topic WebGL Invalid Resource Error in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

WebGL Invalid Resource Error

DanFrey — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:37:36 GMT

Pesky error, that I'm having a hard time getting past. I'm using the JavaScript API 4.8 to create a 2D web map with some relatively simple layers, and hopefully simple labels. For labeling in particular, I apparently need to enable WebGL rendering of my layers. With a simple renderer, my layers draw fine. As soon as I add the requisite WebGL-enabling section though, in the proper location in my header, rendering fails:

If I look at my console in Chrome, I get:

VM5870:1 GET https://static.arcgis.com/fonts/tahoma-bold/0-255.pbf 404 ()

dojo.js:251 [esri.views.2d.engine.webgl.TextureManager]

h {name: "mapview-invalid-resource", message: "Couldn't find font tahoma-bold. Falling back to Arial Unicode MS Regular", details: undefined}
1. details:undefined
2. message:"Couldn't find font tahoma-bold. Falling back to Arial Unicode MS Regular"
3. name:"mapview-invalid-resource"
4. __proto__:b

The WebGL samples work fine, and do not give this error.

Might anyone have an insight?

Thanks in advance.

Re: WebGL Invalid Resource Error

ReneRubalcava — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:32:33 GMT

It doesn't look like tahoma is currently a supported font family.

Labeling | ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.8

Can you try with one of the fonts on that list and see if that works, thanks!

Re: WebGL Invalid Resource Error

DanFrey — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 17:44:55 GMT

Thank you, Rene. I think you've got me headed down the right path. I followed that link and now have a better understanding of supported fonts for what I'm trying to achieve. What was still confusing to me though was that I could find no reference to Tahoma in my label class or anywhere on the page for that matter. I could completely comment out my label class and all references to labeling, and still get the error. Then the light bulb... I was able to confirm a reference to Tahoma Bold in my service definition. This traces back to label setup in ArcPro. So, my next task is to address that, and surely/hopefully that will solve the problem. - thanks again

Re: WebGL Invalid Resource Error

Arne_Gelfert — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 20:11:23 GMT

Hey Dan, what solution did you come up with for this? I'm getting the similar and innocuous seeming error:

It doesn't seem to "hurt" anything since it falls back to another font. But I figured there is probably a way to override the font spec from the map services (which, as you said is generated in Pro) with some JSAPI for text labels.

Re: WebGL Invalid Resource Error

DanFrey — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:02:09 GMT

My services are relatively simple, and I control them, so I went back into Pro, changed all of my label fonts to get rid of tahoma, and re-published the services.

Re: WebGL Invalid Resource Error

Arne_Gelfert — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:23:20 GMT

Thanks, Dan. I haven't dug too deep into which fonts are "allowed", nor did I create the original maps behind the map services. I'm a little surprised that seemingly common fonts like "Arial something" wouldn't be available. But I'll see what I can learn. Thanks for chiming in.

Re: WebGL Invalid Resource Error

Noah-Sager — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 20:53:21 GMT

Here is the official list of which fonts are already hosted by Esri and can be used immediately:

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/guide/labeling/#fonts-for-featurelayer%2C-csvlayer%2C-and-streamlayer

The code snippets are really helpful to make sure you are calling the font resource by the appropriate name.