Styles

The Styles tab is used to specify a symbol from a list of predefined symbols or styles. The Styles tab for a point symbol shows point styles and similarl displays for line and polygon symbols. However, the Styles tab for point, line, and polygon symbols all have the same fields, buttons, and behavior.

The styles are installed with ArcPad or can be exported from ArcGIS Desktop by using the Export Styles tool included with the ArcPad Data Manager for ArcGIS Desktop. The default styles included with ArcPad are the ESRI Default styles for point and polygon symbols and the ESRI ArrowEnd, Border, Dashed, Default, and Hydrological styles for line symbols.

Initialy, the Styles tab displays the symbols using a list view. Tapping the Symbol column heading changes the Styles tab display to a grid view, which is the view used by ArcGIS Desktop.

Symbol scale

Type the scale to be used for showing the selected symbol in the symbol preview field.The symbol scale does not set the symbol reference scale but only provides a preview of how the symbol is drawn at different scales. This is useful when specifying the symbol reference scale on the Scale tab of the Symbol Properties dialog box.

The default is 100%.

Style

Choose the style to be displayed. The list of styles is determined from the styles located in the Styles folder within the ArcPad installation folder. Only point styles are shown for point symbols, line and polygon symbols are similarly displayed.

The default is *, or all the available styles for the current feature type.

Symbol Preview

Displays the current symbol definition, using the specified symbol scale. The current symbol definition does not necessarily need to match a symbol in the currently selected style(s). The symbol preview field is automatically updated when a symbol is selected from the current style(s). This is a display-only field.

Symbol

Displays the symbol as stored in the style file.

Tapping the symbol selects the symbol definition, which is saved with the layer’s symbol definition when is tapped.

Tapping the Symbol column heading changes the symbols displayed to a grid view, which is the view used by ArcGIS Desktop.

This is a display-only field.

Label

Displays the symbol label as stored in the style file. Tapping the label selects the symbol definition, which is saved with the layer’s symbol definition when is tapped. When a symbol is selected, the symbol label is not transferred or saved with the layer’s symbol definition.

Initially, the symbols are displayed in the same order as in the ArcGIS Desktop styles. Tapping the Label column heading sorts the symbols based on the symbol label. Tapping the Label column heading again sorts the symbols in reverse order.

This is a display-only field.