Marching Ant symbology for line

Question

Looking at an ESRI online example to make a line symboloze like marching ants.... I cant seem to reproduce it....I use the below code and the application just spins and never loads... I know things work if I remove the RouteRender adn replace it with I get all the lines to draw.... I just cant seem to get the marching ants line to draw Any thoughts? THanks

JayKappy · Answer

Really appreciate the input....Man I was so close....

I tried to remove the SimpleRenderer a few times and just use the LineSymbol....everytime I did that all the crazy blue squiggly lines showed up telling my me syntax was shot.....
I just didnt add the x:Key="myLineSymbol"
As soon as I did that everything seems to be working....well havent tested yet but will soon...

Thanks again....much appreciated

Yep that was it.....I was confused when you said define a route symbol.....I thought I already had that....but in relaity I had it inside a renderer....simply remove the renderer and added the above line and bang...everything is working....

THANK YOU

DominiqueBroux · Answer

You have : 1) To define your line symbol in your resource 2) To define your BusRouteRenderer by using symbols defined in your resources 1) To use your BusRouteUniqueRenderer renderer in your featurelayer:

JayKappy · Answer

RouteRenderer is defined as a renderer and then is used as a Symbol:
  
Instead you should define a 'RouteSymbol' (with the line symbol inside your route renderer and then use this symbol in your 'BusRouteUniqueRenderer'

Alright that makes some sense...defining a renderer and using a symbol.....but was referecing this ESRI example
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/samples/start.htm#ClosestFacility

So you are saying I can leave the majority of the code I have in the renderer but classify it as a RouteSymbol instead?  Losing you on this one....

THanks for your help adn thoughts

I can get the marching ants line to work with the existing Renderer above if I do this

<esri:FeatureLayer ID="MG_BusRoutes" Visible="False" 
                                    Url="http://gis.logis.org/arcgis/rest/services/MG_Test/MapServer/9" 
                                    Renderer="{StaticResource RouteRenderer}"/>

But then I dont have the UniqueRenderer......So I do see where you are coming from...the unique rendere is referncing a Symbol not a renderer....
Just confused on how to do what you said...its not that clear to me....I see that in the case above that is working for me that I am simply applying the renderer..and not the uniquerenderer where my problem exists....Renderer adn symbol..

Not really sure what your comment means

Tried to look up defining a RouteSymbol but no luck...uggggggg...so close yet so far away....at least I have the marching ants working...but need different colors.....

Thanks