Latest Contributions by SteveCole

At the conference in the workshop about using Maplex, the presenters mentioned that there was a USPS abbreviation dictionary available but I can't seem to find it on any of the ESRI pages (or desktop help). Am I just missing the link? ... View more

One more question- I'd like to add an overview map to my map but in all of the samples using overview maps that I've seen, the overview map pans and zooms (albeit at the specification ratio compared to the main map). I don't want this behavior. Is it possible to "lock" the background of the overview map to a specified extent and have just the main map's map extent move around? I want my overview map to show the full extent of my county and just have the representation of the main map's map extent move around. Thanks! Steve ... View more

Is is possible to "print" without having a user initiate the process by clicking a button? From my review of the API documentation, it appears to me that it is required to have a dijit button on your web map to set up some of the printing parameters and then the click event of the button is what triggers the actual print event. I'm hoping I can trigger a print event in another fashion such as a when my page has been idle for a certain amount of time or perhaps loses focus. Under the current structure of the API, I don't think this is possible. These circumstances seem odd but I have a reason for doing it this way. Thanks! Steve ... View more

I'm building a small app that has a basemap and one featureLayer that has an infoWindow associated with it. When the user clicks on one of those features, I also need to retrieve the coordinates of the feature that the user clicked on. My understanding is that you can use the OnClick event with dojo.connect to do this:        dojo.connect(map,"onClick",function(evt){    var query = new esri.tasks.Query();    query.geometry = pointToExtent(map,evt.mapPoint,10);     var deferred = theFeatureLayer.selectFeatures(query,esri.layers.FeatureLayer.SELECTION_NEW);     map.infoWindow.setFeatures([deferred]);    map.infoWindow.show(evt.mapPoint);     alert('Made it here!');    var pt = new esri.geometry.Point(evt.mapPoint.y,evt.mapPoint.x, new esri.SpatialReference({wkid:3857}));    var MercPt = esri.geometry.webMercatorToGeographic(evt.mapPoint);    var theLong = MercPt.x;    var theLat = MercPt.y;    var didSucceed = window.clipboardData.setData('Text', '@Coord:' + theLong.toString() + ',' + theLat.toString() );   }); If a user clicks on the map where there isn't a feature, the OnClick event captures it and I'm able to access the click point's coordinates. If they click on a feature, it seems to bypass the OnClick code (hence my small alert line in the code above). What's the best way to capture the coordinates of a clicked feature?? Thanks! Steve ... View more

I have a small subroutine in a VB.NET add-in I'm developing and it's sole purpose is to open a standalone table stored in a file geodatabase and add a new record to it. I searched through help and the forum to cobble together some similar code which compiles but errors once it's called. Here's the subroutine: Public Sub addPhotoToGeoDatabase(ByVal theGTagInfo As geoTaggedInfo)         Try             Dim ptable As ITable              ' Create a file geodatabase workspace factory.             Dim factoryType As Type = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("esriDataSourcesGDB.FileGDBWorkspaceFactory")             Dim workspaceFactory As IWorkspaceFactory = CType(Activator.CreateInstance(factoryType), IWorkspaceFactory)              ' Create a file geodatabase.             Dim workspaceName As IWorkspaceName = workspaceFactory.OpenFromFile("G:\PublicWk\geoTagging\pwPhotoDatabaseTest.gdb", 0)              ' Open the geodatabase using the name object.             Dim Name As ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem.IName = CType(workspaceName, ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem.IName)             Dim workspace As IWorkspace = CType(Name.Open(), IWorkspace)              ' Cast the workspace to the IWorkspaceEdit2 interface.             Dim workspaceEdit As IWorkspaceEdit = CType(workspace, IWorkspaceEdit)              ' Start an edit session. An undo/redo stack isn't necessary in this case.             workspaceEdit.StartEditing(False)              ' Start an edit operation.             workspaceEdit.StartEditOperation()             ptable = workspace.OpenTable("tblGeotaggedPhotos")              ' Create a row. The row's attribute values should be set here and if             ' a feature is being created, the shape should be set as well.             Dim row As IRow = ptable.CreateRow()             row.Value("Latitude") = theGTagInfo.latitude             row.Value("Longitude") = theGTagInfo.longitude             row.Value("Descrip") = theGTagInfo.description             row.Value("Keywords") = theGTagInfo.keywords             row.Value("gTagByUser") = theGTagInfo.taggedByUserName             row.Value("gTagByFullName") = theGTagInfo.tageedByFullName             row.Value("DateGeotagged") = theGTagInfo.dateTagged             row.Value("FileName") = theGTagInfo.filename             row.Value("FullPath") = theGTagInfo.fullpath             row.Store()              ' Save the edit operation. To cancel an edit operation, the AbortEditOperation             ' method can be used.             workspaceEdit.StopEditOperation()              ' Stop the edit session. The saveEdits parameter indicates the edit session             ' will be committed.             workspaceEdit.StopEditing(True)              ptable = Nothing             row = Nothing             workspace = Nothing             workspaceEdit = Nothing             factoryType = Nothing             workspaceFactory = Nothing         Catch ex As Exception             globalErrorHandler(ex)         End Try     End Sub and I have the following imported at the top of my module: Imports ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase Imports ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto When the subroutine is called, it gets to the following line and crashes: Dim workspaceName As IWorkspaceName = workspaceFactory.OpenFromFile("G:\PublicWk\geoTagging\pwPhotoDatabaseTest.gdb", 0) The exact error returned is.. ERROR DESCRIPTION:  Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.IWorkspaceName'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{FADD975C-E36F-11D1-AA81-00C04FA33A15}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)). TYPE OF ERROR:   System.InvalidCastException STACK TRACE:   at geoTagPhotos2.usrFunctions.addPhotoToGeoDatabase(geoTaggedInfo theGTagInfo) in C:\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\geoTagPhotos2\geoTagPhotos2\usrFunctions.vb:line 407 So what am I doing wrong? I was using a code snippit for creating a file geodatabase and I noticed that in that example, there's an ampersand (@) before the file path. Didn't know what that was about and if I needed it while using the OpenFromFile method. Thanks! Steve ... View more