[Therion] Import a scrap into another scrap (or th2-file)

[Andrew Atkinson]

On 08/10/17 17:50, torstein finnesand via Therion wrote:
> Yes. A friend of mine (Svein Grundstrøm) and I got the problem this year
> as well. He developed a solution in Access (some tables and the aid of
> Visual Basic) that handles the problem programmatically. Two conditions
> apply:
> 
> - The two th2-files (source and target files) must have a common point
> (station) from which the coordinate differences can be calculated.
> 
> - The two th2-files must have the same ratio between scale and
> resolution. The problem will maybe be solved in a later version, since
> the information needed is in the bottom part of the xvi-file.
> 
> If the source file contains more than one scrap, all of them are
> transferred. If one single scrap from a multi-scrap th2-file is to be
> moved, we must isolate the wanted scrap in a new th2-file before moving it.
> 
> This works fine for us. The main result was that we avoided to "code"
> some complicated joins.
> 
> But, did you Andrew create something similar? Or perhaps someone else has?

Sorry I did my original by had, well very short script to just as the
difference to the number pairs. Not needed it since so not done anything
further

Andrew

> 
> It would be nice to have a feature like this in the Therion map editor.
> But I guess that could be considered only if others think it's useful.
> 
> Torstein
>