Latest Contributions by TedCronin

yep, my comment is more about the idea that if we unselect using the core unselect tool, the Mini browser or Browse features retains the core data from the Reviewer table as selected, meaning that if I unselect in Core, I do not unselect in Reviewer.  This is a nice feature of Reviewer. Now, it does make sense to have one name for this dialog.  On one hand its called the Mini Browser when the data already resides in the Reviewer Table, and the other its referred as Browse Features when a check has been run, and there are selections that have been created because they failed the Check.  I would think that perhaps in the dialog that pops up after a single check, it should say Launch Mini Browser to view, or perhaps, in the Reviewer table, if I right click it should say Browse Features, but not both, as this leads to confusion. ... View more

Every time I open the overview window, its needs a refresh.  It is pinned, and each time I open I need to select something for it to draw, perhaps the refresh rate for this control could be less. ... View more

Yep, I see what you mean for rows.  Thats good to know, not sure what you mean by columns.  I see that I can expand one column at a time, but only one. ... View more

Keep it simple.  Thats the whole philosophy ain't it. Beautiful is better than ugly. Simple is better than complex. Sparse is better than dense. I totally agree with this quote completely and its totally relevant with regards to this forum category and the forums overall.  I would also add: Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. But then having its own category would be a bit more explicit. Explicit is better than implicit. ... View more

Too bad there is not a weight feature on this poll, since Kevin and Jason would be less weight, since they are supporters rather than users. ... View more

So, should the new forum thread be called Python scripting, or just Python? I prefer Python.  Python is a bit past just scripting. ... View more

Yep, that was the reason for the unstick, noting what Chris is doing with a new thread.  So, yep, we will get to see if this new direction fosters more discussion, specific to Python, because really that is what is most dear to most of us anyway, at least to us at the County in the ACR. Thanks Jim, for the reply. ... View more

Jim - Perhaps you can now unstick this thread so it slowly dies away. ... View more

I have tested on a machine running only ArcGIS 10 Desktop, I do the following: 1. Select a feature. 2. Zoom to selected feature. 3. Validate Topology In Current Extent. The feature is unselected. The selection disappears when Esri Production Mapping 10 or ArcGIS Data Reviewer 10 are not installed on the machine. It seems that this is an issue with the core ArcMap functionality and not with Production Mapping or Data Reviewer. Yes, and no.  I am just thinking that Reviewer should override the unselection from topology when a validation occurs, but really, I still want it to select and unselect when not reviewing data, perhaps a flag in an advanced property setting that overrides this capability, driven by Reviewer.  This probably doesn't make sense, and really not a bad thing overall.  Its just that, perhaps I validate initially in the workflow, after identifying and either writing to a table or browsing the features.  I then have to reselect something that was unselected to act on it for correction purposes, seems like a step could be removed from the workflow, if there was a capability to override this topology functionality, but like I said not a super big deal. A related post is here about how I like the Browse capability.  http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/15803-Core-Selection-and-Browse-Selection ... View more

So if I rephrased the title of this thread to be: "Should there be a new Python Scripting forum?" Would you guys (Ted, Goh_Raj, Chris Mathers) go that way? It sounds so far like a shaky "yes", but I want to be sure. I'd poke Dan P. too, but I know he has taken an oath of silence... I am a for for a python thread, however if everyone says yes for this thread, that still leaves only 10 people out of 29,168 people that are registered on these forums, and you figure that probably 2,000 - 3,000 of these users are from Esri (Which I think you have dismissed as potential voters, already), which then makes the odds a bit better in that 10 out of 26,168 users (Taking the high of 3,000 Esri employees registered), still only accounts for .038% of total registered Esri forum users.  Not sure, if that is a number that will convince Esri to go this way or to support an additional thread. ... View more

Thank you Kumar for logging the issue, Fantastic. ... View more

I'm playing with Arcpy.Mapping now and with all the new goodies in arcpy, yes Python could definitely have more than one category.  I don't know why, but I am currently thinking about the non-python users right now...  I keep thinking: If we have a separate python forum, do you think non-python users can just take a peek at what we are all talking about?  Would they even venture there or would they just stick to playing with tools and models?  I feel they might miss something, like miss a discussion that provided a much easier solution to their problems via python, and thus miss a chance to get them over to the sunnier side of GP.  Heck, if I were a non-Python user and read about the great things that other users are doing with arcpy.mapping, that alone would get me curious.  That is the same with anything else in Python (insert cool python stuff here) and it might trigger a "Hey I think that would help our organization too" or "Wow, you can do that in Python, let me check that out!"  I see positives and negatives for keeping GP together or splitting it up, so what happens now? I think in regards to Python, and the users here on these forums, a separate category will not deter first time users and perhaps scare them away.  Python first and foremost is not C++, that would scare me away, but if I want to learn, I would definitely read a C++ forum, if I was thinking I would get into that language (NOT!).  Python is a fairly easy language to get your head around.  If I can use it, anyone can use it and a separate python category, would not only help long time users for a focused format, but also newbies that are just getting started.  People on these forums are here to help, I know when I run into problems where do I go, I come here, I read other people solutions (I also learn from a few people at esri, from the GP Resource Center, too), I learn from their code, which ultimately makes my code better.  If I were a new person trying to get in to something like Python, I gotta think it would be easier and more succinct to look through 400 posts in a Python thread, and not have to go through 3,000 posts in a GP thread, just to copy a bit of code for my script that may be as easy as looping through a GDB to list out FCs in their respective FDs.  Besides the new thread ultimately becomes a KB for Python, for User Python examples that solve real world issues. I think a separate category will still get these same responses: "Hey I think that would help our organization too" "Wow, you can do that in Python, let me check that out!" ... View more