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Time Navigator for ArcGIS Explorer 500

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Author	Richie Carmichael
File Name	ESRI.ArcGIS.TimeNavigator.Setup.500.20081009.zip
Language	C#
Last Modified	Oct 9 2008
Status of work	ESRI Attribution and Licensing Agreement
Software	ArcGIS Explorer
File Size	1599.7 kb
Downloads	759
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Summary
Time Navigator is a custom task for ArcGIS Explorer build 500. Time Navigator allows users to "playback" historic data that contains timestamp. Currently only ESRI shapefiles with point geometry are supported. INSTALL: To install download the ArcScripts zip file. Unzip and double click on the msi file. The install must to run for every user on a computer that needs to use Time Navigator. The installation location on Microsoft Windows XP is: C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Application Data\ESRI\ArcGIS Explorer\Tasks \ESRI.ArcGIS.TimeNavigator_neutral_null_1.0.0.0 The installation location on Microsoft Windows Vista is: C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Roaming\ESRI\ArcGIS Explorer\Tasks \ESRI.ArcGIS.TimeNavigator_neutral_null_1.0.0.0 DEMONSTRATION VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKwnM2FJqYY BLOG: http://mrrichie.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DD16C3F34F4D913E!819.entry HISTORY: 10/09/2008 - Upgraded to ArcGIS Explorer 500 04/29/2008 - Added dropdown menu to change the refresh rate for time playback. (default refresh rate is 1,000 milliseconds or 1 second) 04/07/2008 - Ported to ArcGIS Explorer 450. - Added support for line shapefiles (only the leading point in each line is used) 12/21/2007 - Ported to ArcGIS Explorer 440. - Added support for 64-bit OS. 11/10/2007 - Added error handling for bad source geometry. 11/09/2007 - Toolbar buttons now display tooltips. - Event bitmaps are now justified correctly. - Added basic KML timeline support. - Current time display only visible when Time Navigator task is active. 11/05/2007 - Minor display optimization. - Added "Depth Test" property for Events and Groups. When depth testing is enabled, events/groups are not display if another object is between it and the observer. This is property is disabled (False) by default. - List of cultures in Load Data dialog is now sorted. - Users can now specific a custom date/time format, eg "yyyyMMdd". For more information on custom format strings visit here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.datetimeformatinfo(VS.80).aspx - Updated install to support multiple users on the same computer.