Hello fellow AVers, It's clear that many of us have limited knowledge of what's in that "samples" folder that comes with ArcView, and frankly, even if you know it's there, it's not obvious how to find out what "mvgra2pt.ave" does or how to use it. So, I went ahead and created a simple list of sample scripts, extensions, and other utilities included with my installation of ArcView. Along with the name of the script or extension is a brief description (really just it's title copied from the help topic box). To see more information about a script or extension on the list, go to the on-line help, search for “samples”, then choose scripts or extensions or other as appropriate. This will give you a list, choose to display the one you are interested in. I hope that someone will find this enlightening, hey, I did, and I've used these things for years. It looks pretty ugly here but if you're interested, I'll send it to you as a WORD document attachment. Have fun. Kathi Hannaford, Union Co. GIS khannaford@unionco.org Sample scripts and extensions included with ArcView 3.1 Sample scripts addcolor.ave Adds color from selected graphic to color palette addconv.ave Converts ARC/INFO .ADD file to Shapefile addgshp.ave Creates GraphicShapes and Symbols for a View addrecno.ave Adds a Recno attribute to all active Ftabs addtheme.ave Adds a theme to a view addtmenu.ave Adds a ToolMenu (pull-down tool) to a DocGUI addxycoo.ave Adds X and Y coordinates of features to Attribute Table aiconnct.ave Connects to an ARC/INFO Server aiserver.ave Making and using an ArcView to ARC/INFO RPC connection aligngra.ave Aligns selected graphics in a layout or view avheader.ave Defines the content of the script header bivarleg.ave Creates a bivariate legend for a theme bvreg.ave Performs Bivariate Regression and Makes Scatter Chart calcacre.ave Calculates acres for polygon shapes calcapl.ave Calculates feature geometry values calcdist.ave Calculates distances from points in one theme to points in another contlab.ave Labels selected features with text groups along the path creatmnu.ave Creates a menu item with active themes as choices custleg.ave Customize Color Ramps and Schemes cvtplply.ave Converts polylines in the active theme to polygons cvtplypl.ave Converts polygons in active theme to polylines dd2dms.ave Converts DecimalDegrees values to DegreesMinutesSeconds DDECRESS.AVE Use DDE to create a Spreadsheet in Excel DDESYSIT.AVE Demonstrates a DDE conversation with Excel dictsel.ave Returns value from selected key in a dictionary dms2dd.ave Converts DegreesMinutesSeconds values to DecimalDegrees edtimglg.ave Edits the legend for single band image theme edtscrpt.ave Edits Avenue scripts in system editor encprj.ave Encrypts and saves current project encscrpt.ave Encrypts and Embeds a script into current project envtrans.ave Transforms dynamic segmentation events from one route theme to another evntxfrm.ave Transforms dynamic segmentation events from one route theme to another expclean.ave Cleans and exports shapes of themes explode.ave Converts multi-part polygons to single-part polygons exptlay.ave Exports a layout file suitable for printing exptview.ave Exports a View to file suitable for printing extscrpt.ave Extracts script from project findnear.ave Finds feature nearest to a point fldprops.ave Displays field properties fndstrng.ave Finds specified string a script genfeat.ave Removes unneeded vertices from selected features geocode.ave Geocodes addresses in a Table to a matchable Theme geolocte.ave Create your own dialog box for locating an address getuniq.ave Gets unique values for specified field gps2shp.ave Converts ASCII GPS output to shapefile grafclip.ave Extract and clip features by graphics gratview.ave Creates Graticules, Tics, and Labels for a View GRDMAKER.AVE Creates arbitrary grid(vector) shapefile grplegbt.ave Simplifies a legendframe and groups by theme gtable.ave Places a graphic of a table you specify into a layout hiselgra.ave Highlights selected graphics on a View document histogrm.ave Displays a histogram for selected field in table idlinked.ave Replaces Identify Tool with smarter version for links imgcat.ave Creates image catalog from image themes in view IMGEXT.AVE Redefines the extent of an image theme imscript.ave Imports text from file into new SEd document(s) JNLNKTBL.AVE Joins or Links two tables labwthin.ave Labels only features whose labels are smaller than their own extents lnkimgvw.ave Hotlinks an image to display in a View makergb.ave Create Colors from a RGB list matchcoo.ave Matches an address record to a coordinate mif2shp.ave Converts MapInfo Interchange Format (*.MIF) to ArcView shapefile format mkpensym.ave Makes pen symbols mrgthmcl.ave Merges Active Themes Click mrgthmup.ave Merges Active Themes Update multmtch.ave Geocode to several matchable themes simultaneously mvgra2pt.ave Moves and centers a graphic ndvipal.ave Sets the color map of an ImageTheme to a NDVI file nearest.ave Perform Spatial Nearest Neighbor Analysis npcl.ave Creates nested legend for piecharts with size field npclup.ave Update script for Layout.NestedPieChartL one2many.ave Sets up OneToMany relationships for tables linked to themes ordertoc.ave Sort order of TOC by type of theme pcarced.ave Opens Active Theme in pcARCEDIT pnt2poly.ave Convert a cluster of points to a polygon randsel.ave Selects a percentage of a theme's features randomly rasveclg.ave Changes legend from RasterFill to VectorFill replstr.ave Finds and replaces string in a file repscrpt.ave Replaces a script with script in active Sed retrndoc.ave Returns a document of a specific class revgeoc.ave Finds the address for the specified point location rgb2avp.ave Makes new color palette based on RGB values in file rgbdict.ave Makes an RGB NameDictionary rndscale.ave Rounds the interval of selected scale bars savscrpt.ave Saves all scripts to current working directory sedfndrp.ave Finds & replaces aString in a SEd document selbycir.ave Selects features in active theme using a circle showdd.ave Displays decimal degree values in the status bar of a projected view showsel.ave Shows the number of selected features in the status bar shp2gen.ave Exports active theme to ARC/INFO export format spider.ave Create spider diagrams spidx.ave Spatial Index Creator stanshpe.ave Standardizes address attributes in reference theme and save as shapefile subpath.ave Changes pathnames in project files symdump.ave Dumps symbols from palette to layout tblinput.ave Creates a new Table using MultiInput dialog box textmask.ave Creates text masks for a theme's labels thm2gphx.ave Shape to Graphic Converter thmhisto.ave Creates a histogram for the active theme thrshtoc.ave Tells you if theme isn't in display threshold tinfo.ave Reports on a table's structure TOCFONT.AVE Sets the TOC Font togctrls.ave Toggles the visibility of Controls wdb2shp.ave Converts World Data Base (WDB) line files to ArcView Shapefiles wrxyinfo.ave Creates a file with coordinate information from user xls2tbl.ave Creates a new table document from an Excel spreadsheet xyshift.ave Shifts XY coordinates for the features of a theme xyz2xy.ave Converts 3D shapefile to 2D shapefile sde3chgc.ave Changing a database theme’s connection sde3cntr.ave Totaling the records represented by a database table sde3link.ave Linking database tables and database themes sde3nsel.ave Switching a database theme's selected features sde3savp.ave Saving login information in the project file sde3splp.ave Splitting polygons in a database theme demfill.ave Creates a grid theme by filling all sinks in another grid theme dtedshad.ave Shade a DTED in decimal seconds dtedshft.ave Shift a DTED from decimal seconds to decimal degrees GrExtrct.ave Extract grids by a graphic Sample extensions buffer.avx Buffer clsbrwsr.avx Class Browser datum.avx Datum Converter extbuild.avx Extension Builder gtext.avx ArcView Save/Load Graphic Labels labtools.avx Label Tools last4.avx Remember Saved Projects MGEview.avx MGE Viewer (MicrostationCAD) multmlab.avx Multi-Theme Auto-Labeler namedext.avx Named Extents neatline.avx Neatline Tool overview.avx Overview View pntdisp.avx Point Dispersion portproj.avx Port Project Utility prjctr.avx Projector sedtools.avx Script Editor Utilities seesmple.avx Samples Browser shpdesc.avx Shapefile Description Dialog shpprop.avx Shape Properties Dialog tablex.avx Save field aliases with Table tocdefs.avx TOC Defaults Dialog vdocutil.avx Virtual Document Utilities ESRIR3 sde3aedt.avx SDE attribute editing sde3edit.avx Editing SDE features with the Check Out, Check In method sde3tls.avx Tools for loading, manipulating, and analyzing SDE data celltool.avx Cell Tool Sample Extension hydro.avx Hydrologic Modeling Sample Extension hydrov11.avx Hydrologic Modeling Sample Extension v11 vistools.avx Visibility Tools Sample Extension warp.avx Warp Environment Sample Extension Other utilities aisym.apr avreq30.txt Comprehensive listing of Avenue requests avreq31.txt Comprehensive listing of Avenue requests in ArcView 3.1 calibrat.apr Color Calibration Layout chngclas.txt Listing of changed Avenue classes for ArcView 3.0 chngclas31.txt Listing of changed Avenue classes for ArcView 3.1 chngreq31.txt Listing of changed Avenue requests for ArcView 3.1 chngreqs.txt Listing of changed Avenue requests for ArcView 3.0 ddewhite.txt Samples of DDE connectivity with MS Access exthlp.txt WordBasic Extension Help Macro scrpthlp.txt WordBasic Script Help Macro spellchk.txt Use Microsoft Word's spell checker in ArcView vbexampl.txt Visual Basic Example Verify ArcView Exists