topic Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1 in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:27:19 GMT

All,

As promised I will continue to convert (most of) my old 1.x widgets to Flex Viewer 2.1.

Here is the next one my enhanced draw widget.

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=91a0014160fc4a9caadc2c7fd7089c1b

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

MarcWeinshenker1 — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:07:46 GMT

Very nice! Thanks, Robert.

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

deleted-user-RjoC4IOGTpoH — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:53:37 GMT

Great job as usual Robert.

Thanks !!

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

ErwanCaradec — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:08:15 GMT

Thanks Robert !

A suggestion : Mesurements labels are not always very legible, i think it would be useful if you could add controls for the TextSymbol properties : border, borderColor, background and backgoundColor.

Erwan

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:12:53 GMT

Erwan,

Thanks for the suggestion I will look into adding this to the next version.

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

LeeAllen — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:47:37 GMT

Thanks, awesome! The only functionality that looks like it is not there is the radius distance display when you draw a circle. Can the code for this be added in?

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:15:19 GMT

Lee,

The old 1.x version of this widget was using a custom circle drawtool and had the ability to display the circles radius when drawing, now that I an using esri's standard drawtool (because it now supports circles and ellipses) we have lost that ability to display the radius when drawing circles.

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

JürgenSchopp — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:57:07 GMT

Hello Robert,

....that is a fantastic widget tool for ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.1. Thank you very much !!!

Juergen Schopp
GIS-Administrator
Verband Region Stuttgart
Germany

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

MattiasEkström — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:38:25 GMT

Robert, I might have found a little bug.
After I've drawn a polyline and want to draw another polyline, I click the icon but now the drawtool isn't a polyline but just a line. But if I click antother icon and then click the polyline icon again then the drawtool will be a polyline again. This behavior is the same in your sample in the code gallery, maybe you want it that way, but to me it doesn't make sense, so I looked at the code and found out that:
when enterstate drawToolsLine DrawTool.POLYLINE is passed to the activateDrawTool function.
<s:State name="drawToolsLine" enterState="activateDrawTool(DrawTool.POLYLINE, null)"/>

but when the image is clicked DrawTool.LINE is passed to the activateDrawTool function.
<mx:Image click="{(currentState == 'drawToolsLine')?activateDrawTool(DrawTool.LINE, null):currentState = 'drawToolsLine'}" ......

I guess it's supposed to be the same in both these cases, DrawTool.POLYLINE if that is the expected tool. I changed the code to this and it works as I want it to.
Just wanted to report this because to me it looks like a typo or something like that...

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:41:07 GMT

Mattias,

Thanks for reporting this, it is just a typo and will be fixed in the next release.

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

CattyannCampbell — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:10:00 GMT

Hi Robert! Thanks for the Enhanced Draw Widget! I suppose I should should thank you for the trouble its causing me of late ;). Actually, I have a questions... We're working on some Fire zones and one of the Firechiefs went through the trouble of using the Enhanced Draw Widget to mark-up an online service and now the issue is we need to get this into ArcGIS Desktop so we can create these zones he added via the draw widget. He saved it as a graphic layer and I can load it up in the map service but not in ArcMap gives me an error there... Is there anyway to load this in ArcMap? Export? Hate for him to do all that work then have to do it over again. Let me know if I'm missing something...

Thanks again!!!! Looking forward to more widgets!

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:37:57 GMT

Cattyann,

Well... I got to say I was not expecting this one. Currently there is no way for you to do this, but if you send me the file I will see what I can do. Depending on how difficult it is I may add a shapefile export or just develop an ArcMap Addon for this.

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

CattyannCampbell — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:12:29 GMT

Cattyann,

Well... I got to say I was not expecting this one. Currently there is no way for you to do this, but if you send me the file I will see what I can do. Depending on how difficult it is I may add a shapefile export or just develop an ArcMap Addon for this.

The file is attached I'll take a shapefile export or whatever I can get...
The map service it goes with is here:
http://giseams.tompkins-co.org/tcfd/index.html

Thanks

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

GeorgiannaStrode — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:30:12 GMT

I tried to add some multi query to the enhanced search widget but it does not work well. What I did was to write the codes like these repetitively:

            <expression useforspatial="true">pid like '[value]%'</expression>
            <textsearchlabel>Search Benchmarks by number... [ Example: DG8990 ]</textsearchlabel>

            <expression useforspatial="true">county like '[value]%'</expression>
            <textsearchlabel>Search Benchmarks by county... [ Example: Orange ]</textsearchlabel>

I was trying to let users query on pid and county. Anyhow, it turns out the wrong way. Does any one know the right way to do it? I just wanna do query on different fields of one layer.

I would appreciate any help.

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:59:56 GMT

Andrea,

You will have to do this in the code. Look for the ColorPicker and set it's selectedColor.

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

AlexJones — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:56:42 GMT

Robert,

Do have any plans to add, or have you experimented with, supporting the ability to move the graphics in the enhanced draw widget? I have tried adding this using object handles, but I am getting a few errors which seem to reference either a null object reference with the gra.geometry.type or Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert com.roguedevelopment.objecthandles::VisualElementHandle@afce479 to com.esri.ags.Graphic. Either way I was curious if you have done any work in this area. I cannot re produce the errors consistently enough for debugging. Sometimes it works and sometimes it fails. I know it is possible without object handles, but it seemed like a viable option for this.

As always thank you.

Alex

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:18:02 GMT

Alex,

Nope, I have not considered adding that to this widget. I curious... How would that be valuable?

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

AlexJones — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:16:45 GMT

This would be great for fine tuning the placement of text in relation to the shapes. The ability to rotate the graphics (text) to best placement along a line for example. In our organization the graphics are heavily used for various reasons, editing will take away from this to some degree, and our users don't always take into account how the graphics or text markup will fall in relation to various layers that may be on or off at that time(unchecked or scale dependent). In our current version (based on 1.x) we added basic support for this using the redlinegraphics sample from the code gallery + your draw widget as a base. I was trying to use object handles to add the ability to move + rotate the graphics layer.

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:03:28 GMT

Alex,

OK now I see the value. Care to share what you have so far, maybe I can get it worked out.

Re: Enhanced Draw Widget for FlexViewer 2.1

AlexJones — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:22:49 GMT

Sure. I included the roguedevelopment package too, but you may want to use a fresh download.

http://code.google.com/p/flex-object-handles/

Eventually I was also going to try using sizing, or sizing constraints with the graphics layer as well.