Latest Contributions by PaulHastings1

google's points are constructed latitude, longitude (y,x) vs ESRI's longitude, latitude (x,y).  kdiabate64 is correct, your coords are swapped. ... View more

no, as i said, we're using coldfusion & the iText version that comes w/it, server side. foxit that i used to measure the template bits is the free version. nothing special about it. ... View more

our suite of apps parses the layers in each map service the apps will use via rest calls (an admin app that sets which users/groups can use which map services/tools, etc). that includes the legends. that's all stored in a sql server table & this reporting tool simply pulls that data out of the table & adds it to the PDF. the map template is from arcMap. i get a PDF of that blank template & measure out the available space for the legend, etc. using a PDF tool (foxit for example)--mainly because the designers either don't know or won't say the space available for each piece of the template. those become constants. the legend,etc. tables are built in server memory & measured against the available space.if they fit, they go in, if not they get added to a supplemental page (next iteration will measure rows & fit as many as possible instead of this binary approach). if you can read coldfusion, i'll try to get a generic example together. ... View more

not directly but via a resource bundle: resourceManager.getString('ESRIMessages', 'mapAboutText') ... View more

maybe getDetails() per layer: https://developers.arcgis.com/flex/api-reference/com/esri/ags/layers/supportClasses/LayerDetails.html https://developers.arcgis.com/flex/api-reference/com/esri/ags/layers/supportClasses/LayerDetails.html#defaultVisibility ... View more

reverse geocoding: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/02r3/02r30000000n000000.htm ... View more

maybe custom/dynamic symbolization mouseover events renderers dynamic definition expressions ... View more

you "implied" as much 😉 yes flexJS is pre-alpha but by the same token HTML5's not a standard. and heaven help us if the browser vendors go nuts again and "standards" based development starts emphasizing the "plural" again. and sorry, no, HTML5 doesn't yet ensure 100% device-neutral apps, its all up to what that particular device's browser/version supports. not every bit of HTML5 is universally supported--though truthfully i'm not exactly sure what parts of the HTML5 not-yet-a-spec spec would be important to our little niche. maybe this is a place to start looking? http://html5test.com/index.html and since you seem to be talking timeliness, AIR comes close to that goal right now, at least its fairly painless to aim at different devices. ... View more

i'm not really sure JS/HTML5 has "won" anything yet. and pretty sure ms & IE hasn't been holding it back especially in the mobile space. the largest mobile apps are all pretty much native (facebook--recall that facebook made a big stink when it dumped HTML5 for native, twitter & hey even gmail). pretty sure few cared what ms & IE were doing. also, i think HTML5 is not even a small blip in the iOS citadel (though i'm less familiar w/apple than android, so somebody correct if i'm wrong). i guess we'll have to wait & see what JS API version 4 looks like. i really do wish ESRI would open source the flex bits especially in light of apache flex & flexJS. let the community keep pace w/server developments. ... View more

I say this and FB is about the only source that I know to create apps, this is inevitable. Apps created with FB run quite slow and memory intensive if you load any decent amount of dynamic data. Am not sure that JS will be better at this, am hopping it will be. FB? you mean flash builder? while it might have its flaws while developing it has little to do w/the resources an app uses when deployed. and if you don't like FB, there are a few other dev platforms, intelliJ for instance, that are quite nice. ... View more

perhaps we can complain that it should be open sourced instead of abandoned? ... View more

if ESRI is not going to continue development of the Flex API, would they open source the API? There has been a lot of activity with Apache Flex and they have been active in fixing bugs and adding new enhancements. Aaron yeah this is something we were discussing after reading the roadmap. considering that the JS API is basically open source, not seeing this as a big stretch for ESRI. as long as AGS REST bits were stable (and published) & nothing is done to specifically prevent flex clients from using it, i don't think there's a big technology barrier. finding folks to maintain it probably wouldn't be a big deal either but where would it go? apache? ... View more

Hello Paul. Would you mid sharing the source code in CF? Thanks. oops didn't see this until just now. sorry no, its the clients. but if you have specific questions i can probably whip up generic cf code. ... View more

we use coldfusion + iText for this server side. we build the attribute tables dynamically, measure their sizes once the tables are filled w/data, then merge them w/the PDF map document produced by the AGS print task, sticking what fits in the map's white space & dumping what doesn't onto supplemental pages. iText gives you an insane amount of control, coldfusion lets us glue this altogether more easily. i suppose anything server side that can talk to java or c# an be used w/iText (it has java & c# versions). we've tried purePDF (partial AS3 port of iText) & alivePDf client side but we found these too slow & lacking some functionality. ... View more