topic How do I disable zoom/pan animation? in .NET Maps SDK Questions

How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

BjørnarSundsbø1 — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:17:48 GMT

In the Runtime for WPF I was able to disable animation of zoom and pan by changing ZoomDuration and PanDuration to 0ms. I felt this resulted in a much faster experience navigating the map, and the users agreed. However, in the Runtime for .NET, this doesn't seem possible. MapView performs a zoom with a hard coded value of true for animate for the core map, and I'm not able to affect what this value can be. Is there any way I can interact with the core map to disable the animation, or at least overriding the duration value? Navigating my old map in the WPF implementation is so much more responsive than the same basemap in the .NET implementation.

I expect the runtime will not get more releases, and v100 is not ready for our needs, so we will stick with the previous release. But at least this is a feature request for the v100 API. Animations can be nice, but should at least be configurable or optional

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

JenniferNery — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:52:39 GMT

Thanks for your feedback. We did have global setting for zoom and pan duration.

In v100, you can also use SetViewpoint which will not have animation, or provide shorter TimeSpan in these methods: SetViewpointAsync with Timespan and SetViewpointAsync with Timespan and AnimationCurve if done in code.

But I think you mean while interacting with the map no code-behind just flick and zoom, you have no control over the animation speed, is that correct?

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

BjørnarSundsbø1 — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 22:04:07 GMT

I'm aware of the SetViewpoint overloads. And you are correct, I mean the direct map interaction options for double tap, pinch, wheel and flick/drag.

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

dotMorten_esri — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:26:02 GMT

It's on our backlog, but not currently possible to disable.

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

BjørnarSundsbø1 — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:01:28 GMT

I've started looking at 100.2.0, and I can not find a way to control the animation speed. It would be very convenient to have it available on MapViewInteractionOptions.

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

dotMorten_esri — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:29:57 GMT

Are you referring to the zoom speed when double-click/mouse-wheeling on the map? Or the SetViewpointXXXX methods?

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

BjørnarSundsbø1 — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:38:02 GMT

Double click, mouse wheel and pan using mouse.

On a slightly related topic, I just upgraded to the latest version from 10.2.7 today, and experience in my actual application that zoom wheel just changes the scale but keeps the center. In my test application, it zooms around the mouse cursor. Any immediate thoughts on why this would happen? I haven't had the time to investigate or create a mockup, but perhaps you might know. This was not the case before upgrading.

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

dotMorten_esri — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:42:41 GMT

As Jennifer mentioned above, there's currently no API for setting the zoom speed or amount at this point. You can disable zoom interaction, listen for double-click/wheel yourself and call the SetViewpoint methods manually if you'd like.

10.2.7 and v100.x hasn't changed behavior wrt centering. Zoom has always been around the mouse cursor.

Wrt to pan speed, the pan is the exact speed of the mouse. When you subsequently "flick" the map, it's relies on the system settings for this (I believe it's configurable in the control panel).

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

BjørnarSundsbø1 — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:48:14 GMT

Ok, thanks. Was initially referring to your previous mention that it was on your backlog. But apparently not yet added to a release yet

There must be something in my application causing the zoom center issue, since it doesn't occur in my test app. Will investigate more when I'm back at the office.

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

dotMorten_esri — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:54:51 GMT

Sorry... our backlog is rather large . Unfortunately we haven't discovered the secret to infinite resources, so some things with higher priority gets done before others. I'll see what I can do to get it placed in a release in the near future.

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

BjørnarSundsbø1 — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:33:48 GMT

If you find the secret, let me know. You could make part of the API as open source, and suddenly have a lot more available resources

Earlier today i tried performing a pan over slow remote desktop connection, and the post pan float animation behaviour was rather strange. Option to disable would be great.

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

dotMorten_esri — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:41:17 GMT

Your wish is my command (sometimes :-)) https://developers.arcgis.com/net/latest/wpf/api-reference//html/P_Esri_ArcGISRuntime_UI_InteractionOptions_IsFlickEnabled.htm

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

BjørnarSundsbø1 — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:07:42 GMT

Nice. Requesting feature before bed, and having it available before I wake up in the morning. Convincing myself that is how the story went, I can get used to that

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

dotMorten_esri — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:58:49 GMT

Actually I grabbed my time machine and went back in time and added it to 100.1. We aim to please our customers that much!

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

BjørnarSundsbø1 — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 19:00:44 GMT

Rock on!

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

BjørnarSundsbø1 — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:05:32 GMT

I know I should be satisfied with your previous response about trying to put this task to a release in the near futer, and hope this reminder don't bump me back to the end of the backlog I still appreciate the previous response, so don't get me wrong. While I don't know to what extent I can influence priority, I thought I'd give some context to my repeated reminder/request. My assumption is that the secret to unlimited resources is still elusive... I just thought I'd add these details if it can make a difference between 100.3 and 100.4

Our customers work with emergency dispatch, where seconds can help save a life, or keep a fire from spreading out of control. What most people consider a sexy animation, can serve as an added stressor for the operator trying to shave off seconds in their work. In the past, we used WPF runtime for these customers, which allowed to set Zoom and Pan duration. We got a request to reduce the default animation, and ended up at 150ms. This was still considered way to slow, and we ended up turning this off, and the customer was very pleased Whenever we upgrade them to the latest runtime, this missing feature is guaranteed to raise eyebrows and stress levels. I was just reminded of this case today, where one customer is tweaking ArcGIS Server to reduce response times, so I thought I'd provide the information. I don't know how many other API customers work in this field, but if there are, there are sure to be other interested parties besides me

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

BjørnarSundsbø1 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:22:42 GMT

Morten Nielsen‌ any news for a schedule for this? I'm currently comparing an old application using the first runtime for WPF with 100.3, and the interaction with no animation is so much more responsive than what I experience in later versions. Also, see my arguments above.

Re: How do I disable zoom/pan animation?

BjørnarSundsbø1 — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 20:32:19 GMT

I also notice that SceneView zoom animation is twice as slow as MapView. I would love to be able to control the duration of both views.