'INTERACTIVELY ZOOMS TO A SELECTED FEATURE BASED ON A FEATURE-ATTRIBUTE SEARCH

'LOADING SCRIPTS
' 1. Double-click on an empty area on the bar containing all buttons, The "Customize" dialog appears
' 2. In the "Type" pull-down, select "View"
' 3. In the "Category" pull-down, select "Buttons", The display right below the pull down changes to show an array of buttons
' 4. Slide the scrollbar (below the button display) to the right and select the last button by clicking on it, Now click on "New"
' 5. A new blank button appears. Double-click on the blank area to the right of the entry "Click" (just below the button display)
' 6. The "Script Manager" Dialog appears, Click on "New", Enter any name in the input box that appears (prefix it with "Z_" so that it goes in the last)
' 7. A new blank script document (With the name just specified) appears. Delete whatever is on it...
' 8. Either copy-paste this ENTIRE script on the document, or, click on the button with the open-folder icon (tooltip reads "Load text file") and navigate to this file
' 9. Either done, click on the button with the tick-mark icon ("compile"). If spatial analyst is not loaded, there will be some error message, Load it
' 10. After the script is compiled (the tick-mark buton should be grayed out), close the script window and return to the view
' 11. Click on the new button to run the script

theView = av.GetActiveDoc

TheTheme=TheView.GetActiveThemes.Get(0)
TheFtab=TheTheme.GetFtab

TheFields=TheFtab.GetFields

TheField=msgbox.choice(TheFields,"Select field from which to select from","Specify Field")

TheEntries={}
for each rec in TheFtab
  v=TheFtab.ReturnValue(TheField,rec)
  TheEntries.Add(v)
end
TheEntries.RemoveDuplicates

SearchStr=msgbox.ChoiceAsString(TheEntries,"Select Feature to Zoom To", "Select Feature")

theBitmap = theFTab.GetSelection

' build a query string
'SearchStr = MsgBox.Input("Enter the feature name to select and zoom", "Query", "") 
theQuery = "["+TheField.GetName+"]=" + SearchStr.Quote

' query and apply selection 
theFTab.Query(theQuery, theBitmap, #VTAB_SELTYPE_NEW) 
theFTab.UpdateSelection

av.GetProject.SetModified(true)

r = Rect.MakeEmpty

r = r.UnionWith(TheTheme.GetSelectedExtent)

if ( r.ReturnSize = (0@0) ) then
  theView.GetDisplay.PanTo(r.ReturnOrigin)
else
  theView.GetDisplay.SetExtent(r.Scale(1.1))
end

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