Any way to label features with a text halo?

[Anonymous User]

Does anyone know of a way to label features with text that has a halo/mask around the label text? This when using a feature service/offline geodatabase feature layer.

Setting a halo in the mxd seems to get removed during the feature service publishing.

Am looking for a better looking text label over imagery - a single plain color doesn't look that great.

Cheers,

-Paul

[MichaelMiller2]

If you add your service to your AGOL map as a feature layer, i.e. url not ending with ../layer#, your labels will appear as you intended in your MXD.

[Anonymous User]

Hi Michael

Thanks for the reply. However, the question is asked in relation to AppStudio, not AGOL. In Qt Creator, add a Featurelayer object with the enableLabels set to true will activate any labelling on the feature service or geodatabase table source, but as yet I haven't found a way to achieve the halo effect.

Cheers.

[SathyaPrasad · Accepted solution]

Not possible. Currently in 10.2.x runtime the label support is rudimentary.

[Anonymous User]

Ok, thanks Sathya. I assume this is something on the roadmap for the future...

Cheers,

-Paul

[SathyaPrasad]

Yes Quartz Runtime should have better support for labels.