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How to create maptips in Arcpad

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12-06-2011 04:48 AM
asawarithuse
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Hello,
I have created maptips in ArcGIS and then checkout the layer to ArcPad10, put I am not able to see them in Arcpad. Please tel me how to create maptips in Arcpad 10.

Thank you,
Asawari
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TimHopper
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Asawari,

Unfortunately, MapTips are not supported in ArcPad.  While this could potentially work on a desktop computer (but has not been included in ArcPad), devices that run a Windows Mobile OS would not be able to utilize this technology.  MapTips allow you to hover your mouse over a feature and return a text string.  The Windows Mobile OS requires that you actually tap on the screen, it does not allow for "hover" capabilities.

My best suggestion would be to create a custom pointer tool which would automatically return either the entire attribute table or a message box containing the info from a few controls when a feature was selected by clicking on the map.  This, however, would require that you have a background in vbscript or jscript.
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