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D you also have access to Batch Mode and the Matrix DLLs. If You Need More Help If you find yourself stuck or in need of additional assistance, please contact our Technical Support department. NOTE: You must be a registered user to receive Caliper Technical Support Services. Register your software by faxing or mailing in the registration card that came with your software package, or by filling out the Caliper Corporation Inter registration form at Caliper Corporation software support services are subject to support fees and terms in place at the time the services are used. You can get technical support from Caliper Corporation in four ways: 1. FAX your requests for help to (617) 5275113. 2. Check the technical support notes at Caliper Corporation’s World Wide Web site (). 3. Send via the Inter to . 4. Call Caliper Technical Support at (617) 5278617. You can reach TransCAD Technical Support by telephone between 8:30 . and 5:30 ., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. When you call, please be at your puter, have your documentation available, and be prepared to provide the following information: • The product registration number • Your name and anization • The version of the product you are using – choose HelpAbout to check your version number • The exact wording of any messages that appear on your screen Introduction As an experienced TransCAD user, you may have thought about how nice it would be to automate some task that you perform on a regular basis, so you could acplish it by clicking a single button or choosing a single menu item. Perhaps you have thought about creating a custom application, one that has a subset of the capabilities of TransCAD, but anized and structured differently to appeal to a particular audience. You may also have thought about calling TransCAD from another programming environment, such as Visual Basic, to provide transportation analysis or mapping services to an application, such as finding a route or displaying a map around a location. If you have had these thoughts, the GIS Developer’s Kit is for you. GISDK lets you customize and extend the capabilities of TransCAD in almost any way you like. There are three types of things you can do with GISDK:  Create addins that extend the capabilities of TransCAD or that automate repeated operations  Build custom applications that extend or replace the standard interface to provide customized program operation  Access TransCAD as an Automation Server to add maps or transportation analysis functions to your own programs In addition, the planning and the routing and logistics procedures in standard TransCAD offer Batch Mode as a way to build code for applications that you can then run repeatedly without the need for user intervention. For more information, see: About AddIns About Custom Applications About Batch Mode About Accessing TransCAD as an Automation Server GISDK System Requirements Starting GISDK Starting the GISDK Debugger About AddIns An addin is a program that you can add to TransCAD that accesses TransCAD databases and functions to carry out the capabilities that you require. You create addins by writing the macros or dialog boxes you want to use, piling these macros or dialog boxes, and installing them as addins. Once installed, you or other TransCAD users can run the addin by choosing the ToolsAdd Ins mand and then picking the addin you want. Addins can be very simple, or very plex. The simplest addins are macros that run when you choose them, without any user interaction. More plicated addins display dialog boxes that let users choose the settings or options that they want to use when the macro is run. The most plex addins are custom toolboxes that provide users with access to tools, buttons, and other controls that you have programmed. These toolboxes look just like the toolboxes you are used to seeing in TransCAD. About Custom Applications GISDK lets you create a mapping application program with your own user interface. You design the menus, toolbars, toolboxes, and dialog boxes, and you program the application to respond to user actions in any way you want. Your user interface can be added to the standard interface, typically as one or more additional menus, or can be a pletely customized user interface. You create a custom application by writing the menus, toolbars, macros, and dialog boxes you need, piling all of these different types of resources, and installing the custom interface as an addin. Once installed, you can create your own program icon in any Windows program group to run the custom application, or start the program in the usual way and then choose between the standard interface and your custom interface. Like addins, custom applications can be very simple (with only a single window and a limited set of menu items) or very plex. The standard interface of TransCAD itself is an example of a very plex custom application, written entirely using GISDK. The online help provides descriptions of how to call many of the standard interface macros, for opening files, setting styles, and other tasks. About Batch Mode Standard TransCAD offers Batch Mode as a way of recording and running planning procedures and routing and logistics procedures. For the planning procedures, Batch Mode provides facilities for building integrated model applications, creating custom user interfaces for planning models, and running models without user intervention (., in Batch Mode). In addition to running models interactively, TransCAD provides great flexibility in building plete model applications, with attractive user interfaces that are easy to learn and use. There are several advantages to creating a GISDK program that runs some or all of y。