topic Re: Blinking symbol in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Blinking symbol

demdeberanz — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:24:50 GMT

Hi everybody, Is there the possibility to create a blinking symbol?and how?

Thank you for your reply.

Re: Blinking symbol

derekswingley1 — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:34:17 GMT

Check out the geolocation sample for an example of how to do this with CSS3: http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/help/jssamples/exp_geolocate.html

Re: Blinking symbol

demdeberanz — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:02:29 GMT

Check out the geolocation sample for an example of how to do this with CSS3: http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/help/jssamples/exp_geolocate.html

Thank you my friend!;-)

Re: Blinking symbol

JeffPace — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:47:24 GMT

Just a side note. We had a blinking location on our maps. The overwhelming comment was

"How do i turn the &()&*(^_(^ heartbeat off"

People, overwhelmingly , HATED it.

Re: Blinking symbol

derekswingley1 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:28:30 GMT

Just a side note. We had a blinking location on our maps. The overwhelming comment was

"How do i turn the &()&*(^_(^ heartbeat off"

People, overwhelmingly , HATED it.

I'm happy to hear this. Animation for animation's sake usually isn't a good idea. Unless you have customers who absolutely demand it, you probably shouldn't do animated/pulsing map symbols.

Re: Blinking symbol

JeffPace — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:46:50 GMT

I'm happy to hear this. Animation for animation's sake usually isn't a good idea. Unless you have customers who absolutely demand it, you probably shouldn't do animated/pulsing map symbols.

This ^^^^^

We still use a pulsing symbol, but on the polygon not the centroid. Plus it is disable-able with a cookie that remembers the preference. We needed to keep it for situations where there is a large selection (say 10 polygons) but the info popup only relates to one of them.

Re: Blinking symbol

demdeberanz — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:38:22 GMT

Hi everybody,
and if I would like to blink only some kind of symbols? for example the SimpleMarkSymbol must blink and a CartographicLineSymbol not.

Thank you again.

Re: Blinking symbol

MarkHoover — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:56:10 GMT

Have you considered putting a graphic on the map for a brief moment?