topic Re: Modifying an exisitng widget in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Modifying an exisitng widget

RemiBecheru — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 11:18:08 GMT

Are there any possibilities to get the code of a widget and modify the render method?

I checked the youtube resources -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4yzbiHIAT8&t=125s

But in there they use a tsx file where you can modify whatever you want. Now looks like those tsx files are no longer available.

Re: Modifying an exisitng widget

AndyGup — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:48:06 GMT

@RemiBecherucorrect, as of 4.21 we no longer support directly modifying the out-of-the-box widget View code. Which widget are you using? Some options going forward are extending the ViewModel, or building a custom widget.

A common example for extending the ViewModel is SketchViewModel, here's the doc: https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/api-reference/esri-widgets-Sketch-SketchViewModel.html and here's an example: https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/sample-code/layers-mapnoteslayer/

We are looking into adding a sample and some additional doc on this.

Re: Modifying an exisitng widget

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:19:52 GMT

@AndyGup

Unfortunately your example url seems to be a non-public url.

Re: Modifying an exisitng widget

AndyGup — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:52:26 GMT

Thanks @RobertScheitlin__GISP link has been updated to an existing sample. The other sample (SketchViewModel Styler) will be available in the upcoming 4.22 release.

Re: Modifying an exisitng widget

RemiBecheru — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 22:44:58 GMT

@AndyGup I am interested in the CoordinateConversion widget. Mainly I am not satisfied with the rendered UI, but there are some other things as well.

For example, I would like to input coordinates directly by clicking on the coordinates format instead of clicking on the dedicated edit button.

Re: Modifying an exisitng widget

Noah-Sager — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 15:57:55 GMT

Hi @RemiBecheru, you can use the methods from the CoordinateConversionViewModel in your own UI, if that is of interest to you.

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/api-reference/esri-widgets-CoordinateConversion-CoordinateConversionViewModel.html#methods-summary

I'd like to hear more about your thoughts on the CC widget. Feel free to outline them here, or message me directly.