topic Re: Identify 2.5.3 Help - Change Highlight? in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Identify 2.5.3 Help - Change Highlight?

KevinHigh — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:40:45 GMT

I'm using the Identify Widget to select polygons of seawall permits. They are usually stacked, so the Identify widget works great for this.

The only problem I have is once the polygons are selected, it's very difficult to see the boundary of each when you scroll over the results. Is there any way to make the way they flash or highlight more drastic when you mouse over a record? The selected parcels become slightly less transparent when the mouse is over a record, but it is not apparent enough.

I think I've exhausted my options with <simplefillsymbol> tags, but I do have Flash Builder - just don't know where to look for this in the uncompiled code.

If anyone could point me in the right direction or give me any ideas on how to achieve this, it would be greatly appreciated.

I'm using the v2.5.3 Identify widget and Flex Viewer 2.5.

Thanks!
Kevin

Re: Identify 2.5.3 Help - Change Highlight?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:46:19 GMT

Kevin,

Sure just replace these two functions in your IdentifyWidget.mxml:

            private function mouseOverRecord(event:Event):void             {                 var gf:spark.filters.GlowFilter = new spark.filters.GlowFilter();                 gf.color = 0x00bff3;                 gf.alpha = 1;                 gf.strength = 2;                 gf.blurX = 8;                 gf.blurY = 8;                 var idResult:IdResult = ItemRenderer(event.target).data as IdResult;                 var iG:Number = (graphicsLayer.graphicProvider as ArrayCollection).getItemIndex(idResult.graphic);                 (graphicsLayer.graphicProvider as ArrayCollection).getItemAt(iG).filters = [gf];                 clearTimeout(hitimer);                 if (map.extent.containsXY(idResult.point.x, idResult.point.y))                     if(enableMoverRec)                         hitimer = setTimeout(showHighlight, 300, [idResult]);                 else                     hideInfoWindow();             }                          private function mouseOutRecord(event:Event):void             {                 var idResult:IdResult = ItemRenderer(event.target).data as IdResult;                 var iG:Number = (graphicsLayer.graphicProvider as ArrayCollection).getItemIndex(idResult.graphic);                 (graphicsLayer.graphicProvider as ArrayCollection).getItemAt(iG).filters = [];                 hideInfoWindow();                 clearSelectedGrapics(null);             }

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Re: Identify 2.5.3 Help - Change Highlight?

KevinHigh — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:39:30 GMT

Once again, thanks for you help!

Now I have a different issue: I'm trying to compile the Identify Widget after making those modifications to the mxml, but I'm getting the attached error on the MXML module. ("1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: IdResultDataGroup.")

Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?

This is actually my first time using Flash Builder and I'm lost. I followed the 'creating widgets' page on the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Developer Guide. Trying to create a bin-release folder with the sample source code (flexviewer-2.5-src.zip).

Re: Identify 2.5.3 Help - Change Highlight?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:10:09 GMT

Kevin,

It sounds like you do not have the identify widget in the correct directory structure.

This is what the path should look like src/widgets/Identify/IdentifyWidget.mxml

[ATTACH=CONFIG]12746[/ATTACH]

Re: Identify 2.5.3 Help - Change Highlight?

KevinHigh — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:22:38 GMT

Robert,

Thanks again for all of your help! This is perfect.