Mastering ArcGIS Server Development with JavaScript

Adding some action

At this point, we have a map that draws all the state and census block and track data. We need more than that. We need a way for the user to interact with the site. The ArcGIS JavaScript API incorporates many tools provided by the native JavaScript language, plus new tools provided by Dojo.

Events

When many of us learned traditional programming, we learned that programs followed a linear design. They started on the first line and ended on the last line. The computer performed each computation in an ordered fashion, and would not go on to the next line until the current line had finished.

But JavaScript adds something different. JavaScript adds an event loop that monitors for specific website interactions, such as a change in a ...