topic Interactively select shapefile? in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/interactively-select-shapefile/m-p/15380#M1208 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I was curious if anyone knew how I would go about creating a tool which allowed the user to select a shapefile from an interactive map, for example select a particular state from a shapefile of all the states in the U.S. and then the tool will use that particular state shapefile as the clipping extent for the tool.&nbsp; I have a climate dataset for the entire United States and I would like the user to be able to select a particular state on a map so the climate dataset is clipped to just that state.&nbsp; I know how to add the shapefile as a parameter on the tool's gooey, but instead of the user navigating to a shapefile saved somewhere on their computer, I would like them to be able to interactively select that state's shapefile on a map and then that shapefile will be used as the clip extent.&nbsp; If anyone has an idea about how I would go about this please share, thanks!!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:59:52 GMT StephenFricke 2012-08-27T16:59:52Z Interactively select shapefile? https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/interactively-select-shapefile/m-p/15380#M1208 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I was curious if anyone knew how I would go about creating a tool which allowed the user to select a shapefile from an interactive map, for example select a particular state from a shapefile of all the states in the U.S. and then the tool will use that particular state shapefile as the clipping extent for the tool.&nbsp; I have a climate dataset for the entire United States and I would like the user to be able to select a particular state on a map so the climate dataset is clipped to just that state.&nbsp; I know how to add the shapefile as a parameter on the tool's gooey, but instead of the user navigating to a shapefile saved somewhere on their computer, I would like them to be able to interactively select that state's shapefile on a map and then that shapefile will be used as the clip extent.&nbsp; If anyone has an idea about how I would go about this please share, thanks!!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:59:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/interactively-select-shapefile/m-p/15380#M1208 StephenFricke 2012-08-27T16:59:52Z Re: Interactively select shapefile? https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/interactively-select-shapefile/m-p/15381#M1209 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">I was curious if anyone knew how I would go about creating a tool which allowed the user to select a shapefile from an interactive map, for example select a particular state from a shapefile of all the states in the U.S. and then the tool will use that particular state shapefile as the clipping extent for the tool.&nbsp; I have a climate dataset for the entire United States and I would like the user to be able to select a particular state on a map so the climate dataset is clipped to just that state.&nbsp; I know how to add the shapefile as a parameter on the tool's gooey, but instead of the user navigating to a shapefile saved somewhere on their computer, I would like them to be able to interactively select that state's shapefile on a map and then that shapefile will be used as the clip extent.&nbsp; If anyone has an idea about how I would go about this please share, thanks!!</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Python is incapable of setting a data frame's clip geometry.&nbsp; It has no arcpy.mapping method to do that.&nbsp; So if that is what you mean by setting a clip extent then you must use the IMap.ClipGeometry ArcObjects interface.&nbsp; I am programming an Add-In extension that will listen to AfterDraw events and watch a hidden text object in my map to get messages from Python to set a data frame clip after a long Python script.&nbsp; If want your routine to use the shapefile in connection with the Clip geoprocessing tool that is a different matter (straight Python can do that), but I would normally assume that an interactive map involves dealing with data frame clipping.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:56:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/interactively-select-shapefile/m-p/15381#M1209 RichardFairhurst 2012-08-27T18:56:57Z