topic Re: Measurement Widget Code in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Measurement Widget Code

PaulHuppé — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:50:48 GMT

Hi,

We need to make a lot of modifications to the widget to suit our needs, and I was wondering if instead of starting from scratch we get the code for the widget and modify it.

Paul

Re: Measurement Widget Code

MichaelVolz — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:51:15 GMT

Where would someone find the widget that you want to modify?

Re: Measurement Widget Code

PaulHuppé — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:02:38 GMT

This widget is a standard ESRI dijit widget.

Re: Measurement Widget Code

TimWitt — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:16:42 GMT

Maybe you could find the code here? https://github.com/Esri

Re: Measurement Widget Code

PaulHuppé — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:23:49 GMT

Hi Tim,

Lots of stuff there, but they are all addons or custom things. No custom measurement tool.

Paul

Re: Measurement Widget Code

MichaelVolz — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:33:27 GMT

Paul:

I am a beginner with the Javascript API, so I have no idea where to find a standard ESRI dijit widget. Can you help me with that?

Re: Measurement Widget Code

PaulHuppé — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:38:21 GMT

You can find all the available widgets in the API documentation at https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/jsapi/

Look under "esri" and "dijit" on that page for all widgets.

Re: Measurement Widget Code

JeffPace — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:17:55 GMT

if you are looking for the source, non-obfuscated code, its not available. You have to work with the api provided, extend it, or write your own

Re: Measurement Widget Code

BenFousek — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:45:54 GMT

Starting from scratch isn't that bad. The thing with the esri widget, it has to take into effect every possible use and and isn't very customizable. With your own widget you have control over the look, feel and functionality. My widget is only a couple hundred lines long + a simple template. In the time spent trying to make the esri widget do what you want you could have your own. It's super easy if you use web mercator or lat/lng as you can use esri/geometry/geodesicUtils to compute accurate results in any unit w/o using a geom service.

Re: Measurement Widget Code

PaulHuppé — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:04:34 GMT

Ok, thanks everyone. Looks like we will write our own widget.
Paul