cannot find OnClick() method in Tool

MariaMaldini

I am developing a Tool using Add-Ins in order to get the coordinate where user clicks on map ( through OnMouseDown event), but I want to do some operations before getting coordinates in another method. I try to explain my problem with a simple example. for example, I want to see a message box that will be called from a method ( msg method) and then user click on map and get coordinates using OnMouseDown event. my problem is that the first time that i click on tool's icon i see a message box (" hello") but the second time that i click on tool's icon, it does not show message box and tool just call OnMouseDown event.

( as i told, i do not want to have message box in  OnMouseDown event)

please help, thanks in advance

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.IO;

using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace msg

{

    public class msg : ESRI.ArcGIS.Desktop.AddIns.Tool

    {

        public msg()

        {

            MessageBox.Show("hello");

        }

        protected override void OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs arg)

        {

            //get map coordinate

        } 

        protected override void OnUpdate()

        {

            Enabled = ArcMap.Application != null;

        }

    }

}

MahtabAlam1

OnActivate will be called when you activate the tool. But if you already have your tool active it won't do anything. So you need to set current tool as null once you are done with your logic. Something like this:

protected override void OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs arg)
{
  try
  {
       //get map coordinate
  }
  catch(ex)
  {
       //handle exception
  }
  finally
  {
       ArcMap.Application.CurrentTool = null;
  }
}

Hope that it gives you what you want.