How to create a new (non-feature-linked) annotation feature and set its annotation?

TiCrossman — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:57:29 GMT

I am using ArcGIS-ArcView 10.0 and Python 2.6.5 in an external script. All objects created in the script are in process, built using IObjectFactory. I want to create a new annotation feature in an existing, non-feature-linked annotation feature class. I am starting with IFeatureClass on a valid annotation feature class (pAnnoFC). I am creating only one feature at a time, so I thought I could use IFeatureClass.CreateFeature instead of an InsertCursor and InsertFeature. The following code,

    pNewFeature = pAnnoFC.CreateFeature

instead of returning IFeature, returns a bound method pointer with Python type:

<bound method POINTER(IFeatureClass).CreateFeature of <POINTER(IFeatureClass) ptr=0x3fb09a4 at 12d9a9e0>>

In need to QI to IAnnotationFeature2 to set the Annotation and other properties, but I need a valid IFeature to do that. I also want then to update the value of a long integer field that I added to the existing anno class. How do I go about creating a valid new anno feature (IFeature)?

Thank you all for the help. --Ti

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How to create a new (non-feature-linked) annotation feature and set its annotation?