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Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

RobertScheitlin__GISP

All,

As promised I will continue to convert (most of) my old 1.x widgets to Flex Viewer 2.1.

Here is the next one my enhanced draw widget.

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=91a0014160fc4a9caadc2c7fd7089c1b

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RobertScheitlin__GISP

Ha T,

No, that was never added. As it stands right now I don't have time to do enhancements on this widget either.

haThach

Hi Everyone,

Do you know if the TextSymbol properties suggested by Erwan got added in version 2.3.1? Basically, I would like to change the measurements label property, mainly backgroundcolor to white.

Ha T.

Thanks Robert !

A suggestion : Mesurements labels are not always very legible, i think it would be useful if you could add controls for the TextSymbol properties : border, borderColor, background and backgoundColor.

Erwan

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Mattias,

Thanks for the info. The next version will have the localization back in the code. I remember that I removed it so that people could use the widget with older versions of the viewer, but now it is time for everyone to move ahead as Flex Viewer 2.4 is coming this month. Like I said I will put in an enhancement request for the edit tool to support point rotation and hopefully the API will include that soon.

mattias_j

Robert,
I just download tested the 2.3.2 version. I like the text rotation ability. Even though interactive rotation would be even better, but I understand there's limits in the API.
However I don't know if it's only for me but the context menu item for removing objects is missing in this version, it was there in 2.3.1. I haven't done any customization to the widget yet, only localization in the ViewerStrings.properties...
Speaking of localization, your drawwidget generally takes advantage of this just as the standard one which is great, but I noticed that in your widget the styles in the dropdown lists don't, but they do in the standard drawwidget. Is there a reason for this? or just something you've missed? It's easy for me to fix, just wanted to tell you.

Edit: My mistake, now the context menu item for removing objects is back again, don't know why it wasn't there... however the localization thing is something you could inlcude in the next version I just copied the code from the style dropdown lists from the standard drawWidget and that works good.

/Mattias

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Halil,

I did not upload the new widget to my live preview site yet I only updated the download. The text and point marker can have their angle/rotation set in the widget dialog, but as there is no point rotation support for the editTool that means that there is no interactive rotation like the polygon and line have. Maybe interactive point rotation will be included in the 2.4.1 API. It is to late for it to be added to the 2.4 API.

HalilSiddique

Robert,

Thanks for adding that in, but im being a bit thick here...... I can move the text but not rotate it (im on http://gis.calhouncounty.org/FlexViewer2.3.1/index.html?config=config-eDraw.xml) what do I have to do to rotate?

Cheers.

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Halil,

That has been added in version 2.3.2

HalilSiddique

Hi Robert,

I've downloaded your widget and does exactly what I need it to do, but some of the users are asking whether its possible to rotate text, is this possible?

Cheers

Halil

PaulTHEDUDELang

I would like to calculate and label the the polyline measurements by indivual segments.
Has anyone attempted this yet?

NathanEnge

Nathan,

A rotated extent is no longer an extent it is a polygon...

Running length is very dependent on the particular Spatial Reference you are using so this has not been added natively to the draw widget. Some people have worked out the math for their particular WKID and posted that code. I don't remember the post link though.

That make sense to me. thanks
I've been searching for the code for the second running length, but have not found. will try the old forum.
Do you know if possible to implement direction/bearing and length when drawing line or poly feature? like a context menu item?

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Nathan,

A rotated extent is no longer an extent it is a polygon...

Running length is very dependent on the particular Spatial Reference you are using so this has not been added natively to the draw widget. Some people have worked out the math for their particular WKID and posted that code. I don't remember the post link though.

NathanEnge

Robert, the ESRI rotation works for all the shapes, except for a drawn rectangle. Do you know why this is?
Also, is there the ability get the running total of a length of a segment as you add vertices to a shape?

AlexJones

I was able to write a simple python script to do this. I needed it quickly so I hard coded a bunch on "known" values. I am going to try and take some time this week to clean it up and post it. There is a nice built in json module in python and you can then use json.loads()

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Alex,

Nope, it was a lot more complicated than I imagined and not enough free time...

AlexJones

Cattyann,

Well... I got to say I was not expecting this one. Currently there is no way for you to do this, but if you send me the file I will see what I can do. Depending on how difficult it is I may add a shapefile export or just develop an ArcMap Addon for this.

Robert,

Did you ever make anything for this? An add on or export option? Maybe there is another solution for reading these in ArcMap. Any info would be appreciated .

Thank you,
Alex

KarlWilson

Robert,

Excellent widget as always.

Would it be possible to set the numerical precision of each point unit type individually, rather than applying one precision to all point unit types?

For example I may want my WGS84 Decimal Degrees displayed to 6 d.p. and my WGS84 UTM31N eastings/northings displayed to 0 d.p. (i.e nearest metre).

Also, would it be possible to remove the commas denoting a 1000 units - it looks a bit untidy.

I'm sure your list of requests grows longer by the day, thanks for all your hard work.

Karl

JeffLegato

That did it Robert!
😄
Thank you so much. Awesome widget!

Jeff

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Jeff,

Try downloading again. The zip file should be named eDraw2.2.3f.zip. Hopefully that will fix it.

JeffLegato

Jeff,

Version 2.2.3 now has that configurable in the xml file.

Wow you are fast! Myself and my users very much appreciate the enhancement!

I found this line added to the compiled_FV2.1 xml file:

<numericlabelprecision>6</numericlabelprecision>

I added that line to the compiled FV2.2 xml file as below but when I go and attempt to implement it I am not seeing any change in the number of decimal places

I hope ESRI rewards you for all your help in making their flexviewer so much better!

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<configuration>
    <geometryservice>http://sampleserver3.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Geometry/GeometryServer</geometryservice&gt;
    <spatialref>102003</spatialref>
    <distanceunits>
        <distanceunit abbr="ft" conversion="3.2808">Feet</distanceunit>
        <distanceunit abbr="m" conversion="1">Meters</distanceunit>
        <distanceunit abbr="km" conversion=".001">Kilometers</distanceunit>
        <distanceunit abbr="mi" conversion="0.000621">Miles</distanceunit>
    </distanceunits>
    <areaunits>
        <areaunit abbr="ac" conversion="0.00024710538147">Acres</areaunit>
 <areaunit abbr="sq m" conversion="1">Square Meters</areaunit>
        <areaunit abbr="sq km" conversion="0.000001">Square Kilometers</areaunit>
        <areaunit abbr="sq ft" conversion="10.763910417">Square Feet</areaunit>
        <areaunit abbr="sq mi" conversion="0.0000003861021">Square Miles</areaunit>
        <areaunit abbr="ha" conversion="0.0001">Hectares</areaunit>
    </areaunits>
    <pointunits>
 <pointunit abbr="wgs84dd" wkid="4326">Decimal Degrees (WGS84)</pointunit>
 <pointunit abbr="spal" wkid="102629">NAD83 AL East(SP Feet)</pointunit>
 <pointunit abbr="wgs84dms" wkid="4326">DMS (WGS84)</pointunit>
 <pointunit abbr="utm19n" wkid="2960">NAD 1983 UTM 19N</pointunit>
    </pointunits>
  <numericlabelprecision>6</numericlabelprecision>
</configuration>

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Jeff,

Version 2.2.3 now has that configurable in the xml file.

JeffLegato

Adam,

1. Yes it is that simple
2. Your way is fine but you could of just added abbr="wgs84dms" to what ever WKID that is returning decimal degrees
3. Is only doable right now in the code.
<mx:NumberFormatter id="numFormatter"
       precision="2"
       useThousandsSeparator="true"/>

I realize this is an imposition and very much appreciate all the work you do producing these widgets so I would completely understand if you don't have time but is there any way you could recompile this widget with a default value of 6 decimal places for the decimal degrees label on points? Our County can't afford Adobe Flex at the moment.

Thanks,

Jeff Legato

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Mattias,

In all my research, that is just the way it is.

mattias_j

I have a question about the saving part. When the dialog for saving the file opens the user can either just accept to default file name with the extension .txt and everything is fine. But I'm guess many users want to change the name and probably won't add the extension because they're expecting the correct extension to be added anyway. But it doesn't cause you're not saving the file as a specific file type, and then you wont be able to open it when the file filter does exists in the opening dialog.

I googled this and I didn't find anything official from Adobe, but in some forums people are saying that it is impossible to specify file type when saving because it could be a security risk (to save exe-files for example).

Is there anyone who has looked into to this and found some solution or do I just have to accept that this is how it works??

It's exactly the same thing in the PDFWidget when saving the pdf file. It annoys me.

AdamRepsher

Just confirming.

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Adam,

Yep the default value is suppose to be overwritten by the config file. Are you not experiencing this behavior or are you just confirming?

AdamRepsher

Thank you much!

I was looking for something, anything, to format the DD decimal places....

Funny -- I found something else to ask. Right above the precision format for the numberformatter -- the geometry service -- is this URL overridden by the one we place in the xml?

--Adam

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Adam,

1. Yes it is that simple
2. Your way is fine but you could of just added abbr="wgs84dms" to what ever WKID that is returning decimal degrees
3. Is only doable right now in the code.

<mx:NumberFormatter id="numFormatter"
       precision="2"
       useThousandsSeparator="true"/>

AdamRepsher

Robert -- Great improvements to an already wonderful widget.

I wanted to make a few modifications and have spent the past 6 hours messing with it, getting about a 33% success rate. Being a complete noob to Flash or any other programming, I have been attempting many things on my own in order to learn. Various co-workers have been stopping by and telling me to give up!!! So here I am....

First, I am attempting to add NAD38 CONUS to the list of point units. I simply added
<pointunit abbr="nad83dd" wkid="104223">Decimal Degrees (NAD83 CONUS)</pointunit>
for decimal degrees, and it... works. Should this work or am I missing a huge step?

If the above is wrong, this next one is probably way off...

Second, I'd like to add the DMS version of the above. In looking at your code modifications in the xml and mxml, I am making a rather large assumption. Since I cannot find reference to any of your default "abbr" values other than "wgs84dms" in the mxml, that is the only value that is used. It also appears that the //Compute degrees, minutes and seconds: code is just a general conversion, not tied to any specific GCS or Projection. I just changed the abbr value to "alldms" and made the same change to my xml for both the wgs84dms and my new nad83dms abbr values. Is this completely wrong?

Last -- is there ANY way to add decimal places to the Decimal Degrees text (show measurements)?

Thanks much!!
--Adam

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Marshall,

Thanks for reporting these bugs. They have been fixed in Version 2.2.2.

MarshallPlants

Robert,

Good work on adding the ability to label points using different projections. All of my data is State Plane but most of my users don't understand that and they want Lat-Lon, so now they have it.

I have two issues.

One - after measurements are turned on, any point added still has measurements even after they have been turned off again. This is only a minor inconvenience, but a bug nevertheless.

Two - the DMS label uses '' for minutes and ' for seconds and I always use the reverse of that, ie ' for minutes and '' for seconds. I changed this in my mxml file and you might have had a reason for doing it that way, it just seemed backward to me.

Enough complaining. I must repeat, GREAT WORK!!!

Marshall

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