Latest Contributions by thomasbales

Does esri have an intention on revisiting swing? I personally prefer swing to JavaFx and have never successfully fielded an application using JavaFx technology. However, I have been successful in deploying good location applications using both the 100.3 .net and the java 10.2.4 SDKs.    I have been wanting to revisit the esri JavaFx development kit but after looking through oracle's client roadmap JavaFx has been moved to open source and swing is going to be actively developed and supported at least through 2026. A long time ago, my first development revolved around using Adobe's Flash technology and for those of us old enough to remember, it fizzled out once Apache got its hands on it, which seems like this is where JavaFx is heading. So, it's nice that 10.2.4 is going to be supported for another year but it would be even sweeter if 100.X could have swing support. It is my firm belief that JavaFX will die. Any thoughts? https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/the-future-of-javafx-and-other-java-client-roadmap-updates  ... View more

I have a problem. When I use my java runtime application that accesses an AGOL hosted feature service it becomes unreachable once I use Cisco AnyConnect VPN. What is worse, is that once I disable or quit the VPN service I still don't have access to AGOL hosted services. I have to reboot my computer to get re-establish a connection Web map applications do work while Cisco is connected but runtime applications fail. Cisco AnyConnect is needed on my field machines to access unrelated files and corporate email. What gives and how do I fix this? Tom ... View more

I am able to display the device location of my surface pro as long as I have an internet connection. I would like to be able to show a GPS position using the nifty animation on the same device but the coordinates and heading would be coming from a local socket (port) from a GPS device. Is there anyway to so this. I looked at the GPS demo and the program generates a moving animation from parsing a GPS file. So this should be possible to do. I have written the code that gets the heading, late, and lon but I have no idea how to set the coordinates and pass in the location so that the program would use my data and not the data from the device. Help please. ... View more

I am interested in the JavaFX source code that was demoed at the 2017 UC. Did anyone receive the source and would be willing share it? It would be very helpful for me to use it as a reference while I re-write a runtime application with the new Quartz SDK. Thanks, Tom ... View more

I am wondering how to return the results of a result set from a query against an online feature service. The example code for FeatureLayerQuerySample.java does work for returning a single result. Of course the reason is for the if condition. However, if I change the query to query.setWhereClause("objectid < 10") ; and modify the if to a while loop, I will only get one object id when I should have multiple. Additionally, the while loop never stops. What am I missing?  while (result.iterator().hasNext()) {  // was an if statement           // get state feature and zoom to it           Feature feature = result.iterator().next();          System.out.println(feature.getAttributes().get("objectid"));    Is there a bug? I really want to start using this SDK but I am constantly running into problems. The online query in the last java release works but is somewhat cumbersome and I have a requirement to transfer some of the data of my online feature services into a database or flat file so another application can consume my GIS table data. Ref: https://developers.arcgis.com/java/latest/sample-code/feature-layer-query.htm ... View more

I am running Windows Server 2012 R2 and have had many problems with GeoEvent since I upgraded to 10.5. First, I could not update a hosted feature service and spent many hours (3 weeks) trying to troubleshoot it, however, patch 1 fixed that issue. Now, testing out notification alerts based on an idle time is not working. this same test worked in 10.4.  Is there another bug or am I missing something. My model is as follows 1) Poll a feature service every 10 seconds 2) Connect the idle detector - set on continuous with max idle of 300 sec 3) Email notification - Esri I need to know if there are more bugs in the new 10.5 version. I moved from Server for Workgroup 10.4 to Enterprise Server 10.5 so I can't go back. I am also worried that if I spend the time creating custom processors that they won't work either. Please look into this or can someone tell me what I am doing wrong. Thanks, Tom ... View more