Display Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds in ArcView's status bar

Summary

Instructions provide a sample Avenue code to display Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds values in ArcView's status bar when moving the cursor around in the view. The vector data in the view must be stored in a geographic coordinate system. The View Properties Projection setting can be a projected coordinate system or a geographic coordinate system.

Procedure

1. Open a new script window.
   
   
   A. Activate the Project window.
   B. Click the Scripts icon.
   C. Click New.
   
   
2. Copy the following code into the new script window.
   

   Code:
   
   ' Display Degree-Minutes-Seconds 
   ' 
   ' attach this script to a tool apply property' 
   theView = av.Getactivedoc 
   p = theView.GetDisplay.ReturnUserPoint 
   if ((theview.getprojection.asstring = "").not) then 
   p = p.returnUnprojected(theview.getprojection) 
   end 
   x = p.GetX 
   y = p.GetY 
   xdeg = x.truncate 
   x2 = (x - xdeg).abs 
   xm = x2*(60) 
   xmin = xm.truncate.setformat("dd.") 
   xs = xm - xmin 
   xsec = (xs*(60)).setformat("dd.dd") 
   ydeg = y.truncate 
   y2 = (y - ydeg).abs 
   ym = y2*(60) 
   ymin = ym.truncate.setformat("dd.") 
   ys = ym - ymin 
   ysec = (ys*(60)).setformat("dd.dd") 
   lat = xdeg.asstring+" "+xmin.asstring+"' "+xsec.asstring+"''" 
   lon = ydeg.asstring+" "+ymin.asstring+"' "+ysec.asstring+"''" 
   msg = ("Position = "+lon+", "+lat) 
   av.ShowMsg(msg) 
   System.RefreshWindows 
   av.DelayedRun(script.the.getname, nil, 0.5) 
   

   
   
3. Click the compile button.
   
   
4. With the Project Window active, open the Customize dialog box by going to Project > Customize.
5. Set the Type to View and the Category to Tool.
6. Click the Tool button to create a new tool.
7. With the new tool selected, double-click to the right of 'Apply' to bring up the Script Manager.
8. Browse through the Script Manager and select the name of the script created in Step #1.
9. Close the Customize dialog box and there is a new tool on the View GUI associated with this script.
   
   

   Note:
   Click the new tool and pan the View to display the Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds values in ArcView's status bar.