Dynamic Charting for ArcGIS Desktop 10

Late last year ESRI’s Applications Prototype Lab released the dynamic charting tool for ArcGIS Desktop 9.2/9.3.  This tool provided the unique ability to display dynamic pie charts during editing operations.

Today, the lab released a new version of the tool for the newly launched ArcGIS Desktop 10.  The tool features a number of improvements:

• Ability to switch between a pie chart and a column chart,
• Ability to pick any summary field other than area, for example, cost or mineral volume,
• Improved performance, the charts are only updated following an editing operation such as an add or delete.  Previously updates occurred at regular time intervals.
• The legend is now sorted alphabetically,
• And mostly importantly, the user interface colors have been toned down.  :-)

The new tool can be downloaded from the ArcGIS Resource Center from this link.  The download includes full source code.  The tool is developed as a desktop AddIn and is written in C# using WPF and the WPF Toolkit.

Dynamic Charting for ArcGIS Desktop

This post describes a new sample published by ESRI’s Application Prototype Lab and inspired by Jack Dangermond geodesign presentation at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference.

Dynamic Charting for ArcGIS Desktop is a free sample (with source code) available from the ESRI code gallery.  The sample summarizes a layer’s features based on the length/area and grouped by unique values from the renderer.  The differentiating factor between this sample and the out-of-the-box charting tools is that this sample updates dynamically even in an edit session.

 

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