ITool.IsActive Method
Indicates if the tool is active with a user interaction.
IsActive()
Indicates if the tool is active with a user interaction.Syntax
public System.Boolean IsActive ()Return Value
True if the tool is currently in a user interaction; False otherwise.
Remarks
This method exists to make it possible to create a tool as a combination of other tools. The combined tool can pass all events to the aggregated tools, until one of them accepts the event and becomes active. The combined tool can then route all other events to that tool until it becomes inactive again. This may be used to write specific editing tools for different types of objects, and combine them into a single tool; depending on the object selected by the user, the specific tool for that object type is activated.
This method is also called by map controls so that they can ignore touch input while a normal tool, one handling mouse and keyboard input, is active. For example, to prevent someone touching a multi-touch screen from interfering with a pan operation.
If you don't have any combined tools like this in your application and if you do not use any touch tools, you can safely return False.
Platforms
Windows, Linux, Android