Is there a drawing completed/activation completed event for layouts?
Hi Scott,
You can try to subscribe to this event: "ArcGIS.Desktop.Layouts.Events.LayoutViewEvent" and in the event handler you can look at the Type and IsReady attributes as shown in the code snippet below. If args.Type is "Initialized" and args.LayoutView.IsReady is true your layout is ready to be 'processed'. However, as I tested this event I did notice that the events are not kicked off if an 'active' layout is open in your Project file, instead the events only work if you change the active layout after the project is loaded. I relayed your requirements and the issues I found to the development team and they are looking to fix these issues for the 2.3 release.
Below is the code I added to my Module class, ActiveLayoutEventsPaneViewModel is a property that defines my status display Dockpane. I also set the 'autoload' attribute for the insertModule tag in the config.daml to true.
private static void OnLayoutViewEvent (ArcGIS.Desktop.Layouts.Events.LayoutViewEventArgs args)
{
// For display in my dockpane:
if (ActiveLayoutEventsPaneViewModel != null)
{
var status = $@"LayoutViewEvent: {args.LayoutView.Layout.Name}{Environment.NewLine} arg Type: {args.Type.ToString()}";
if (args.LayoutView.IsReady) status += $@"{Environment.NewLine} layoutView is Ready";
ActiveLayoutEventsPaneViewModel.UpdateStatusText(status);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// gives this add-ins a chance to initialize itself and return its status to the calling Framework.
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
protected override bool Initialize()
{
// initialize layout events
_subscriptionToken = ArcGIS.Desktop.Layouts.Events.LayoutViewEvent.Subscribe(OnLayoutViewEvent);
return base.Initialize();
}
And this is the result after I opened a layout view:
I hope this helps,
- Wolf
