silverlight maptips

[lyndamccallum]

I'm having an on going problem with maptips.

I have the follow layers defined in my xaml file where MyFeatureLayer is the maptips layer.

<esri:ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer ID="BaseMap" Url="{StaticResource BaseMap}" ></esri:ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer>
            <esri:ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer ID="BaseLayer" Url="{StaticResource WDPurl}"></esri:ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer>
           
            <esri:GraphicsLayer  ID="MyGraphicsLayer"/>
            <esri:GraphicsLayer  ID="FlashFeatureLayer"/>   
                       
               
            <esri:FeatureLayer ID="MyFeatureLayer" Url="{StaticResource FacilitiesLayerID}"  FeatureSymbol="{StaticResource DefaultNoMarkerSymbol}"  >


The problem is every time I put something in mygraphicslayer over an existing point, the maptip for the existing point won't say open long enough to allow me to click on the link within it. All points that are not covered with a feature in the mygraphicslayer work fine. Any ideas?

Another wierd thing is that I don't experience this behaviour when I run in debug mode only once the site is published.

Thanks

[DominiqueBroux]

Be sure that your maptip framework element has:
      - IsHitTestVisible set to true
      - a background not null
      - a MapTipHideDelay > 0

If this doesn't help, please share how your maptip looks like.

[lyndamccallum]

Here is my xaml for it

<esri:FeatureLayer ID="MyFeatureLayer" Url="{StaticResource FacilitiesLayerID}"  FeatureSymbol="{StaticResource DefaultNoMarkerSymbol}"  >
                <esri:FeatureLayer.OutFields>
                    <sys:String>FACILITYNAME</sys:String>
                    <sys:String>SITEFROM</sys:String>
                    <sys:String>SITESTREET</sys:String>
                    <sys:String>SITEDIRECTION</sys:String>
                    <sys:String>SITECITY</sys:String>
                    <sys:String>FACILITYNUMBER</sys:String>
                </esri:FeatureLayer.OutFields>
                <esri:FeatureLayer.MapTip>
                    <Border esri:GraphicsLayer.MapTipHideDelay="00:00:01.5" Style="{StaticResource CommonBorder}" Padding="10,3,10,3"  Effect="{StaticResource dropShadow}" IsHitTestVisible="True" >
                        <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" Margin="20,15,20,15">
                            <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="0,0,0,6">
                                <TextBlock Text="Name: " FontWeight="Bold" Foreground="#FF0F274E" FontSize="12" />
                                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource MyDictionaryConverter},
                                    ConverterParameter=FACILITYNAME, Mode=OneWay}" Foreground="#FFFFFFFF" FontSize="12" FontFamily="Portable User Interface" />
                             </StackPanel>
                            <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="0,0,0,6">
                                <TextBlock Text="Address: " FontWeight="Bold" Foreground="#FF0F274E" FontSize="12" />
                                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource MyDictionaryConverter},
                                    ConverterParameter=SITEFROM, Mode=OneWay}" Foreground="#FFFFFFFF" FontSize="12" FontFamily="Portable User Interface" />
                                <TextBlock Text=" " />
                                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource MyDictionaryConverter},
                                    ConverterParameter=SITESTREET, Mode=OneWay}" Foreground="#FFFFFFFF" FontSize="12" FontFamily="Portable User Interface" />
                                <TextBlock Text=" " />
                                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource MyDictionaryConverter},
                                    ConverterParameter=SITEDIRECTION, Mode=OneWay}" Foreground="#FFFFFFFF" FontSize="12" FontFamily="Portable User Interface" />
                            </StackPanel>
                            <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="0,0,0,6">
                                <TextBlock Text="***************" FontWeight="Bold" Foreground="#FF0F274E" FontSize="12" />
                                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource MyDictionaryConverter},
                                    ConverterParameter=SITECITY, Mode=OneWay}" Foreground="#FFFFFFFF" FontSize="12" FontFamily="Portable User Interface" />
                            </StackPanel>
                            <StackPanel>
                                <!--<TextBlock  Text="Inspection Results" Name="InspectionTextBlock"  Cursor="Hand" TextDecorations="Underline" MouseLeftButtonDown="InspectionTextBlock_MouseLeftButtonDown" Foreground="#FF0F274E" FontSize="12"/>-->
                                <!--<HyperlinkButton x:Name="InspectionHyperlinkButton" TargetName="_blank" Content="{Binding Converter={StaticResource MyDictionaryConverter},ConverterParameter={StaticResource InspectionPage}}" NavigateUri="{Binding Converter={StaticResource MyDictionaryConverter},ConverterParameter={StaticResource InspectionPage}}"  ></HyperlinkButton>-->
                                <HyperlinkButton x:Name="InspectionHyperLinkButton" TargetName="_blank" Content ="Inspection Report" NavigateUri="{Binding Converter={StaticResource UriConverter1}, ConverterParameter=FACILITYNUMBER}" Foreground="#FF0F274E"  FontSize="12"/>
                               
                               
                            </StackPanel>   
                           
                        </StackPanel>
                    </Border>
                </esri:FeatureLayer.MapTip>
            </esri:FeatureLayer>

[DominiqueBroux]

I am not sure that your border has a background (depending on how is defined you CommonBorder style).

Please try by setting a background explicitely.

Something like :

 
<Border esri:GraphicsLayer.MapTipHideDelay="00:00:01.5" Background="White" Padding="10,3,10,3" Effect="{StaticResource dropShadow}" IsHitTestVisible="True" >
......

or

 
<Border esri:GraphicsLayer.MapTipHideDelay="00:00:01.5" Background="Transparent"  Style="{StaticResource CommonBorder}" Padding="10,3,10,3" Effect="{StaticResource dropShadow}" IsHitTestVisible="True" >
 

[lyndamccallum]

yes it has a background. It i set it to white as in your code then it covers over the data in the maptip

[DominiqueBroux]

But with the White background, does the maptip stay open or not?

[lyndamccallum]

no it doesn't stay open

[DominiqueBroux]

Sorry, I am in lack of idea.

With my version, I don't reproduce the behavior after setting a background.

Which API version are you using?

[lyndamccallum]

I'm using arcgis server 9.3.1, and i believe silverlight api 1.2

[lyndamccallum]

sorry i'm using 1.1