ArcView GIS/Avenue Developer's Guide [With Disk]

by Amir H. Razavi

ArcView GIS/Avenue Developer's Guide continues to offer readers one of the most complete introductions to Avenue, the programming language of ArcView GIS. By working through the book, intermediate and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566901677
• ISBN13: 9781566901673
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: OnWord Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Perfect for both novice and expert

Doing a project with ArcView, I first discarded the idea of doing some programming in Avenue. Then I discovered this book. It really helped me to develop a simple application into a user-tailored interface. Easy and straight-forward. Don't bother with grasping the syntax, just do it! It's easy and it is fun.

Must-have reference book for Avenue programming

As you would infer from the name, this is NOT an instructional book. It consists of two parts. The first is simply a listing of the various Avenue classes. Each listing includes all of the salient features of the class (inheritance, class and instance requests and enumerations). The second part is 101 Avenue scripts. Some scripts are improvements or enhancements to the ESRI-supplied ArcView system scripts; others provide additional functionality. All are useful. I found the class hierarchy section to be the most useful because everything you need to know about a class object is in one place, including inheritances. Especially useful are the instance requests. Another nice feature of the class hierarchy section is a reference to the 101 scripts section. Page references to the script(s) which contains the object are provided. This is useful when you want to see how a particular request or instance may be used. Overall this is an excellent reference. If you are serious about Avenue programming you must have this one.