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Find symbols within the mil2525d specification that match a keyword.

Image of search symbol dictionary

Use case

You can use support for military symbology to allow users to report changes in the field using the correct military symbols.

How to use the sample

By default, leaving the fields blank and hitting search will find all symbols.

To search for certain symbols, enter text into one or more search boxes and click “Search for symbols”. Results are shown in a list. Pressing “Clear” will reset the search.

How it works

  1. Create a symbol dictionary with the mil2525d specification by passing the path to a .stylx file to the SymbolDictionary.createFromFile(path) constructor.
  2. Create StyleSymbolSearchParameters.
  3. Add members to the names, tags, symbolClasses, categories, and keys list fields of the search parameters.
  4. Search for symbols using the parameters with symbolDictionary.searchSymbolsAsync(styleSymbolSearchParameters).
  5. Get the Symbol from the list of returned StyleSymbolSearchResults.

Relevant API

  • StyleSymbolSearchParameters
  • StyleSymbolSearchResult
  • Symbol
  • SymbolDictionary

Additional information

This sample features the mil2525D specification. ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps supports other military symbology standards, including mil2525C and mil2525B(change 2). See the Military Symbology Styles overview on ArcGIS Solutions for Defense for more information about support for military symbology.

While developing, you can omit the path to the .stylx style file; ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps will refer to a copy installed with the SDK. For production, you should take care to deploy the proper style files and explicitly specify the path to that file when creating the symbol dictionary. See the Military Symbology Styles overview on ArcGIS Solutions for Defense for more information about support for military symbology.

Tags

CIM, defense, look up, MIL-STD-2525B, MIL-STD-2525C, MIL-STD-2525D, mil2525b, mil2525c, mil2525d, military, military symbology, search, symbology

Sample Code

module-info.java module-info.java SymbolDictionaryController.java SymbolDictionarySample.java SymbolView.java
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module com.esri.samples.symbol_dictionary {
// require ArcGIS Maps SDK for Java module
requires com.esri.arcgisruntime;
// handle SLF4J http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder
requires org.slf4j.nop;
// require JavaFX modules that the application uses
requires javafx.graphics;
requires javafx.controls;
requires javafx.fxml;
// make all @FXML annotated objects reflectively accessible to the javafx.fxml module
opens com.esri.samples.symbol_dictionary to javafx.fxml;
exports com.esri.samples.symbol_dictionary;
}