topic Re: Draw Toolbar in IE 10 in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Draw Toolbar in IE 10

JamieSimko — Wed, 28 May 2014 21:19:38 GMT

When I activate the draw tool in IE9, firefox, or chrome everything works fine and I get the tooltip message showing up ( e.g. "click to add a point"). In IE 10 that is not the case; drawing still works but the tooltips are missing.

Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this? My current plan is to just manually show my own tooltip through other means but I would rather not have to do all that to fix a bug specific to 1 version of one browser.

Sorry if this is a re-post. I know I've seen this issue mentioned online before but I'm having a hard time finding it again.

Thanks,
- Jamie

Re: Draw Toolbar in IE 10

ManishkumarPatel — Thu, 29 May 2014 01:46:09 GMT

Hi Jamie,

I can confirm that I also experienced this issue when I tried using the drawing tools in IE 10. Also I am unable to see the rectangle when using the zoom in from navigation tools however the functionality still works.

Possible workarounds:
1. You could probably use the X-UA-Compatible meta tag to force IE 10 to use IE 9 mode.
2. Set the Compatibility View settings for IE to display all sites in Compatibility mode.
3. You can also try adding the below line of code if it works for you:

toolbar._options.showTooltips = true;

Wonder why ESRI is still not got some solid fix for this issue yet or may be I might have missed something.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Manish

Re: Draw Toolbar in IE 10

JamieSimko — Thu, 29 May 2014 13:56:04 GMT

Hey Manish,

The 3rd option you provided worked great. I'm not sure what is up with the API in IE 10 but I stopped the code before setting the showTooltips = true & in IE it was actually false (chrome and I'm assuming others have it true). One caveat to doing this is that it doesn't work if you try to pass in {showTooltips: true} as the options. It also didn't work if I tried to set it immediately after calling the constructor. I ended up doing it later on in the process; immediately before calling activate.

Thanks for the suggestions!
- Jamie

Re: Draw Toolbar in IE 10

ManishkumarPatel — Fri, 30 May 2014 08:44:38 GMT

Glad to help Jamie!!! Thanks