Latest Contributions by TomSellsted

Kevin, You are welcome!  Sorry again that I had forgotten about it. Regards, Tom ... View more

Apologies Kevin, I had meant to add this some time ago and had forgotten about it.  I have added it to the dropdown list for distances and verified that the measure widget works with WAB 1.3. Regards, Tom ... View more

Courtney, Yes!  That did the trick.  Thanks very much! Regards, Tom ... View more

Adam, The problem with modifying the other shape types is that in an edit context, it makes you modify the shape by moving vertex points.  For a circle or an ellipse you would have dozens of vertex points and moving any one of them would corrupt the image shape.  The calculations for the shape would also be invalid. Here is an example: The same would be true for all of the other geometry types.  If you want to experiment with this you can modify line 214 to true.  You may need to flush your browser cache and refresh the page. I am not sure that I am understanding your question about the changing of text/label.  When you have selected a shape to edit, you can modify the labels, color and size while it is selected.  This shouldn't modify any other measurements you have drawn.  Only the associated labels of the selected shape for editing.  Regards, Tom ... View more

Kevin, Thanks very much for your quick response.  I appreciate it very much! I can look at editing freehand polylines and polygons.  The measurements are just summaries.  I did look at it initially, but I thought the user might be a bit overwhelmed by the amount of vertices for those geometries. I too have just been using the coordinate widget.  It is the right context for finding point coordinates.  Using Measure seems out of context for placing latitudes and longitude.  It might be best to modify the coordinate widget to draw a point with coordinates on the map. Regards, Tom ... View more

Adam Gebhart​ Kevin MacLeod​ Rebecca Strauch, GISP​ Good news!  I have added editing capability to the Measure widget.  The new functionality allows you to like on a drawn graphic which turns on editing mode. While in editing mode you can change just about everything about the drawn graphic.  You can drag each vertex to a new location and even drag the split vertex and create new segments with associated measures.  In addition you can alter the color, width and transparency of the graphic.  You can also change the text size and color while the graphic is in edit mode too.  A CTRL-click on a drawn graphic will delete it. Some bad news.  This only really works well with line and polygon geometries.  The other geometries (freehand polyline, triangle, rectangle, circle, ellipse and freehand polygon) would turn on many vertices in edit mode and the context of the measurement would be lost.  It just doesn't make sense to me to edit them.  I would appreciate any ideas you have on this topic. Internet Explorer...  When turning a graphic into edit mode on IE, the event for tracking mouse movements is disabled.  This means I have no way to calculate where a vertex is being moved and interactively display measurements.  I had backtracked and hoped that one of the other objects would contain the editing geometry that I could use to calculate measurements, but I was unable to find this at this point.  I can completely disable editing on IE and probably should, because it makes a bit of a mess. I have also added a Help button that will open a new web page and give a brief description of how to use the widget.  It would be ideal if all widgets had a help button of some sort and a standard way of displaying help for the user. I have placed a sample widget on our GIS server and would like you to do some preliminary testing.  If you could try it out and give me some feedback, I would really appreciate it. http://gis.yakimawa.gov/WAB/V1.2/widgets/Measure/Measure.zip Thanks very much! Regards, Tom ... View more

Rebecca, Excellent idea!  I will put some documentation together for using the widget. Regards, Tom ... View more

Daniel, Excellent!  Glad that it is working properly for you! Regards, Tom ... View more

Daniel, I have posted an update to fix the problem with IE.  The problem was a result of an API update: NIM094815. The API update made the mouse-drag event work correctly.  Previously IE10 & IE11 used the mouse-move, which is what my code was expecting.  The measure widget should function properly now in IE. Regards, Tom ... View more

Daniel, Interesting.  It appears that the event trigger that was set for a mouse-move is now a mouse-drag like all of the other browsers.  I will update the code and post an update. Regards, Tom ... View more

Daniel, This was working for IE.  It looks like Polylines and Polygons are providing measurements as expected, but all other geometry types are not tracking (again...) in IE.  IE uses some different event triggers than the other browsers, or at least they used to.  I will have a look and see what might be going on. Regards, Tom ... View more

Finbar, I have done some looking and I haven't found anything in the API that will allow a trace.  You can use snapping by holding down the Control key.  Be aware that you can only snap to feature layers.  As you hold down the control key and draw measure lines, crosshairs will appear over the feature layer vertexes.  Click the crosshair location to get the segment measure. Regards, Tom ... View more

Adam & Kevin, Sorry for the late reply on this request.  I have been sidetracked by a few other issues. I am looking into adding editing functionality.  There are definitely some challenges to getting this to work and making it easy/intuitive for the user.  I will let you know how things are going. Regards, Tom ... View more

Dan, You are welcome! I suspect the eDraw widget was using similar logic and that is why you are seeing the same error using it for measuring. Regards, Tom ... View more