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07/31/2012

Get Character while Pressing Shift Key using JavaScript

By Daniel Du

I am asked how to get the character using JavaScript when pressing Shift key, String.fromCharCode() does not take into account the shift modifier, you can only get the number “5” but actually you want to get the special character “%".

This is much be a very common request for web developers like developers working on AIMS, and I searched a little and find this page is very helpful. One customer argues that it does not work for Safari, I did a test, it does work for Safari and other browsers, including Firefox, Chrome and IE.

Here is my test code:

<html>

<head>

<title >mapKeyPressToActualCharacter test</title>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

    function onKeyPress() {

 

        var e = window.event || e;

        var keyCode = e.keyCode;

 

        if (keyCode == 8) {

            this.criteria.value = this.criteria.value.substring(

                    0, this.criteria.value.length - 1);

        }

        else {

            this.criteria.value

                += mapKeyPressToActualCharacter(event.shiftKey, keyCode);

        }

 

    }

 

    function mapKeyPressToActualCharacter(isShiftKey, characterCode) {

        if (characterCode === 27

            || characterCode === 8

            || characterCode === 9

            || characterCode === 20

            || characterCode === 16

            || characterCode === 17

            || characterCode === 91

            || characterCode === 13

            || characterCode === 92

            || characterCode === 18) {

            return false;

        }

        if (typeof isShiftKey != "boolean" || typeof characterCode != "number") {

            return false;

        }

        var characterMap = [];

        characterMap[192] = "~";

        characterMap[49] = "!";

        characterMap[50] = "@";

        characterMap[51] = "#";

        characterMap[52] = "$";

        characterMap[53] = "%";

        characterMap[54] = "^";

        characterMap[55] = "&";

        characterMap[56] = "*";

        characterMap[57] = "(";

        characterMap[48] = ")";

        characterMap[109] = "_";

        characterMap[107] = "+";

        characterMap[219] = "{";

        characterMap[221] = "}";

        characterMap[220] = "|";

        characterMap[59] = ":";

        characterMap[222] = "\"";

        characterMap[188] = "<";

        characterMap[190] = ">";

        characterMap[191] = "?";

        characterMap[32] = " ";

        var character = "";

        if (isShiftKey) {

            if (characterCode >= 65 && characterCode <= 90) {

                character = String.fromCharCode(characterCode);

            } else {

                character = characterMap[characterCode];

            }

        } else {

            if (characterCode >= 65 && characterCode <= 90) {

                character = String.fromCharCode(characterCode).toLowerCase();

            } else {

                character = String.fromCharCode(characterCode);

            }

        }

        return character;

    }

 

</script>

 

</head>

<body>

    <input name="test" type="text" onkeypress="onKeyPress();"/>

</body>

</html>

 

And here is my test result:

TestResult

 

Hope this helps.

Posted at 10:30 PM in AIMS 2012, AIMS 2013, Daniel Du, MapGuide Enterprise 2011, Web | | Comments (0)

Installing Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server 2013 step by step on Windows Server 2008

By Daniel Du

A few months ago, I blogged an post about “Install Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server 2013 step by step” on Windows 7, and someone argues that Windows 7 is not officially supported OS for AIMS. Yes, he is right, so in this post, I will show you how to install AIMS 2013 in Windows Server 2008.

 

Before Installation

Before you start, please read the “Installation Help”,"System Requirement" and "ReadMe" first. Documentation is accessible from links at the lower left corner of the installer:

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Ensure that your user name has Administrator permissions to install applications on the computer or network.

AIMS 2013 supports both Windows and Linux. Since you come across this blog, you are probably using Windows. For the Infrastructure Map Server Extension, you can use both PHP and .NET on Windows, but if you are going to use Infrastructure Application Extension, .NET is the only option.  Here is a table about development language and web server extension configuration.

Language    OS                   Web Server Extension

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

.net            Windows          IIS Configuration with .net

php            Windows          IIS Configuration with php

php            Linux                Apache with php

Java          Windows           Apache/Tomcat with Java

Java           Linux                Apache/Tomcat with Java

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In this post, I will use Windows(IIS) + .NET configuration.

Firstly, please add “Web Server(IIS)” role in Server Manager if you have not done that, make sure all Application Development role services are installed:

image

 

Start Installation

Now let’s begin, you will see this screen after the setup is launched, please do take some time reading the Installation Help, System Requirement and Readme. Click “Install” to continue.

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Read and accept the license agreement:

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Input your serial number and product key if you have one, otherwise you can select the first option to try this product for 30 days.

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Caution! Do not go too fast in this page. You need to click each item to open the configuration page, otherwise it will install with default configuration.


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Click “Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server 2013” to open the server configuration page as below. You can install Map Server and Web Extension on same machine or separate machines.

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For “Autodesk Infrastructure Web Server Extension 2013”, as discussed earlier, I am going to use IIS Configuration with .NET Development Environment:

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You can install “Autodesk Infrastructure Studio 2013” in next page. In this case, I will skep Infrastructure Studio as I am planning to author my map data from another client PC, not from the Server itself.  You can also install “Autodesk Infrastructure Application Extension 2013” and “Autodesk Infrastructure Administrator 2013” if you are going to use industry model.

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Now it is all set, you can sit back to have a cup of coffee now.

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A few minutes latter, the product will be installed successfully.

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License Activation

Unlike other Autodesk products, Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server 2013 does not start the activation process when you launch the program for the first time. You must manually activate Infrastructure Map Server by clicking Start ac.menuaro Programs (or All Programs) ac.menuaro[1] Autodesk ac.menuaro[2] Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server 2013 ac.menuaro[3] Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server 2013 Licensing Activator.

The Autodesk Licensing wizard is started where you can follow the on-screen instructions to activate your Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server 2013 license.

 

Verifying the Configuration

You can run some simple tests to ensure that the Map Agent and Web Server Extensions are configured properly.

Testing the Map Agent

Ensure that the Infrastructure Map Server is running. The installer configures Infrastructure Map Server as a service. Open Services Management Console by typing “Services.msc” in Start—>Run, check that the service status is Started.

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Open a web browser and go to the following URL. If the Web Server Extensions are not running on your local machine, replace localhost with the name or IP address of your server.

http://localhost/mapserver2013/mapagent/index.html(IIS)

Click one test method, for example, “Features” in Service API, then “GetFeatureProviders”, it will get all register FDO providers. Enter Administrator for the user id and admin for the password. Both are case-sensitive.

If the Map Agent is running properly, you will get an XML document describing the resources in the repository.

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Testing the Site Administrator

Ensure that the Map Server is running. Open a web browser and go to the following URL.

http://localhost/mapserver2013/mapadmin/login.php(IIS)

Enter Administrator for the user id and admin for the password. Both are case-sensitive.

If the Site Administrator is configured properly, you will get a Manage Servers page which lists all the servers configured in the Map Server Site.

image

 

Common Errors/Problems:

This part is same as “Install Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server 2013 step by step”, here is a screen-shot of IIS setting which works fine for me:

image

 

Publish Map to Map Server from Map 3D

It is possible to publish maps, including native DWG files to Infrastructure Map Server from Map 3D very easily, just open the map in Map 3D, and select “Publish to Infrastructure Map Server…” in Maps menu.

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Specify the site of Map Server 2013:

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Here is notification saying that I have successfully published 1 DWG and some other data.

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Connect to Map Server from Infrastructure Studio 2013

I did not install Infrastructure Studio on Windows Server 2008, as I an going to do the authoring work from my laptop. Now I can connect to the Map Server from Infrastructure Studio 2013, which is installed separately. From Infrastructure Studio, I can see the data which I just published from Map 3D:

image

 

And here is the screen-shot of map in browser:

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Posted at 02:50 AM in AIMS 2013, Daniel Du | | Comments (0)

07/27/2012

Verify if a FDO feature attribute is 'empty' using Map 3D API

By Partha Sarkar

In the screenshot below, we can see the Name attribute of two features are Empty. In my FDO data set I have hundreds of thousands of features and I would like to find out if any attribute is empty (i.e. there is no Value) for selected features in Map 3D using API.

FDO_1

 

 

Here is a relevant C# code snippet in Map 3D which will check if the “Name” attribute of any selected Feature is Empty and if it is Empty, it will show the Feature ID and a message that “Name Attribute is Empty “ at the Map 3D command Line.

 

AcMapMap currentMap = AcMapMap.GetCurrentMap();

MgLayerCollection layers = currentMap.GetLayers();

 

PromptSelectionResult selResult = ed.GetSelection();

if (selResult.Status == PromptStatus.OK)

{

  SelectionSet selSet = selResult.Value;

  MgSelectionBase selectionBase = AcMapFeatureEntityService.GetSelection(selSet);

 

  //Ensure user selected a feature

  MgLayerBase myLayer = null;

  foreach (MgLayerBase layer in selectionBase.GetLayers())

  {

    if (layer.Name == "API_Poly_Objects")   // change to your own layer name

    {

      myLayer = layer;

      break;

    }

  }

  if (myLayer == null)

  {

    ed.WriteMessage("No Feature is selected from the designated Layer ! ");

    return;

  }

 

  //get the properties

  MgFeatureReader reader = selectionBase.GetSelectedFeatures(myLayer, myLayer.FeatureClassName, false);

  try

  {

    while (reader.ReadNext())

    {

      string featureName = reader.GetString("Name");  // this this just a demo, change this according to your data field

      if (featureName == "")

      {

        Int32 FeatureID = reader.GetInt32("ID");  // this this just a demo, change this according to your data field

        ed.WriteMessage("\n Feature ID :" + FeatureID.ToString() + " Name Attribute is Empty ");

      }

    }

  }

  finally

  {

    reader.Close();

  }

}

 

FDO_2

Hope this is useful to you!

 

Posted at 06:57 AM in .NET, AutoCAD Map 3D 2011, AutoCAD Map 3D 2012, AutoCAD Map 3D 2013, Partha Sarkar | | Comments (0)

How do we set the FDO feature attribute value to NULL using Map 3D API ?

By Partha Sarkar

In AutoCAD Map 3D UI, when we open the "Data Table" corresponding to a FDO feature layer and delete an attribute value for a FDO feature, it is set to <Null> as shown in the screenshot below.

 

FDO_Set_Null_01

 

 

Using the Map 3D Platform API  SetNull(bIsNull As Boolean) we can  achieve the same.

Here is a relevant code snippet :

 

' Create a new Property colleaction Object

Dim propColl As MgPropertyCollection = New MgPropertyCollection()

 

' Here the Length Prop is specific to a Data Set

Dim lengthProp As MgDoubleProperty = New MgDoubleProperty("Length", Nothing)

 

' To set the attribute value to <Null> we need to use the following method

lengthProp.SetNull(True)

 

'Add the length property to property collection

propColl.Add(lengthProp)

 

' Define a filter to get the object whose property we want to update

'' Feature ID = 10 is specific a FDO data set

Dim filterText As String = "ID=10"

 

'Create the UpdateFeatures object for the update

Dim updateFeatures As MgUpdateFeatures = New MgUpdateFeatures(layer.FeatureClassName, propColl, filterText)

 

' Create a command collection for the update

Dim commands As MgFeatureCommandCollection = New MgFeatureCommandCollection()

commands.Add(updateFeatures)

 

' Commit the Update

fs.UpdateFeatures(resId, commands, True)

layer.ForceRefresh()

 

FDO_Set_Null_02

 

Hope this is useful to you!

 

Posted at 02:43 AM in .NET, AutoCAD Map 3D 2011, AutoCAD Map 3D 2012, AutoCAD Map 3D 2013, Partha Sarkar | | Comments (0)

07/26/2012

Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server 2013 –New Features & API Recording

By Daniel Du

We completed the recording of new features and APIs of AIMS 2013. We are not hosting a separate "Live Q & A" session on AIMS 2013 API; you can use the comment section here to ask your question on AIMS 2013 API, alternatively you can use Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise Developer discussion forum to post your question. Those who have access to Partner Center, please use the same to ask your question and we will respond to that.

Here is the link to download :  AIMS 2013 New Features & APIs recording.

Posted at 06:50 AM in AIMS 2013, Daniel Du | | Comments (0)

Localization of Ajax viewer of MapGuide Enterprise/AIMS

By Daniel Du

Many developers are trying to localize viewer of MapGuide or AIMS to make it more user-friendly. Here are the basic steps to localize MapGuide Enterprise, This blog is based on MapGuide Enterprise 2011, it applies to AIMS as well with minor changes.

1. Prepare the resource file, which locates at C:\Program Files\Autodesk\MapGuideEnterprise2011\WebServerExtensions\www\localized by default.

2. Copy the file en to a new one named as zh for Chinese, fr for France, for example. Put it into the same directory. Please be note that this is NO extension for this file.

3. Open the copied resource file and translate the message into local language.

4. Save the file, please save it using Unicode if needed, especially for East Asian language.

5. Pass the locale parameter to the Ajax viewer.

<frameset rows="0,*" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame />
<frame src="/mapguide2011/mapviewernet/ajaxviewer.aspx?SESSION=<%= sessionId %>&WEBLAYOUT=<%= webLayout %>&Locale=zh" name="ViewerFrame" />
</frameset>

6. For these build-in commands, it can be localized by substitute the built-in commands by “Add –> Built-In Command” and localizing the display name and tooltip in MapGuide Studio.

Add Build-in Commands in MapGuide Studio

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Localize display name and tooltip

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That's it, now your interface is localized!

Posted at 12:18 AM in AIMS 2012, AIMS 2013, Daniel Du, MapGuide Enterprise 2011 | | Comments (0)

07/23/2012

Setting coordinate system for map using .net API

By Daniel Du

Issue

Using GetMapSRS() API we can get the coordinate system of map, but I am not finding any API to assign a coordinate system to the AcMapMap object. Am I missing something or is it not allowed to assign a CS to AcMapMap ?

Solution

There is no API to set a coordinate system using AcMapMap.  The only way you can set the coordinate system is via ProjectModel. The GetSRS method on AcMapMap only reflects what’s set on the map project.

using System;

using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime;

using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices;

using Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices;

using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Geometry;

using Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput;

using Autodesk.Gis.Map.Platform;

using OSGeo.MapGuide;

 

// This line is not mandatory, but improves loading performances

[assembly: CommandClass(typeof(SetMapSRS.MyCommands))]

 

namespace SetMapSRS

{

 

  // This class is instantiated by AutoCAD for each document when

  // a command is called by the user the first time in the context

  // of a given document. In other words, non static data in this class

  // is implicitly per-document!

  public class MyCommands

  {

    [CommandMethod("SetMapCoordinateSystem")]

    public void SetMapCoordinateSystem()

    {

      //the parameter is coordinate system code

      SetMapSRS("CA-I");

 

      //checking

      string wkt = AcMapMap.GetCurrentMap().GetMapSRS();

      Editor ed = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application

        .DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Editor;

      MgCoordinateSystemFactory coordSysFac = new MgCoordinateSystemFactory();

      string code = coordSysFac.ConvertWktToCoordinateSystemCode(wkt);

      ed.WriteMessage("\n MapSRS is Changed to: " + code + "\n");

 

 

    }

 

    public void SetMapSRS(string srsCode)

    {

      Autodesk.Gis.Map.MapApplication mapApp = Autodesk.Gis.Map

        .HostMapApplicationServices.Application;

      Autodesk.Gis.Map.Project.ProjectModel projModel = mapApp.ActiveProject;

 

      projModel.Projection = srsCode;

    }

 

  }

 

}

 

Hope this helps.

Posted at 03:25 AM in AutoCAD Map 3D 2011, AutoCAD Map 3D 2012, AutoCAD Map 3D 2013, Daniel Du | | Comments (1)

AutoCAD Map 3D 2013 - API Recording

By Partha Sarkar

We are in the process of recording a DevTV on "AutoCAD Map 3D 2013 - new Features and API" which we are going to upload this week. We are not hosting a separate "Live Q & A" session on Map 3D API; you can use the comment section here to ask your question on Map 3D 2013 API, alternatively you can use Map 3D Developer discussion Forum to post your question. Those who have access to Partner Center, please use the same to ask your question and we will respond to that.

 

Here is the link to download :  AutoCAD Map 3D 2013 API Webcast Recording

 

Thanks,

Partha Sarkar

 

Posted at 01:13 AM in .NET, AutoCAD Map 3D 2013, Events, Partha Sarkar | | Comments (0)

07/20/2012

AutoCAD Map 3D 2013 API Changes

By Partha Sarkar

In Map 3D 2012 release, we have seen the beginning of the merger of Topobase functionalities within Map 3D. In 2013, I see a big milestone achieved in that direction which influenced lots of API changes within Map and Topobase assemblies. Lots of API functions are renamed to reflect a generic name to be relevant for extended Industry Data Model support in Map 3D 2013. Some of the APIs have become obsolete, however, you would find a replaced API for the same or there is a particular reason for that API to become obsolete in Map 3D 2013.

AutoCAD Map 3D Wikihelp (I have shared the link below) has a complete list of the API Changes in Map 3D 2013.

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/AutoCAD_Map_3D/enu/2013/Help/0000-AutoCAD_0/0001-About_th1/0004-Updated_4/0008-API_Chan8

Posted at 01:42 AM in .NET, AutoCAD Map 3D 2013, Partha Sarkar | | Comments (0)

07/19/2012

Renamed executable files in AutoCAD Map 3D 2013

By Partha Sarkar

Some of the executable (*.exe files) which had a prefix Topobase / TB in Map 3D 2012 or earlier release have been renamed in AutoCAD Map 3D 2013, e.g. TBBatch.exe is renamed to IMBatch.exe in Map 3D 2013. 

Here is the Map 3D wikihelp link that lists the renamed executable files in Map 3D 2013 : 

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/AutoCAD_Map_3D/enu/2013/Help/0000-AutoCAD_0/0001-About_th1/0004-Updated_4/0005-Renamed_5

 

Posted at 01:52 AM in .NET, AutoCAD Map 3D 2013, Partha Sarkar | | Comments (0)

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