Latest Contributions by AdrianMarsden

Ben - many thanks for your floating pane style and code.  I have used to to demonstrate on another forum my "all results, all fields from ID in one pane" thingy.  SO much better than a dialog. Cheers ACM ... View more

OK - I've don a hack and slash on my code, to only do the "every result, every field in one floating pane" It is here - using esri data and a VERY big click tolerance to ensure lots of results. The attached CSS is my ENTIRE project CSS, so lots of stuff not required. Many, many thanks to Ben Fousek who posted the way of getting floating panes looking like dialogs. Obviously as I am using the Esri samples there are many more fields than you'd want to expose, but it shows what can be done. I also use the layer description field to embed feature level hyper links, but that's another story..... Cheers ACM ... View more

UP to recently all was fine in IE 8 for us, mainly because we use Google Chrome Frame to get IE to run everything in Chrome.  However we have a few PCs that don't have this installed.  For them, IE8 simply fails affter a few map operations. It was fine until recently - anyone any hints on how to track down whatever it is I have added IE doesn't like? Cheers ACM PS - I found what was killing IE 8/9 - I'd added a snapping layer that was our fine detailed basemaps.  When zoomed in to a level these switched on AND in an urban area, IE just couldn't cope with that amount of vector data getting sent locally (I guess) I rural areas, without so many features it could cope. ... View more

Yep, that's right, only fields in the MXD will get exposed - plus they will have any aliases you set in ArcMap as well.  ArcServer gets a bit stressed if you don't expose the shape filed and always leave OBJECTID 9or whatever your unique key is) but otherwise hide anything that you don't think will be used. If I have time I'll package my "everything in one floating pane" code up with an Esri example some time. ACM ... View more

I don't use the popup thingy at all  - I redirect all to a floating pane and then go through each found layer, and each result in the layer to produce something like the attached - basically replicating what we had in ArcIMS 🙂 [ATTACH=CONFIG]23880[/ATTACH] So it is important to only expose the fields you want to see in the ArcMap MXD.  By using the layer description I have also manage a feature specific hyperlink (again like ArcIMS) Shout if you want to see the code ACM ... View more

Thanks - although on the sample given I can't see any reference - there isn't a "require" part.  from the API notes I thought you'd need a "dojo.require("esri.dijit.Attribution");" then create it with var attribution = new esri.dijit.Attribution({  map: map }, "attributionDiv"); And then, have a div somewhere with that ID. So, even more confused now. Also, is it clever enough, if two layers have the same attribution not to repeat itself? Cheers ACM ... View more

Nope the Attribution Widget - added at 3.1 http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/jshelp/new_v31.html ... View more

Yep, that's them 0 you will not regret it - the first few seconds are important to user perception, and if they have to wait 10 seconds before they see anything, they'll already be getting grumpy. ... View more

No, there are instructions in the download  you need to edit a js file, then reference it slightly differently, but it is all in the installation notes and I did it without any problems ... View more

Hi I have just asked a similar question (sorry, failed to find this thread) My users are used to being able to right click to simply copy the image.  True we can (as we are on 10.1) use a print task, but that is quite intensive and time consuming, simply copying the image the browser has already is almost instantaneous. Cheers ACM ... View more

Sorry - my search didn't find this recent thread http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/83306-Save-map-with-graphics-as-image-file?highlight=click So no answers here please - I'll add my comment to that one. ... View more

Load speed - simple as that - take a look at the two images from Google Chrome showing load times for various stuff with load times (not the same files, alas, but should give you the idea) When we used the esri hosted API, there would be a 5-15 second delay while the client contacted Esri servers to check that the cached version it had was still valid.  For local hosted this is less than 1 second Also, there were times when the esri servers simply timed out, leaving our users unable to work. Cheers ACM ... View more