There's lots of other issues with MAPSKINMAP, see the
map developer newsgroup for my experience with it.
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"Norman Yuan" wrote in message news:5243449@discussion.autodesk.com...
Anyone who uses AcadMap2006 or later knows that "MAP SKIN" is a piece of
crap that does nothing but hurt AutoCAD's performance.
If you do .NET API programming, there is yet another reason to ask Autodesk
to completely get rid of MAP SKIN (I mean remove it from Acad MAP, not just
ask user to turn it off, because some innocent user may turn it back on
without knowing all the bad things).
When you add a Windows form in your .NET API project and want to show it as
dialog box, naturally, you want to set the form's "ShowInTaskBar" Property
to "False", because it is a Dialog Box. However, if the AutoCAD MAP's map
skin is turned on, your .NET App will crush when you call
Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.ShowModalDialog(myDialog)
That is, If you want MAP SKIN, you must set the form's "ShowInTaskBar" to
True, if you want to set "ShowInTaskBar" to False (you should, since it is
dialog box), then the MAP SKIN must be turned off.
However, if the form is blank (no single control is on it), the dialog box
will show wether MAP SKIN is on or off regardless the "ShowInTaskBar"'s
setting. Once a control (such as a label, or any control) is added to the
form, it comes.
I haven't tesed this on AcadMap2007 ( I just removed AcadMap2007 from my
developing box right before I run into this issue).
