Latest Contributions by DougBrowning

Sorry to be a bit off topic but has Esri or anyone else thought about allowing the user to save out a number of attributes that comprise a "state" of the map.  So zoom level, layers that are on or off, layer order, changed colors of a dynamic layer, etc.  That way a user could get the map looking just the way they want then email someone a link or "map view state" file - so a hey look at this kind of thing.  It would also be really cool to be able to save the state at say 4:55 so that a user could start back where there were the next morning versus starting over. I did something similar where I used toc.includelayers = [] then added to that list as the user added maps they wanted.  Then i had a save to a txt file button that could be sent to someone else to upload into the map.  It would be great to go beyond that. I know someone could take the layers and build their own map but that is a lot more work. thanks. ... View more

Has anyone ever got a hit counter working on individual widgets and/or layers and/or map services? thanks ... View more

In the code 1 section that codes sets up a listener for ALL layers - you just want A and B so adjust accordingly. On Code 2 section I do not know how.  There is code in TOCMapLayerItem.as of setVisible(layer.visible, true);  so that may work if you are in that file.  I think there is a .visible property in the layer somewhere.  Search the forums I am sure it is on there.  Or just look through all the properties of the layer object and find it and try it.  Flex can be a lot of trial and error when you start. Like I said I am new so that is all the help I got. ... View more

That is what the show event does.  You are just setting up the event listener in the init.  Then the procedure you create is called when the event happens (in this case when the box is checked). ... View more

I set mine in the Init of a custom widget.  For you I think you could put it in either files Init section and it should get run when Flex is loading the map.  Anywhere it will get run on startup should work.  Sorry I am not that experienced at flex yet. ... View more

The code was in the last post of the thread.  Not sure what else you need.  Look at the top of the thread for the code to make a layer visible - In your case I would probably setup a Show listener on layer B and then on that event make layer A visible.  And then setup a Show listener on layer B to turn on A.  Then add 2 listeners on the Hide event (I think it is called hide) to do that same things but turn off the visible. The code is layerlist .addEventListener(FlexEvent.SHOW, mapLayerAddHandler2, false, 0, true); where mapLayerAddHandler2 is your function.  j would be the index of the A layer and B layer.  If you do not know the index you can look it up.  I have seen the code to lookup the layer index somewhere on the forum but I can not find it now. If your layers do not become visible try to add this to refresh the TOC  toc.validateNow() Hope that helps. ... View more

This thread should help you. http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/89934-LayerList-Widget-Turn-on-Sublayers?p=319435 ... View more

Just an update.  I ended up getting pretty much all that i wanted out of XMLPad Pro (it is free). ... View more

I prefer the URL method listed above but you can also use the Attachment Manger and attach the files directly into the geodatabase. ... View more

I did something similar to expand children.  If you have one child then ask it for the parent.  Then ask the parent what other children it has.  Like this  toc.dataProvider.source.children .layerInfo.name ... View more

So from the code it looks like this adds the shapefile data to Flex locally and does not send or store any data on any server correct? Has anyone ever seen a widget like this to add a Layer (or Layers) from a REST service?  We would like a way for users to add a REST data layer to our Flex app to see with our data (just like a shp file). Thanks ... View more

When I had to do this I just "cheated" and used a global var.  It was just so much easier. ... View more

Same way as the chart.  Read the data into an array then assign that array as the data provider of the tree control. ... View more

The basics are to read the data into an array in the proper format, then give that array to the chart.  Not sure what you are charting with.  Esri chart widget, Flex charting directly, or something like FusionCharts? ... View more