ArcView GIS/Avenue Developer's Guide (Paperback)

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Product Description

For the beginner through the programming expert, this new edition offers tips for the transition from Release 2 to 3. The book provides an introduction to Avenue; how to customize the ArcView interface; how to create, edit, and test scripts; how to produce hardcopy maps; how to integrate with other applications; and practical demonstrations and examples or programming code.

Product Details

• Paperback: 407 pages
• Publisher: OnWord Press; 2nd Bk&Dk edition (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566901189
• ISBN-13: 978-1566901185
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,925,051 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Probably not worth $50US, September 28, 2000

By	Craig Thomas (Washington DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Arcview Gis/Avenue Developer's Guide (Paperback)

My experience suggests that online help and the "Learning to Program with AVENUE" (LPwA) manual included with ARCVIEW software is more helpful while learning and programming with AVENUE. As a beginner, working though LPwA was more helpful than this book. My experience with AVENUE is that learning to use the online help (it includes the object model for AVENUE) is the most valuable skill an ArcView User can have.

My suggestion: work through LPwA, learn to use the online help, and spend $50US on a good Visual Basic book (or ArcObjects Developer's Guide by ESRIPress - ~$30US), because AVENUE may soon be phased out in favor of VB in coming versions of ArcView.

Good luck!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must-have reference book for Avenue programming, October 18, 1997

By	[e-mail] (Jacksonville, FL) - See all my reviews

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Needs a statement and object property index, September 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Arcview Gis/Avenue Developer's Guide (Paperback)

This book lacks something very fundamnetal : a list of avenue statements or properties. I was trying to write a simple script to turn a tables scientific name data into the proper form, but other than a brief mention of uppercasing in the first chapter no refernece was made to any of the string manipulation features.

Eventually, I found what I was looking for, in the ArcView help file, but it would have been nice to just look up a statement or object property in an index. The book does have some useful examples, but for the price I think the author should have included a list of avenue statements with a brief format and use description.