Graphic Element Order

[LakshmananVenkatesan]

Hi,

I am adding graphic element to my graphic container on top of active view for Print functionality. Graphic element added successfully but it hides the layer below. For example I add polygon element with Line Fill symbol it hides the below layer label. I tried with different Z order values but nothing seems work. Please help me on this issue.

All I want is to add transparent element on graphics container so that user can see the both element and layer beneath with labels.

SR

[LakshmananVenkatesan]

Can anyone help me on this?

[LeoDonahue]

What type of graphic element are you adding?

Are you adding it to a page layout?

Did you notice that the zorder parameter of addElement() doesn't work with all types of graphic containers?
http://help.arcgis.com/en/sdk/10.0/java_ao_adf/api/arcobjects/com/esri/arcgis/carto/PageLayout.html#...

(which would be these: CompositeGraphicsLayer, FDOGraphicsLayer, GlobeGraphicsLayer, GraphicsLayer3D, GraphicsSubLayer, IGraphicsContainerProxy, Map, PageLayout )
http://help.arcgis.com/en/sdk/10.0/java_ao_adf/api/arcobjects/com/esri/arcgis/carto/IGraphicsContain...

[LakshmananVenkatesan]

Hi Leo

Thanks for help.

Below is code path for adding graphic element. I use FillShapeElement

ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IFillShapeElement FillShpElement = null;
                        FillShpElement = new ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.PolygonElementClass();

                        if (isLineFill)
                        {
                            FillShpElement.Symbol = (ILineFillSymbol)gensymb;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            FillShpElement.Symbol = (ISimpleFillSymbol)gensymb;
                        }

                        element = (ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IElement)FillShpElement;
                        element.Geometry = (IPolygon)geo;
                        graphicsCont.AddElement(element, 0);

Please help.

[JeffreyHamblin]

You can use this to set an ISimpleFillSymbol transparent:

ISimpleFillSymbol fillSymbol = new SimpleFillSymbolClass();

IRgbColor rgbColor = new RgbColorClass();
rgbColor.Red = 255;
rgbColor.Green = 255;
rgbColor.Blue = 255;
rgbColor.UseWindowsDithering = true;
rgbColor.Transparency = 0;

fillSymbol.Color = rgbColor;

Then you need to set the background of your element to that fillSymbol.

[LakshmananVenkatesan]

Jeff

if I set rgb color transparency to zero am not seeing the graphic element at all. What is wrong with that?

[JeffreyHamblin]

From your original post:
"All I want is to add transparent element on graphics container so that user can see the both element and layer beneath with labels."

It is not clear to me exactly what needs to be transparent. As I mentioned, you probably need some sort of element that has a background and set that transparent.

It might help if you create the effect manually in ArcMap and post a screenshot.

[LakshmananVenkatesan]

See the attached image, I have drawn a polygon as element on top of my layer. The layer has labels in all the polygons (ie.'ALAM') but labels behind the  graphic polygon (blue color ) is not appearing.

Hope this is clear now.

[JeffreyHamblin]

You need to add your polygon outline to the layout in order for labels to be visible through it. If the graphic element is instead added to an active dataframe, the labels are moved or hidden as your screenshot shows.

In ArcMap, ensure that no data frame has focus before drawing the polygon (click outside the map page).

If you are making an Add-In, then set the graphics container to the PageLayout:

IGraphicsContainer graphicsContainer = ArcMap.Document.PageLayout as IGraphicsContainer;

[LakshmananVenkatesan]

Here are below steps which am doing..

1) IActiveView av = pMapDocument.ActiveView;
2) av = (IActiveView)pMapDocument.ActiveView.FocusMap;
  
  //stores coordinates minX, minY, maxX, maxY
3)  env.PutCoords(minX, minY, maxX, maxY);
4) graphicsContainer = (ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IGraphicsContainer)pMap; // Explicit Cast
5) Adding all graphics - here
6)  IPageLayout docPageLayout = pMapDocument.PageLayout;
       av.Extent = env;
      av.Extent.CenterAt(midPt);
      av.Refresh();
7) ExportActiveView((IActiveView)docPageLayout, 300, 1, imgType, "D:\\", true);

Please let me know where am going wrong