IGxObject.Category Values

Question

Does anyone know if there is a list of possible values for the IGxObject.Category property?

Cheers

NeilClemmons_GISinc · Answer

Thomas,

What's the better way of catching the objects that you've found? I'm coding in C# so can't use GetType as it just returns System.__ComObject (other casts I've tried return null for some reason. I need to get a reference to the IWorkspace from the currently selected IGXObject.

cheers,

Brian O'Hare

Brian, try the following code.  You'll have to translate to C#.If TypeOf gxObject Is IGxDataset Then
  Dim gxDataset As IGxDataset = DirectCast(gxObject, IGxDataset)
  Dim dataset As IDataset = gxDataset.Dataset
  Dim workspace As IWorkspace = dataset.Workspace
End If

BrianO_Hare · Answer

Thomas,

What's the better way of catching the objects that you've found? I'm coding in C# so can't use GetType as it just returns System.__ComObject (other casts I've tried return null for some reason. I need to get a reference to the IWorkspace from the currently selected IGXObject.

cheers,

Brian O'Hare

ThomasPolden · Answer

I have a application that searches through our filesystem and reports back on spatial data. I was using IGxObject.Category to catch the spatial data. But I noticed that it was not reporting back on some raster files. I eventually figured out I was only catching "File Geodatabase Raster Dataset" files when some of them were actually coming through IGxObject.Category as "fgdb Raster" or something similar. I just wanted a list of standard ESRI categories to make sure I was not missing anything else. But I have figured out a better way of catching everything now.

Still, it would be usefully to have such a list. One has to exist somewhere.