Coordinate widget tags

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Configuration file for the Coordinate widget

The general structure of the Coordinate widget configuration file is shown by the conceptual graphic below.

The file is defined by a <configuration> tag that identifies it as a configuration file for the Viewer.

It has the following child tags:

• <outputunit> - The measurement unit to display; supported values are: geo (Geographic), dms (Degress, Minutes, Seconds), and mercator (Web mercator).
• <numberformatter> - Determines the precision formatting of the displayed coordinate values.
  • It has the following attributes:
  • decimalseparator - Represents the decimal value separator (default value is .).
  • thousandsseparator - Represents the thousands value separator (default value is .).
  • usethousandsseparator - Determines whether or not the thousands separator is used (default value is true).
  • precision - Determines the level of precision shown in the Viewer (default value is -1). More information about formatting numerical values in Adobe ActionScript is in the NumberFormatter help topic.
  • rounding - Determines if numerical values will be rounded; in other words, replaced by another value(s) that is approximately equal but has a shorter, simpler, or more explicit representation (default value is none).

• <label> - Text characteristics for the x and y coordinate values in the Viewer UI. It has the following attributes:
  • template - The text label for the x and y coordinate values.
  • color - The font color for the x and y coordinate values (default value is 0x000000 - black).
  • fontfamily - The font style for the x and y coordinate values (default style is Verdana).
  • fontsize - The font size for the x and y coordinate values (default value is 9).
  • fontweight - The font weight for the x and y coordinate values (default weight is bold).

Example configuration file:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<configuration>
    <outputunit>geo</outputunit>
    <numberformatter precision="6"/>
    <label template="Latitude:{1}   Longitude:{0}"/>
</configuration>

Test drive the Coordinate widget.