topic Re: Draw Widget tooltips in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions

Draw Widget tooltips

HugoDurana — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:19:32 GMT

Good afternoon all,

I am having a hard time figuring out how to change the tooltips of the draw operations.

Example:
I click on the Draw Circle. The tooltip that is next to the cursor says:
"Press down to start and let go to finish"

Where can i change this text?

TIA,
Hugo

Re: Draw Widget tooltips

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:14:01 GMT

Hugo,

You can't in the current API. This is already submitted as an enhancement request though.

Re: Draw Widget tooltips

HugoDurana — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:35:16 GMT

Hugo,

You can't in the current API. This is already submitted as an enhancement request though.

First of all, thanks for the update.

Second, where can i find the enhancement request list for Flex Viewer and it's API?

Re: Draw Widget tooltips

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:38:56 GMT

Hugo,

It is not publicly available. I only know about it because I am part of a private beta testing of the 2.3 API and Viewer.

Re: Draw Widget tooltips

IvanBespalov — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 03:56:35 GMT

You right Robert, but...

Listen your application (viewer or other) creation complete handler. Get resource bundle with name "ESRIMessages"

...
creationComplete="onCreationComplete()"
...
<fx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
...
/**
 * Listen creation complete handler
 */
protected function onCreationComplete():void
{
       var rb:IResourceBundle = resourceManager.getResourceBundle("en_US", "ESRIMessages") as IResourceBundle;
 rb.content["drawTooltipMappoint"] = "New message text 1";
 rb.content["drawTooltipPolygonContinueDrawing"] = "New message text 2";
 rb.content["drawTooltipPolylinePolygonStart"] = "New message text 3";
 rb.content["drawTooltipPolylinePolygonComplete"] = "New message text 4";      
}
]]>
</fx:Script>

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Re: Draw Widget tooltips

TammyBearly — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:04:50 GMT

Thank you Ivan. That works perfect!

Note, I had to add: import mx.resources.IResourceBundle;

Re: Draw Widget tooltips

GiosiaPoma — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:33:48 GMT

Hi,
you must create a ESRIMessages.properties and other properties file from Flex Locale. After that you must to compile a swf for your specific locale and at end you must to pass the path to the new Locale swf in html wrapper. It's a bit hard but I've made that for my specific country it_CH.

If need some infos... write here

Re: Draw Widget tooltips

IvanBespalov — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:50:58 GMT

Giosia,
you're right, but a little too late. Where are alot of ways to make it work.

1 - One of them: compile and compile project fo each locale. If the client change language, application loads new swf (if we are tolking about mapping application application loads >1 new swfs) - as a result new initialization of all components ... The cliant lost the result of his work.

2 - Other way to change locale on fly: if final application has >1 locale. For example: your client works with application, and the result of his work is some report, which contains search results, some diagrams, images, map in specific extent, some number of highlighted features ... The client wants to print a report for all possible languages�??�??, without losing search results without losing the map condition, without losing anything except change the language.

P.S. We choosed to: create 1 resource xml file for each language, create public singleton class witch holds information about current locale, create public singleton class witch can read xml resources + listen locale change + has public property for each string property. May be its not better way: but 1-we hold all messages/strings in 1 file, we can access it in anytime from any part of application, it works 🙂

Re: Draw Widget tooltips

BrunoPereira1 — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 03:56:38 GMT

You right Robert, but...

Listen your application (viewer or other) creation complete handler. Get resource bundle with name "ESRIMessages"

...
creationComplete="onCreationComplete()"
...
<fx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
...
/**
 * Listen creation complete handler
 */
protected function onCreationComplete():void
{
       var rb:IResourceBundle = resourceManager.getResourceBundle("en_US", "ESRIMessages") as IResourceBundle;
 rb.content["drawTooltipMappoint"] = "New message text 1";
 rb.content["drawTooltipPolygonContinueDrawing"] = "New message text 2";
 rb.content["drawTooltipPolylinePolygonStart"] = "New message text 3";
 rb.content["drawTooltipPolylinePolygonComplete"] = "New message text 4";      
}
]]>
</fx:Script>

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Thanks Ivan!! This helps me a lot!! lol
Bruno Faria

Re: Draw Widget tooltips

MLowry — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 03:56:41 GMT

You right Robert, but...

Listen your application (viewer or other) creation complete handler. Get resource bundle with name "ESRIMessages"

...
creationComplete="onCreationComplete()"
...
<fx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
...
/**
 * Listen creation complete handler
 */
protected function onCreationComplete():void
{
       var rb:IResourceBundle = resourceManager.getResourceBundle("en_US", "ESRIMessages") as IResourceBundle;
 rb.content["drawTooltipMappoint"] = "New message text 1";
 rb.content["drawTooltipPolygonContinueDrawing"] = "New message text 2";
 rb.content["drawTooltipPolylinePolygonStart"] = "New message text 3";
 rb.content["drawTooltipPolylinePolygonComplete"] = "New message text 4";      
}
]]>
</fx:Script>

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Thanks very much for this. Using it now in 2.5, works just fine.

Re: Draw Widget tooltips

IvanBespalov — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:43:13 GMT

The last ESRI release version of API for FLEX (2.5) has help document with name Localization. This document provide link to ESRIMessages.properties file and description: how to use it.

Today we do not need to hack ESRI code (in old versions "ESRIMessages.properties" were hidden 😞 ).

...
var rb:IResourceBundle = resourceManager.getResourceBundle("en_US", "ESRIMessages") as IResourceBundle;
...

1 - Create folder in you project solution (if not exists): "locale" folder. In "locale" create folder "myLanguage". Put "ESRIMessages.properties" in.
2 - Translate strings.
3 - Go to Project > Flex Compiler.
4 - Set the Additional compiler arguments:

-locale=myLanguage  -source-path=locale/{locale}

But, yes. Hacking method still works. :cool: