How To: Get a Text String from an Annotation Object ? [SCRIPT]

Procedure

Summary
ArcView 3.x introduced a new Annotation() class request called GetText, which returns the text string.

Procedure
The following code fragment demonstrates one way to do this.

Code:

'------ Start Script
theView = av.GetActiveDoc
theTheme = theView.GetActiveThemes.Get(0)
theFtab = theTheme.GetFtab
theBitmap = theFtab.GetSelection

for each item in theBitMap

  '--- Get the annotation object from the record number using the ReturnValue
  '--- request with the record number and the shape field.

  theAnnotationObject = theFtab.ReturnValue(theFtab.FindField("Shape"),item)

  '--- Display the text

  MsgBox.Inf(theAnnotationObject.GetText,"")

end
'------ End Of Script

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