HOW TO
Note: This article pertains to ArcGIS versions 8.x. Later versions of ArcGIS may contain different functionality, as well as different names and locations for menus, commands and geoprocessing tools.
This article contains sample code that adds a field called Area to your polygon attribute table and populates it with the area for each polygon.
Note: Support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for ArcMap and ArcCatalog ended with the ArcGIS 10.2.2 release, and Esri has not included VBA compatibility setups since version 10.5. See: ArcGIS Desktop and VBA Moving Forward
Note: For more information on creating a UIControl, see the ArcGIS Desktop Help topic "Creating custom commands with VBA and UI Controls"
Dim pDoc As IMxDocument Dim pMap As IMap Set pDoc = ThisDocument Set pMap = pDoc.FocusMap '-- Get the selected layer Dim pFLayer As IFeatureLayer Set pFLayer = pDoc.SelectedLayer Dim pFc As IFeatureClass Set pFc = pFLayer.FeatureClass '-- Check to see if layer already has an area field If Not pFc.FindField("Area") = -1 Then MsgBox "Area already exists" Exit Sub End If '-- Create a field called Area Dim pField As IField Set pField = New Field Dim pFieldEdit As IFieldEdit Set pFieldEdit = pField With pFieldEdit .Name = "Area" .Type = esriFieldTypeDouble .Precision = 11 .Length = 12 .Scale = 3 End With pFc.AddField pField '-- Loop through the features and get the area Dim pFCursor As IFeatureCursor Set pFCursor = pFLayer.Search(Nothing, False) Dim pFeat As IFeature Set pFeat = pFCursor.NextFeature Do Until pFeat Is Nothing Dim pArea As IArea If pFeat.Shape.GeometryType = esriGeometryPolygon Then Set pArea = pFeat.Shape pFeat.Value(pFc.FindField("Area")) = pArea.Area pFeat.Store End If Set pFeat = pFCursor.NextFeature Loop
Note: The selected layer should not have an existing field called area
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