topic Re: Change Caption of Base Command in ArcObjects SDK Questions

Change Caption of Base Command

deleted-user-ATjHIWsdQYmT — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:35:11 GMT

I have a tool that inherits BaseCommand. It's set as a Toggle button to be toggled on when editing and off when not. When toggled on the caption should read "Stop Editing" and when Off it should read "Start Editing". The code below worked fine in 9.3.1 but for some reason the caption no longer changes.

Any ideas?

 Public Overrides Sub OnClick()
        'TODO: Add StartStopEditing.OnClick implementation

        Dim pID As New UID
        Dim pfLayer As IFeatureLayer = Nothing
        Dim pDataSet As IDataset = Nothing
        Dim pMxDoc As IMxDocument = Nothing

        'Start/Stop Editing Sign workspace
        Try
            pID.Value = "esriEditor.Editor"
            _pEditor = m_application.FindExtensionByCLSID(pID)
            pMxDoc = CType(m_application.Document, IMxDocument)
            pfLayer = pMxDoc.FocusMap.Layer(GetIndexNumberOfLayerName(pMxDoc.ActiveView, sLayerName))
            pDataSet = pfLayer.FeatureClass
            If _pEditor.EditState = ESRI.ArcGIS.Editor.esriEditState.esriStateNotEditing Then
                _pEditor.StartEditing(pDataSet.Workspace)
                MyBase.m_caption = "Stop Editing"
                MyBase.m_checked = True
            ElseIf _pEditor.EditState = ESRI.ArcGIS.Editor.esriEditState.esriStateEditing Then
                MyBase.m_caption = "Start Editing"
                MyBase.m_checked = False
                _pEditor.StopEditing(True)
            End If

        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.ToString)
        End Try
    End Sub

Re: Change Caption of Base Command

SherryVotava — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:19:18 GMT

I'm experiencing the same with my command under 10. Did you come up with a solution?

Re: Change Caption of Base Command

deleted-user-ATjHIWsdQYmT — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:40:49 GMT

I'm experiencing the same with my command under 10. Did you come up with a solution?

Nope, I have yet to come to a solution. Have you tried Tech Support?

Re: Change Caption of Base Command

SherryVotava — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:56:57 GMT

Nope, I have yet to come to a solution. Have you tried Tech Support?

No, I have not contacted them. I need to talk to my end users first and see if they even care.

Re: Change Caption of Base Command

deleted-user-ATjHIWsdQYmT — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:46:57 GMT

No, I have not contacted them. I need to talk to my end users first and see if they even care.

Unfortunately I need it to change. If I have time I'll call Support. Let me know if you get a solution beforehand.

Re: Change Caption of Base Command

JohnHauck — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:52:03 GMT

This is logged as NIM059312. If you have support please contact ESRI technical support and have your customer information associated with the NIM.

Re: Change Caption of Base Command

deleted-user-ATjHIWsdQYmT — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:48:23 GMT

This is logged as NIM059312. If you have support please contact ESRI technical support and have your customer information associated with the NIM.

Contacted Support. They created a new incident and referenced the NIM. What should my expectations be of this being fixed relatively soon?

Re: Change Caption of Base Command

deleted-user-ATjHIWsdQYmT — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:12:01 GMT

I just did a quick lookup to see the status of this bug. When i search customers.esri.com there is no update. BUT.. if I just search for the NIM under support.esri.com I see it has been "DECLINED". Really!? Since when is it appropriate to decline fixing something that used to work to begin with?

Re: Change Caption of Base Command

ChrisFox3 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:43:49 GMT

Hi Andrew,

Unfortunately this is a known-limit at 10.0 with the new command bars. At 10.1 you will be able to use CommandItem.Caption to accomplish this workflow.

Re: Change Caption of Base Command

deleted-user-ATjHIWsdQYmT — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:46:47 GMT

I haven't tried yet but, will CommandItem.Caption work at 10.0? If not, what is (or is there)a workaround?

UPDATE: I tried... It didn't work. So what do us 10.0 users do?

Re: Change Caption of Base Command

ChrisFox3 — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:47:06 GMT

Hi Andrew,

There is actually another bug related to ICommandItem.Caption property not behaving as expected, NIM072205. This bug is fixed at 10.1 and will be fixed in Service Pack 4 for ArcGIS 10 as well. So at this time there is no workaround for 10, however when Service Pack 4 is released early next year you should be able to use ICommandItem.Caption.