topic Flex Viewer Shortcut Keys in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Flex Viewer Shortcut Keys

ShaunWeston — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:57:23 GMT

I know theres a bunch of short keys with the Flex Viewer e.g. press F goes to full extent. Just wondering where in the Flex Viewer these are set? so I could add my own ones and change existing ones.

Re: Flex Viewer Shortcut Keys

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 03:11:34 GMT

Shaun,

Those Shortcuts are built into the API and not the Viewer. But if you want to add some then you would do it in the MapManger.mxml

                    map.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, mapMouseUp);
                    map.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mapMouseDown);

Re: Flex Viewer Shortcut Keys

AnthonyGiles — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:50:52 GMT

Robert,

Do you know if there is a list of these shortcuts anywhere?

Regards

Anthony

Re: Flex Viewer Shortcut Keys

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:06:20 GMT

Anthony,

Some are listed on the Map Component API reference: ( but it does not seem to be a complete list )

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/flex-api/apiref/com/esri/ags/Map.html

Re: Flex Viewer Shortcut Keys

AnthonyGiles — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:21:17 GMT

Cheers Robert

Re: Flex Viewer Shortcut Keys

ShaunWeston — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:20:22 GMT

Ah cheers, so its in the API.

Can we remove the event listener for the shortcut keys by going map.removeEventListener etc.?

Re: Flex Viewer Shortcut Keys

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:07:10 GMT

Shaun,

No because I believe (could be wrong though) that the API will add them back itself when some other condition is meet. I would use the keboardNavigationEnabled property

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/flex-api/apiref/com/esri/ags/Map.html#keyboardNavigationEnabled

Re: Flex Viewer Shortcut Keys

BjornSvensson — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:38:15 GMT

Some are listed on the Map Component API reference: ( but it does not seem to be a complete list )
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/flex-api/apiref/com/esri/ags/Map.html

Which ones are you missing from the doc? (In addition to the "f" which does a "zoomToInitialExtent()" and is already mentioned in this thread?)

Re: Flex Viewer Shortcut Keys

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:10:31 GMT

Those would be the number keys 1 thru 9 for map navigation and the directional arrows and the Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down, all for navigation.

Re: Flex Viewer Shortcut Keys

BjornSvensson — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:51:49 GMT

Here's the draft doc for the next release:

Map navigation using keyboard:

Press the + key to zoom in at center of map (keyboardNavigationEnabled).

Press the - key to zoom out at center of map (keyboardNavigationEnabled).

Pan using the arrow keys (keyboardNavigationEnabled).

Pan using the numeric keypad: 1 or End key for panning down-left, 2 or down arrow for panning down, 3 or Page Down key for panning down-right, 4 or left arrow for panning left, 6 or right arrow for panning right, 7 or Home key for panning up-left, 8 or up arrow for panning up and 9 or Page Up key for panning up-right (keyboardNavigationEnabled).

Press the "f" key to zoom to initial extent (keyboardNavigationEnabled).

I think that is all the formerly undocumented keyboard shortcut keys 🙂