Using mouse-over on raster surface to stream values to text file using ArcGIS Desktop?

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This is a weird one. I have a user who wants to add a statistical surface to ArcMap and then mouse-over the raster surface and stream those values (z) to a text file. MouseTips can show underlying values, but I can't see a way to use it.

I'm not inclined to create features and geoprocess them for the results as the user wanted a real time experience. Several searches in stack and google have not yielded any results.

I am using ArcGIS Desktop 10.3.1.

Is it even possible?

PolyGeo · Answer

Assuming that the user is not processing the output file as the Z values come into it, I think the answer will be to use stream mode when adding a line to get the "real-time" capturing effect that your user is after.

Once you have the line, use its vertices (you may need to convert them to points first), to get cell values for them that you write to the text file.

Alternatively, I suspect that you would need to use ArcObjects to do more precisely what you describe.

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