Feature Map issue - no transparency when highlighting

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16. Januar 2013 05:28

Hi to all

has anyone else managed to achieve having any transparency in the highlight color for a feature in a Feature Map? This is particularly an issue for polygon features.

It would appear that if you add in transparency ie FF in the following color definition #FFE1E1E1 then the Essentials manager strips it out.

There is no option to highlight the feature with only the boundary of the feature being highlighted either.

Thanks

Ralph

PS the REST Manager is also very slow to go into edit mode when wanting to adjust each Feature Map, much slower than editing other things within the REST Manager.

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  Permanently deleted user

  16. Januar 2013 05:36

  Just curious but have you tried modifying the values for highlight colors in the theme xaml file for your viewer to see if that works. It will change the highlight color for all layers but it may work if you are trying to do it site wide.

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  Permanently deleted user

  16. Januar 2013 05:53

  I use #00FFFFFF for transparent.

  Here's a snippet from a theme xmal I use that has transparent fill and different shades of red for the border, depending on whether highlighted or selected:

  <!-- BEGIN: Map Highlight Colors -->

   

    <Color x:Key="HighlightFillColor">#00FFFFFF</Color>

   

    <Color x:Key="HighlightBorderColor">#FFFF0000</Color>

   

    <Color x:Key="SelectionFillColor">#00FFFFFF</Color>

   

    <Color x:Key="SelectionBorderColor">#66FF0000</Color>

   

  <!-- END: Map Highlight Colors -->

   

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  Permanently deleted user

  16. Januar 2013 07:10

  I thought you were referring to the map itself. I could see why it does not because transparency is really not supported that well in the output format of the feature maps I would assume since I believe the map image is exported as bitmap or jpeg. The transparency for the highlight in the feature maps is probably hard coded in the application would be my guess and is not accessible as a property or at least I don't know where you can change it since they only give you a color map and don't display it as an option. 

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  Permanently deleted user

  16. Januar 2013 07:16

  Hi Nick

  thanks for confirming my view of the inability to set the transparency of the highlight markup. Especially since markup is able to have it's transparency adjusted when using the drawing tools directly.

  Regards

  Ralph

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  Permanently deleted user

  16. Januar 2013 07:24

  I agree they should expose the transparency if possible so it can be adjusted.

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  John Nerge

  1. März 2013 00:27

  I second this, and it would also be nice to have control over the highlight border color for feature maps too. 

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  David Major

  22. Februar 2014 05:59

  +1 for control over the transparency of feature map fills and outlines.

  Polygons are a particular problem as someone else notes. The fill on a polygon obscures any text/annotation or other symbols on the polygon. It also distorts the color that the polygon is supposed to be, which is confusing if that color is tied to zoning or a common sense color like park green. In those cases an outline only is the way to go.

  David

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  Permanently deleted user

  25. Februar 2014 21:47

  +1 as well. The lack of tranparency also detracts from the basemap layer, especially when the area below is open land.

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