Hi, my company has finally made the switch from version 4.6 to 4.8 and everything seems to be working just fine but I was wondering if there was any prebuilt properties forms similar to the DotSpatial controls to view and edit layers in a legend? I know that I can get the properties myself but I didn't want to "reinvent the wheel" if it has already been done. I know in the SVN source there is a LegendEditor source code and we were actually using it with our 4.6 version of the OCX but for some reason I was thinking there was an updated version. I've also looked into the "mwSymbology" plugin but I'm pretty sure this is just for DotSpatial. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

The legend editor has been updated a bit so you can use that one.
mwSymbology is for MapWindow4 not for DotSpatial so you can use that as well.

I would recommend not to create a custom application but create a plug-in. That will give you all the benefits of MW4.8.6

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I really appreciate your response. Is there any reason that my legend, when you double click it, it doesn't show the layer's properties? I was looking into mwSymbology and I think this would be great for our particular program but to be honest I don't know how to implement it. It requires an IMapWin interface as a parameter but we are working with an Axmap. I'm not sure how to cast from an Axmap to IMapWin. Thanks again for you help in our problem.

IMapWin interface is for plug-ins, so it is not easy to use it.
mwSymbology has the new layer properties form.

That's why I recommend creating a plug-in instead.

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I'm really not trying to be a pest, but when you say to create a plug-in, I'm a little confused. Do I need to create a separate project to create a plug-in to use in my main project or is there a way to implement mwSymbology as a plugin from within my own program.

When I mean you should create a plug-in I mean to create a plug-in for MapWindow Desktop not for your own custom application that just uses the ocx (MapWinGIS).

You create a plug-in that will do the same as your custom application does, but with all the benefits of the latest version of MapWindow. If you have set-up your source code nicely this isn't too much work.
A template plug-in can be found here: [svn.mapwindow.org]

If you look at the source code of mwSymbology you should be able to find some entry points to use the code in your custom application. But remember this plug-in wasn't designed to do so.

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Ok I appreciate the advice. Say I decide to use the built in Legend Editor that you were mentioning earlier. With the current legend control, you should be able to double click a layer and the legend editor should just appear, correct? Or am I missing something?

Thanks!

Does anyone have any idea as to why it doesn't work for me? I've created a test form on our program, added the legend and connected it with an axmap, then loaded a shapefile into the legend. When I double click the layer on the legend, nothing comes up as far as properties. Thanks for any help.

If its a separate control more than likely u have to instantiate it yourself. I'm interested in the control so I'll take a look tomorrow.

Awesome, well I appreciate it.