBasic program showing use of animated layer

Some MapBasic tasks:

Creating a table and putting objects and columns into it:

'-- create table and define columns
  create table table_name
   (Height float)

'- make table mappable so objects can be inserted into it
  create map for table_name

'-- create a rectangle object (or use 'create rect' command)
  create region into variable tobj 1 4
  (x-dx/2, y-dy/2) (x+dx/2, y-dy/2) (x+dx/2, y+dy/2) (x-dx/2, y+dy/2)

'-- t is some value to go into the table in the Height column
  t = x-y

' -- insert into table
  insert into table_name (Height, Obj) values (t, tobj)

'-- write out table
  commit table table_name as "my_table"