I was looking though some old marketing materials and found a video of an ArcView project we did back in 1999-2000. I’m laughing as I look at it, partly because we’ve come such a long way and partly because I remember all the hacks we had to perform (making those tabs appear was an amazing pain in the ass). I showed it to the primary Avenue programmer and he just wanted to walk out the door. I’m guessing he didn’t want to remember the pain that project caused him. If you look at the toolbar, you’ll see a little “zipper icon” that people named the zipper tool. If I remember correctly it took the area out of the polygons and updated the area field in the back end database. We always had to remind people to “run the zipper tool” after updating any layers. Ah those were the days. Click on images for larger view.
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Tom Kralidis
// Jul 8, 2006 at 6:51 am
Retro GIS — I love it! Your article made me revisit some of my old avenue class notes (http://www.kralidis.ca/gis/avenue/). Thanks for the memories
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David Wright
// Jul 8, 2006 at 7:56 pm
What is really sad is I know both that post and that app. I worked on a precursor to it. Now I feel really old!
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Ryan Arp
// Jul 9, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Wow. Maybe I missed it, but where is your Bex icon?
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James Fee
// Jul 10, 2006 at 9:39 am
Yea no Bex in this project. I thought the “zipper tool” was enough.
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Lawrence
// Oct 24, 2006 at 3:08 pm
James,
Liked this too, it not only reminded me of my Avenue lessons and tutorials, back in Zimbabwe, but is also a akin to the pain that I have to go through writing very simple mapbasic programmes today in the UK! If you think life was tough under Avenue, then it is hell in MapBasic !
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