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Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

ArjunDongre — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:39:24 GMT

The measurement tool is displaying two mouse pointers and two pins when using the "location" tool. Anyone else having this problem?

Thanks.

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:48:38 GMT

Arjun,

Nope I have not seen this behavior. Can you have your code for review?

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

ArjunDongre — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:59:50 GMT

Hi Robert,

Not doing anything fancy to the widget, except calling it in the JS file:

var measurement = new Measure({

map: map,

style:"margin-top:25px;height:200px",

id:"measurement",

}, 'measurement').startup();

and <div id='measurement'></div> in html.

The other erratic behaviour was that I had to force a height on the tool, otherwise it was making it incredibly tall, pushing the divs below way down having to scroll down to see them.

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:13:52 GMT

Arjun,

You have:

var measurement = new Measure({

What is the require that you are using for this? Normally you would use

esri/dijit/Measurement

and a var of

Measurement

Did you just choose to use Measure as your var?

What happens when you use the esri sample for the Measurement widget?

Measurement Widget | ArcGIS API for JavaScript

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:15:44 GMT

Arjun,

Seeing your complete code would help.

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

ArjunDongre — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:18:13 GMT

That was just what I called it in my function list. You can give a class you have registered in the array any name you like.

I'm 99% sure my code is right, its the "behind-the-scenes" functionality on ESRI's end, from what I can tell. My code would be way to long to share. That snippet is really the important part.

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:25:26 GMT

Arjun,

Yes I know you can give the var any name you like, I was just checking. The fact that you are having this issue in your code and using the esri sample I referenced and all of the apps I have produced that do not have this issue leads me to believe that you have something in your code that is causing this.

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

ArjunDongre — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:30:05 GMT

Hi Robert,

I don't really have any other code that could be interfering - except for the style within the widget. Since the widget creates the x/y point table, I don't really have much control over it. Thank you for your help!

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:39:09 GMT

Arjun,

Can you try and produce a quick sample app that just has the Measurement dijit and add in your css rules and see if it produces that same result. Like I mentioned I can produce apps with the measurement dijit and never have this issue.

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

ArjunDongre — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:41:02 GMT

Good idea, Ill try that.

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

JoelBennett — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:44:42 GMT

Remove the call to the startup function.

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

ArjunDongre — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:47:51 GMT

That did it. Thanks! So simple. Im so used to making the startup call in dojo.

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:49:07 GMT

Joel,

Why?....

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

ArjunDongre — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:53:15 GMT

Startup() overrides the default override within the class, as you probably already know. ESRI may not have accounted for this call in the results table, and it generates two rows for each.

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

JoelBennett — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:54:42 GMT

I can't say with absolute certainty, but I know it worked for me (and now for Arjun as well). I think this behavior started in 3.10. I'm supposing it's called automatically and doesn't need to be explicitly called, but I don't see evidence of that in the Measurement module itself...

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:57:12 GMT

Arjun,

I startup the dijit in all my apps and have never seen the issue. The esri samples all call startup on the Measurement dijit and do not display the issue.

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

ArjunDongre — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:59:24 GMT

Weird. Yeah - I have no clue. Thanks for the help Robert!

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:04:08 GMT

Are you guys using parse on load or some other dojo parse directive?

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

ArjunDongre — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:05:51 GMT

I use parser.parse()…

Re: Measurement widget location tool not displaying correctly.

JoelBennett — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:14:37 GMT

I'm not...window.dojoConfig.parseOnLoad is explicitly set to false in my application.

My Measurement widget gets created programmatically and then added to the DOM tree as a child of another dijit (a subclass of dijit/Dialog that's been hacked to be modeless). Perhaps adding it as a child of another pre-existing dijit already in the tree makes the difference...