Public Domain extensions for ArcView GIS reviewed by Klaus Jacobi

List of useful public domain extensions for ArcView 3.x
Formatting, Legends and TOC (table of contents)

Extension	Brief Description	Documentation	Author	encrypted?	Requires	Relevance	Stability	Appearance	User Friendliness
AID	Create customized libraries of ArcView objects - restore objects from old projects and memorize their definition	EasyArcV.pdf	Giancarlo Anderle	partly	Dialog designer		does not work with grids		required initial hardcoding of the the "userext"
Show/Hide Selected	Hides unselected records of a theme		?	no	none
TOC Theme Shuffle	Moves an active theme to the top or bottom of the table of contents		Brian J. Torreano	no	none
Labeling	Contains tools for labeling and adding text to views and layouts		ESRI	no	none				generated text box slightly too narrow
Hot Potato	HotPotato Hotlinks provides the ability to have multiple hotlinks of different types for multiple shapes	HotPotato.pdf	Kenneth R. McVay	no	Cad reader, Jpeg image support
Overview Utility	Allows you to create overviews. You can add this functionality to one or more DocGUIs for views	overview.txt	ESRI	no	none
Shapefile description dialog	Opens a dialog with information about a shapefile theme		ESRI	no	Dialog designer	gives quite useful information	does not work with ArcView coverages!	problems if GUI set to "large fonts"
GeoLink	Used for linking Views together for synchronized zooming in either a Roam Overview or Sibling mode	GeoLink.pdf	Kenneth R. McVay	partly	none				quite easy - once the principle is understood

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status: 01.05.2005