Latest Contributions by AlexandraFairbarns

I'm hoping someone may be able to help. ESRI explains that add-ins created for 10.0 are forward compatible and thus work in 10.1 and 10.2, without additional compilation. However, none of my users can install my 10.0 add-ins on 10.1/10.2 as it raises a ???No GUI components found. Not supported for this version???. I thought it was my code, but I created a blank add-in with a button and no additional code/references and the same issue occurs. Both computers are running .net framework 3.5. I even tried another running 10.1 and also unistalled/reinstalled the sdk & visual studio. I have removed the second part of the issue with adding the ???targets??? in the Config.esriaddinx to include 10.1 and 10.2 ??? but should this be necessary? The first part of the problem ???no gui components??? is still eluding me! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance ... View more

Hello everyone, I have a request from a client to view imagery inside ArcMap from a wms feed. We can get the imagery in using the wms (the wms is from an external company - so unfortunately cannot play around with it), but it is very slow making it unusable when you are panning/zooming. Is there a way to intercept the wms using arcobjects and store the received image locally so it is not so disruptive? WMS version is 1.3.0 & am using VB.NET Arc 10.0 Thank you in advance Alex ... View more

VB.NET & ArcMAP Probably a rather simple question, but how do you get the background colour of the active view (in map view not layout). I.e. access the "date frame properties", "frame", "background colour". Am exporting the active view from arcmap into a png, but need to know the background colour to state what colour is transparent in the png. For the life of me i cannot work it out. Any help is much appreciated Thank You Alex ... View more

Hello All, I realise that this subject has come up on this forum more than once, but it still seems to never have been answered. This theory worked in previous version, but not now since the change hyperlink scripting: 1. Feature field contain URL to an geo raster(.tiff) geotiff. 2. On hyperlink click find path of raster from field sx8 for clicked feature. 3. Open raster to arcmap. 4. Display raster in the active view in the location determined by the geotiff This is almost like a raster catalog in which we show the bounding boxes of each image before click, and on click the hyperlink is found and it displays the actual image on top of the bounding box. I noticed that the only way to do this would be to use what the esri help says: <esri help > You can create a dispatch object within your script code to call functions from a custom library.  This allows you to access ArcObjects through your hyperlink script via the dispatch object.  In addition you can pass IFeature and/or IFeatureLayer down to the dispatch object so that you launch the hyperlink for the appropriate feature.  An example of a hyperlink script that creates a dispatch object: Function OpenLink ( {IFEATURE}, {IFEATURELAYER} )   Dim hlauncher   Set hlauncher = CreateObject("Hyperlink_Lib.Launcher")   hlauncher.Launch {IFEATURE}, {IFEATURELAYER} End Function This example will call the function Launch from a Hyperlink_Lib library that you have created. <esri help > Forgive me for being dense but this is not explained very well as to how to actually do it - please can someone jargon bust this for me. I am using visual studio .net - so how to link the two is what im looking for. Thankyou in advance Alex ... View more

Good afternoon/morning to all, I want to be able to close my dockable window (opened via a toolbar button) every time the application (not document) is closed. At the moment, if the dockable window is open when arcmap is closed , when arcmap is re-opened the dockable window loads itself again. This is rather irritating for my client. I was wishing to do this through my event listening extension i have created in my add-in project, which is persistent. I have been able to handle an ondocumentclose() and onshutdown() event in this, however only the onshutdown() will fire when the application is closed (i would have thought that since its closing the document before closing the application it would do the ondocumentclose() event first?). Alas i cannot figure out how to access the document before the application is closed. I cant imagine that no-one else has not wanted to do this, so it would be great if someone had the answer! Thank You Alex ... View more

Hi to all! I am currently building an add-in for ArcGIS desktop. The add is a dockable window with tool functions. Part of the interface has a sections similar to the TOC in which groups of specific layers (included with the add-in) may be turned on and off. This event would need to turn off/on the layers simultaneously so that when the group is turned off in the dockable window, so it is in the TOC and vice verse. I have it working as in dockable window syncing to TOC, but how do i listen for events from the TOC to update the dockable window. I have been racking my brain for several days now, and not getting anywhere. I have found the snippet for editor events, and the visual studio project for new/open documents and have looked at the help support on event listening.....but am still very confused. Essentially my questions are: where do i put the code for event listening i.e. top of my dockable window code? and how do i reference the TOC so i get events back? and will it slow the program down a lot to do this. Would be so grateful is someone could give me an inclination or code for what to do... Thank You so much Alex ... View more