Maintain attribute indexes when pasting a theme to a new view

Summary

When you paste a theme to a new view, Spatial and Geocoding indexes are maintained, but attribute indexes are not. If you want the paste operation to maintain the attribute indexes, you need to make a slight modification to the 'View.Paste' system script. This article shows you the change you need to make to this script.

Procedure

1. Open a new script window.
   
   
   A. Activate the Project window.
   B. Click the Scripts icon.
   C. Click New.
   
   
2. Load the system script View.Paste.
3. Find the line:
   
   

   Code:
   theView.Paste 

   
   
4. Add the following after the above line:
   
   

   Code:
   for each aTheme in theView.GetActiveThemes
     if(aTheme.is(FTheme)) then
       aTheme.GetFtab.Refresh
     end
   end 

   
   
   

   Note:
   For more information about making modifications to the default GUI, see ArcView Help > Customizing and programming ArcView with Avenue > Customizing ArcView.

   
   
5. Click the Compile button.
   
   
6. Save the script as View.Paste.
   
   
   A. Select Properties from the Script menu.
   B. Type in a new name in the Name field.
   C. Click OK.