Hi again, ESRI users. If your ArcMap zoom or selection extent rectangles vanish (the lines that create a rectangle around the area you are zooming to or from, or that define the areas you are selecting), or if you can no longer see lines or polygon features as you're drawing them in edit mode, check your Advanced ArcMap Settings Utility (C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Utilities\AdvancedArcMapSettings.exe), Symbols/Graphics tab, "Selection feedback rectangle outline symbol." If the line width is set to less than 1, that line won't be displayed in ArcMap at all. Which begs the question, "why should one be able to set said line width to a value lower than 1?" And, "why do I bother asking questions like this any more?"
(Credit goes to my estimable colleague Erin for unintentionally inflicting the problem upon herself and then unearthing the solution.)
Posted by Charles on March 13, 2009 03:55 PM