'CONVERTS A POINT SHAPEFILE TO A POLYLINE SHAPEFILE
'REQUIRES THE POINTS TO BE ORDERED IN THE WAY THE ROUTE HAS BEEN TRAVERSED

'LOADING SCRIPTS
' 1. Double-click on an empty area on the bar containing all buttons, The "Customize" dialog appears
' 2. In the "Type" pull-down, select "View"
' 3. In the "Category" pull-down, select "Buttons", The display right below the pull down changes to show an array of buttons
' 4. Slide the scrollbar (below the button display) to the right and select the last button by clicking on it, Now click on "New"
' 5. A new blank button appears. Double-click on the blank area to the right of the entry "Click" (just below the button display)
' 6. The "Script Manager" Dialog appears, Click on "New", Enter any name in the input box that appears (prefix it with "Z_" so that it goes in the last)
' 7. A new blank script document (With the name just specified) appears. Delete whatever is on it...
' 8. Either copy-paste this ENTIRE script on the document, or, click on the button with the open-folder icon (tooltip reads "Load text file") and navigate to this file
' 9. Either done, click on the button with the tick-mark icon ("compile"). If spatial analyst is not loaded, there will be some error message, Load it
' 10. After the script is compiled (the tick-mark buton should be grayed out), close the script window and return to the view
' 11. Click on the new button to run the script

theView = av.GetActiveDoc
PtList={}
TheFtab1=TheView.GetActiveThemes.Get(0).GetFtab
for each f in TheFtab1
  ThePt=TheFtab1.ReturnValue(TheFtab1.FindField("Shape"),f)
  PtList.Add(ThePt)
end
ThePLine=PolyLine.Make({PtList})
NewFtab=Ftab.MakeNew("FileName.shp".AsFileName,PolyLine)
NewFtab.SetEditable(TRUE)
NewField=Field.Make("ID",#FIELD_CHAR,2,0)
NewFtab.AddFields({NewField})
if (NewFTab.CanAddRecord) then
    NewRec=NewFtab.AddRecord
    NewFtab.SetValue(NewFtab.FindField("Shape"),NewRec,ThePline)
    NewFtab.SetValue(NewField,NewRec,1)
    NewTheme=FTheme.Make(NewFtab)
    TheView.AddTheme(NewTheme)
else msgbox.error("Cannot add records","")
end