GIS Programming Module 10 - Creating Tools

This week's work was to create a toolbox and script tool in ArcGIS so as to leverage an existing script via the ArcGIS UI. The script was modified such that parameters were sent to it via a dialogue window in ArcGIS and to send any messages that had been directed to StdOut to the ArcGIS results window instead. The end result is a script tool that can be used easily within ArcGIS by users without any familiarity with scripting for ArcGIS and which is also easy to share with users on other systems.

Input dialogue window generated by the script tool

Results window showing output from the script