<div dir="ltr">Oh, I missed the utils being passed in, that's roughly the same thing. If you use just "utils" you would want to remove it from the parameter list of the call.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:02 AM Djordje Spasic <<a href="mailto:issworld2000@yahoo.com">issworld2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class="gmail_msg">Thank you for the reply Alex,<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">I apologize for misunderstanding you.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">If I try to call the OGR2OGR method like that:</div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3752" class="gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3751" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3738" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3739" class="gmail_msg">convertToShapefiles_Result = <b id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3740" class="gmail_msg"><u id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3741" class="gmail_msg"><font id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3742" color="#ff0000" class="gmail_msg">utils</font></u></b>.</span><b style="font-size:13px" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3743" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:midnightblue" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3744" class="gmail_msg">OGR2OGR</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3745" class="gmail_msg">(utils, osm_filePath, shps_filePath, bstrOptions,<span id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3746" class="gmail_msg"> </span></span><b style="font-size:13px" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3747" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:blue" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3748" class="gmail_msg">None</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3749" class="gmail_msg">)</span>  <br id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3750" class="gmail_msg"></span></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class="gmail_msg">Then I get an error message:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3458" class="gmail_msg"><div id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3386" dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><font id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3715" color="#808080" class="gmail_msg">Could not convert argument 0 for call to OGR2OGR</font><br class="gmail_msg"></div></blockquote><div id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3816" class="gmail_msg">I posted a question about this on this very mailing list earlier this year. Stéphane Lozier suggested that I should instead use:</div></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class="gmail_msg"><blockquote id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3823" class="gmail_msg"><div id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3822" dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3895" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3896" class="gmail_msg">convertToShapefiles_Result </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3851" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3852" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3897" class="gmail_msg">= MapWinGIS.UtilsClass</span>.</span><b style="font-size:13px" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3856" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:midnightblue" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3857" class="gmail_msg">OGR2OGR</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3858" class="gmail_msg">(<font color="#cd232c" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">utils</b></font>, osm_filePath, shps_filePath, bstrOptions,<span id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3859" class="gmail_msg"> </span></span><b style="font-size:13px" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3860" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:blue" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3861" class="gmail_msg">None</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3862" class="gmail_msg">)</span>  </span></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class="gmail_msg">And it worked perfectly. Since then, I am calling all MapWinGIS methods which require opening of some sort of a file like this. And they work with no problem.<br class="gmail_msg"><div id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3951" class="gmail_msg">Otherwise I always get an error message:</div><blockquote id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3959" class="gmail_msg"><font id="m_-7519832249636555867yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478782040578_3973" color="#808080" class="gmail_msg">Could not convert argument 0 for call to "name of the method"<br class="gmail_msg"></font></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div>