Spent part of today trying to get an event handler to work in ArcGIS. What I wanted to do was show a form, allow the user to select a button which would hide the form and then allow the user to digitise a line on the map. Double-clicking to end the line would show the form again. The aim is to develop the code in VBA.
So, after a few tries, I came up with the map event handler – but this doesn’t work as the events that you get relate to drawing on the map (see http://esri.com/news/arcuser/1005/files/eventdriven.pdf – in particular for a list of the events that can be triggered from a map and http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0404/files/productivity.pdf for how to use the map event handler).
So the solution seems to be use the Editor event handler. For some examples of how this works, see:
- http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=987&t=140048
- http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=listserve.messageShow&m=45390
Tags: ArcGIS, ESRI, Event, Event Handling
