topic Re: Interactive selection Toggle Inside/Overlap in Python Questions

Interactive selection Toggle Inside/Overlap

DavidGabrielse1 — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:33:59 GMT

New to ESRI and Python but have previous programming experience on CAD platforms. Is it possible to access the function or method that controls the selection settings? I would like to be able to toggle between selection "inside" mode an "overlap" via a tool button or function key.

My main difficulty is finding where this setting is being stored and what function is used to set it.

Any help pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.

Thanks

David G

Re: Interactive selection Toggle Inside/Overlap

curtvprice — Mon, 01 May 2017 17:14:30 GMT

David, I think I have bad news for you. Most of the ArcMap user-interface settings like this are only available using ArcObjects .NET, unless they have been explicitly exposed to Python through arcpy.mapping methods and properties. The technology for this is to build a .NET addin. I've seen people connect Python to ArcObjects to do these kinds of things using PythonWin hooks into Windows APIs but it not well supported.

Re: Interactive selection Toggle Inside/Overlap

DavidGabrielse1 — Mon, 01 May 2017 20:52:50 GMT

Curtis, Thank you. Sounds like .NET is the preferred development tool for manipulating the UI.