Latest Contributions by ThomasCox

Jeremy, Thanks for your input.  I have been pulled back into ArcObjects efforts and just found my way back to Pro efforts including this forum. If I follow your code snippet, the graphic is being added to the map view.  I am interested in adding graphics (symbols and text ) to a layout.  Jeff Barrette mentioned adding graphics to a layout won't be available in 1.3 or 1.4.  I am hoping this feature will come sooner than later. Thanks again for responding. ... View more

I know this is the Pro SDK forum, but does anyone know if the Runtime supports adding elements to a layout? Thanks ... View more

Alex, Thanks for the suggestion.  We do use data driven pages for other efforts that don't require the analytic effort these applications do.  Additionally, some of this involves users graphically interacting with the map control.  Based off Jeff Barrette's response, this will eventually be part of the sdk.  However, I am not familiar with the Pro SDK release schedule, but it sounds at least a year out.  Long live AO! Thanks for your time. ... View more

Thanks Alex.  As a fellow AO vet, I appreciate your insight. We have numerous Engine and ArcMap applications that rely on the pattern of using the IGraphicsContainer interface associated with the PageLayout.  Typically, the apps perform the required analysis and then passes the results along with all of the ancillary layout information (text, text location, map, layout size, symbols etc...) to a method that adds these elements to the layout graphics container.  In fact, we have built numerous helper classes that specifically handle adding these elements to a layout graphics collection. Once the layout is 'built', it is exported to whatever format the user specifies. Here is a bit of code to illustrate: public void BuildLayout ( IMxDoc pDoc, IActiveView pActiveView, IMap pMap, string strTitle double[] dblEnvArray...) {             DeleteAllGraphElementsExceptMapFrame(pDoc);  //method that removes all graphics             pDoc.ActiveView.Refresh();             pDoc.PageLayout.Page.Orientation = Convert.ToInt16(intOrient);             pDoc.PageLayout.Page.PutCustomSize(dblCustSizeX, dblCustSizeY);             pDoc.PageLayout.RulerSettings.SmallestDivision = 1;             pDoc.PageLayout.ZoomToWhole();             pDoc.ActiveView.Refresh();             pActiveView = pDoc.ActiveView;             // testing calling routine for map to page transformation             IGraphicsContainer pGC;             pGC = (IGraphicsContainer)pDoc.PageLayout;             pGC.Reset();             IElement pElem;             pElem = pGC.Next();             IEnvelope pMapEnvelope;                    pActiveView.Refresh();             while (pElem != null)             {                 if (pElem is IMapFrame)                 {                     pMapEnvelope = pElem.Geometry.Envelope;                     pMapEnvelope.XMin = dblEnvArray[0];                     pMapEnvelope.YMin = dblEnvArray[1];                     pMapEnvelope.XMax = dblEnvArray[2];                     pMapEnvelope.YMax = dblEnvArray[3];                     pElem.Geometry = pMapEnvelope;                     IMapFrame pMapFrame = (IMapFrame)pElem;                     pMapFrame.MapScale = pMap.MapScale;                 }                 pElem = pGC.Next();             } //end while                LayoutGeneric.AddTextToLayout(pActiveView, strTitle, 1, 1.5)  //calling helper routine to add text              ......               Export to PDF.....       } public void AddTextToLayout(IActiveView pActiveView, string strTitle, double dblX, double dblY, int intFontSize) {      if(pActiveView is IPageLayout)      {             IGraphicsContainer pGraphicsContainer;             ITextElement pTextElement = new TextElementClass();;             IPageLayout pPageLayout;             ISimpleTextSymbol pTextSym;             pTextSym = new TextSymbolClass();             pPageLayout = (IPageLayout) pActiveView;             pGraphicsContainer = (IGraphicsContainer) pPageLayout;             IElement pElement;             IGroupElement pGroupElement = new GroupElementClass();             IPoint pPoint;             pPoint = new PointClass();             pPoint.PutCoords(dblX, dblY - 0.1);             pTextElement.Text = strTitle;             pTextSym.Font.Name = "Arial";             pTextSym.Size = intFontSize;             pTextSym.HorizontalAlignment = ESRI.ArcGIS.Display.esriTextHorizontalAlignment.esriTHALeft;             pTextSym.VerticalAlignment = ESRI.ArcGIS.Display.esriTextVerticalAlignment.esriTVABaseline;                 pTextSym.Font.Bold = true;             pTextElement.Symbol = pTextSym;             pElement = (IElement)pTextElement;             pElement.Geometry = (IGeometry) pPoint;             pGraphicsContainer.AddElement(pElement,0);             pActiveView.PartialRefresh(ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.esriViewDrawPhase.esriViewGraphics,null,null);              } } When looking at the Pro version of the Layout class and the LayoutProjectItem, there does not appear to be any way to add elements to the layout.  There are examples of Pro code manipulating elements already present. As we have discussed, the elements collection returned from the layout appears to be read only. Presently, in my Pro efforts, I am reading a 'layout file' (.pagx) into the Project.  This layout file only contains the layout dimensions.  I was hoping to be able to add the elements I needed to the element collection associated with this layout.  I hope I don't have to have a 'boiler plate' layout file for each type of layout I will need to produce, with all of the text and symbols present, with my code only swapping the values.  If this is the case, I am not sure how I would handle custom graphics I want to add to the layout that could not be part of the boiler plate layout file(.pagx) approach. Thanks again for your interest. ... View more

While i am quite new to the Pro Party, could it be the message being displayed is telling you to install the 1.2 version of ArcGIS Pro, then install the ArcGIS Pro SDK 1.2? ... View more

Charles, Thanks so much for the reply. I realize with the Developers Conference starting next week, you must be quite busy. As I expected, your response worked like a charm.  I had looked around the github pro site, which I think is very well done.  However, I assumed the piece I was after would be in the MapAuthoring section (https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-pro-sdk/wiki/ProSnippets-MapAuthoring) as it contains examples regarding symbolizing. I was a bit surprised that the raster rendering solution would come from the Geoprocessing module. Oh well, plenty to learn. I look forward to next weeks’ sessions. Thanks again ... View more

Thanks Dominique.  I had not looked at the LayerList Sample.  Your comment about the CanExecute method helped me see the error of my ways. Thanks again for your response. ... View more