Showcase ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.0 Sites

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

All,

   I just wanted to share with you my new ArcGIS Viewer 2.0 Beta Site.

Here are the Links:

• ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.0 Using Classic Banner (http://gis.calhouncounty.org/flexviewer2.0/index.html?config=config-calhoun-classic.xml).


• ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.0 Using my custom header controller (http://gis.calhouncounty.org/flexviewer2.0/).

I am busy working on my Dynamic Legend Widget for ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.0 and will submit it to the code gallery when done (most people will have to wait until they deploy ArcGIS Server 10 before they can use it though).

FYI- I probably will not share any of my code changes that I did for my site until the viewer is out of Beta, that way I won't have code out there that will just break once ESRI releases the final version.

Be sure to share you ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.0 Site once you get them deployed.:D

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Ken,

   Thanks for the headsup I was able to get this error in IE 7 when I got home on a slower internet connection...? IE 7 must be do things in a strange order as the offending line of code what just a simple line telling the graphicsLayer  to be visible. Hum... Anyway I have put some checks in there now to be sure the graphicsLayer for all my widgets that use graphicsLayers are not null before I try to use them.

Great new look, Robert. However, I am getting a Flash error when opening your custom header version.

[TonyCollins]

I'm not a fan of the 'Code Gallery', title either. When I first visited the site I spent ages looking for the download option and never found it because you could not download any code. Obviously I know now, but I was very frustrated at the time looking for it...

[KenBuja]

Ken,

   Thanks for the headsup I was able to get this error in IE 7 when I got home on a slower internet connection...? IE 7 must be do things in a strange order as the offending line of code what just a simple line telling the graphicsLayer  to be visible. Hum... Anyway I have put some checks in there now to be sure the graphicsLayer for all my widgets that use graphicsLayers are not null before I try to use them.

Hi Robert,

I was getting this on Firefox 3.6.3 with Flash 10,1,53,64 and a high speed connection

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Ken,

   Do I have the error fixed now?

[KenBuja]

It's coming up with a different error now. The message Error #1009 flashes briefly, then disappears. The empty error window remains. This happens on Firefox 3.6.6 (upgraded last night) every time I refresh it and once on IE7, but not on subsequent refreshes.

[KenBuja]

This also happens once in Google Chrome on the first time, but not on refresh. I've been noticing that the tool bar is not consistently appearing in IE7 (we're not able to upgrade to 8 yet). Sometimes, the arrows to move the icons do not appear until I move the cursor over the map (filling in the X,Y coordinates) or resize the window. This is very intermittent.

[KenBuja]

Here's a better illustration of the arrows not appearing initially.

And as I refresh the Firefox view, I'm seeing the same issue

[CarmenDurham]

Robert,

At first I was going to say that I had no problems with the sites using IE7.  I was bouncing around between the two trying to see what the other guy was seeing.  After about the 5th time, I finally got the error, then the next time some of the tools didn't appear.  Then it started working okay again.

Weird. 

I like the new toolbar though.  It keeps the banner out of the display area - especially when something appears beneath the banner.

Carmen

[DonCaviness]

Robert, how difficult was it to move from the SFV to the new ArcGIS Viewer for Flex?  I am about to start the migration and I have a lot of custom code in the SFV, just want to know what I have in store!

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Don,

   I don't think it was to hard. The big thing is if you are migrating your custom widgets and want to use mainly Spark then you have to get rid of your repeaters and switch to data groups, which force you to develop item renderers for the datagroup. I went ahead and took the time to migrate all my widgets to the new Spark components all except for my TOC widget. I had to fix serveral things in the Beta Viewer, like data messaging, the infopopupwidget, lots of css, issues with the tooltips and header widgets appearing below docked widgets, etc.

There no time like to present to dive in as this is the direction everyone needs to go.