topic Re: Add identify button to navigation widget in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Add identify button to navigation widget

AnthonyGiles — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 16:06:46 GMT

All,

I am trying to add an icon to the navigation widget that opens up the identify widget, i.e:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20812[/ATTACH]

I have managed to do this by adding the following to the navigation.mxml:

in the array collection for the images added:

<s:ArrayCollection>
<fx:Object action="pan" imageIcon="assets/images/i_pan.png" label="{LocalizationUtil.getDefaultString('panLabel')}"/>
<fx:Object action="zoomin" imageIcon="assets/images/i_zoomin.png" label="{LocalizationUtil.getDefaultString('zoomInLabel')}" visible="false"/>
<fx:Object action="zoomout" imageIcon="assets/images/i_zoomout.png" label="{LocalizationUtil.getDefaultString('zoomOutLabel')}"/>
<fx:Object action="identify" imageIcon="assets/images/i_identify.png" label="Identify" />
</s:ArrayCollection>

and then changed the doNavAction function to the following:

private function doNavAction(action:String, label:String):void
{
   var data:Object =
   {
       tool: action,
       status: label
   }
   if(data.tool == "identify")
  {
      AppEvent.dispatch(AppEvent.WIDGET_RUN, ViewerContainer.getInstance().widgetManager.getWidgetId("Identify"));
      AppEvent.dispatch(AppEvent.SET_MAP_NAVIGATION, {tool: "Pan",status: "Pan"});
   }
   else
  {
   AppEvent.dispatch(AppEvent.SET_MAP_NAVIGATION, data);
  }
}

This opens up the identify widget as expected and sets the map navigation back to pan, but unfortunatly it does not change the selected icon to the pan icon, how can I represent a mouse click on the pan icon using code,

Regards

Anthony

Re: Add identify button to navigation widget

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:07:39 GMT

Anthony,

Try this:

private function doNavAction(action:String, label:String):void {
    var data:Object ={
        tool: action,
        status: label
    };
    if(data.tool == "identify"){
        AppEvent.dispatch(AppEvent.WIDGET_RUN, ViewerContainer.getInstance().widgetManager.getWidgetId("Identify"));
        AppEvent.dispatch(AppEvent.SET_MAP_NAVIGATION, {tool: "pan",status: "Pan"});
        var timeoutExample:uint = setTimeout(function():void{btnBar.selectedIndex = 0;},500);
   }else{
        AppEvent.dispatch(AppEvent.SET_MAP_NAVIGATION, data);
   };
}

Re: Add identify button to navigation widget

AnthonyGiles — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:43:14 GMT

Thanks Robert,

I'll give it a try when I'm in work tomorrow and yet you know how I get on

Regards

Anthony

Re: Add identify button to navigation widget

AnthonyGiles — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:09:46 GMT

Robert,

Works perfectly thank you

Regards

Anthony

Re: Add identify button to navigation widget

SaurabhGupta5 — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 08:56:43 GMT

Hi Robert,

I am trying to use same code but timer clock is not going away even after adding timer. What shall i do now?

Thanks

Re: Add identify button to navigation widget

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:02:17 GMT

Saurabh,

Did you add the import for ViewerContainer?

import com.esri.viewer.ViewerContainer;

Also you need to add the following line to the initButtonBar function

navAC.addItem({ label: "Identify", action: "identify", imageIcon: "assets/images/i_info.png" });

Re: Add identify button to navigation widget

SaurabhGupta5 — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:17:01 GMT

Hi robert, yes i made it working now. thanks but i want to do something different instead of opening existing widget from this location. i have started new thread for same.

Help on identify toolhel

Thanks for your help