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ICharacterMarkerSymbol Interface (ArcObjects .NET 10.5 SDK)
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ICharacterMarkerSymbol Interface

Provides access to members that control the character marker symbol.

Product Availability

Available with ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Desktop, and ArcGIS Server.

Description

ICharacterMarkerSymbol can be used to create a marker symbol that uses a TrueType, OpenType or Postscript Type-1 font glyph. You can set the Font and CharacterIndex properties to control the font and glyph used. Use the IMarkerSymbol and ICartographicMarkerSymbol interfaces to set additional properties for ICharacterMarkerSymbols.

Members

Description
Read/write property Angle Marker symbol angle.
Read/write property CharacterIndex Character index within font.
Read/write property Color Marker symbol color.
Read/write property Font Font used for character symbol.
Read/write property Size Marker symbol size.
Read/write property XOffset Symbol X-axis offset from point location.
Read/write property YOffset Symbol Y-axis offset from point location.

Inherited Interfaces

Interfaces Description
IMarkerSymbol Provides access to members that control marker symbols.

CoClasses that implement ICharacterMarkerSymbol

CoClasses and Classes Description
CharacterMarkerSymbol A marker symbol based on a character from a font.

See Also

IMultiLayerMarkerSymbol Interface | IArrowMarkerSymbol Interface | IPictureMarkerSymbol Interface | ICharacterMarkerSymbol Interface | ICartographicMarkerSymbol Interface | IMarkerSymbol Interface

.NET Snippets

Create Character Marker Symbol | Add North Arrow

.NET Samples

Dynamic biking (Code Files: DynamicBikingCmd) | Dynamic display layer (Code Files: MyDynamicLayerClass) | GraphicTracker with the map (Code Files: GTMapForm) | Simple dynamic display application (Code Files: MyDynamicLayer) | Geoevents in a MapControl (Code Files: GeoEvents) | RSS weather layer (Code Files: RSSWeatherLayerClass) | Triangle graphic element (Code Files: TriangleElementClass) | Play back tracking data (Code Files: PlaybackDataButton)

.NET Related Topics

Getting started with dynamic display | How to connect to ArcGIS Tracking Server | How to make a character marker symbol | Implementing persistence