Capturing the onClick event of a map when a graphics layer is present

jamesmuir — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:24:05 GMT

I have an identify tool that listens for the onClick event of the map like so

handle = dojo.connect(mapController.map, 'onClick', function (evt) {...}

When i run a query against the map i am highlighting the returned features by adding the geometries as graphics to a map like so

var layerId = "query-graphics-layer"           var queryGraphicsLayer = new esri.layers.GraphicsLayer({id: layerId});            map.addLayer(queryGraphicsLayer);            //Add the graphics to the query-graphics-layer           $.each(queryFeatureSet.features, function( index, feature) {             queryGraphicsLayer.add(new esri.Graphic(feature.geometry, feature.symbol));           });

The problem is that when i go to click on the feature to get the identify, the onClick event of the map does not fire. I tried to use

queryGraphicsLayer.disableMouseEvents();

but that didn't work. It appears that the graphics in the graphics layer is taking the click event and that it is not getting propagated to the map which seems to be by design

http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/javascript/arcgis/help/jshelp_start.htm#jshelp/inside_events.htm

However, i would like to know if there is some way to allow that event to propagate up to the map or possibly a way to propagate it myself?

Re: Capturing the onClick event of a map when a graphics layer is present

JohnathanBarclay — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:51:43 GMT

I'm not sure how you are running your query, but the best way would probably be to use FeatureLayer with a selection symbol set.

You can then use the selectFeatures method to highlight features using a query.

Re: Capturing the onClick event of a map when a graphics layer is present

jamesmuir — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:32:31 GMT

It turns out that my implementation was using a feature set which was causing the problem. Once i changed it to a graphics layer the map captured the event. Thank you for your reply.

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