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PictureMarkerSymbol - can it be rotated or angle changed?

CarmenDurham — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:42:31 GMT

All,

I have an application that will track the GPS location of a vehicle. I would like to change the rotation/angle of an esri.symbol.PictureMarkerSymbol to match the direction of the vehicle. I can't seem to find a way to alter the rotation of the symbol. I can extract the direction with no problem, it is rotating a PictureMarkerSymbol that is the problem.

I didn't see a property for this, so I just want to make sure I am not missing anything.

Thanks,
Carmen

Re: PictureMarkerSymbol - can it be rotated or angle changed?

KellyHutchins — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 01:23:56 GMT

Yes you can change the angle for a picture marker symbol. The PictureMarkerSymbol class inherits from MarkerSymbol which has a setAngle method. Here's a code snippet that shows how this works:

var infoSymbol = new esri.symbol.PictureMarkerSymbol("../images/info.png",30,30);
 infoSymbol.setAngle(45);

Re: PictureMarkerSymbol - can it be rotated or angle changed?

CarmenDurham — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:20:44 GMT

Kelly,

I could has sworn that I tried this once with no luck. But based on your reply, I tried again and it worked fine. So, thank you!

Carmen