[GIS] How to apply ArcGIS time slider on Multiple Data Frames at once

Question

Is there a way to use the Time Slider on multiple data frames simultaneously?

Example: My Dataframe 1 shows precipitation values over an area and DataFrame 2 shows corresponding temperature.. I want to be able to use the slider to advance both DFrames at once. Right now only the 'activated' dataframe is being changed with the slider..

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Another example:

I have one main map and 4 inset maps with the same time-aware dataset (see image with main frame activated). I can only export the animation with one frame following time. I would like the end result to be sequential images. Has ESRI evolved some way to control multiple frames, or can you suggest a method that would get the same result?

Answer 1

I believe that you'll need to write some functionality in ArcObjects to achieve this, as it's not supported by the default ArcMap time slider.

There is a sample at Set the time extents for a layer then render the layer which may give some clues.

Note that this code gets a reference to the active view (the current data frame) and applies the time properties:

Dim pActiveView As IActiveView = TryCast(pMap, IActiveView)
Dim pScreenDisplay As IScreenDisplay = pActiveView.ScreenDisplay
Dim pTimeDisplay As ITimeDisplay = TryCast(pScreenDisplay, ITimeDisplay)
... sets the time properties...
pTimeDisplay.TimeValue = TryCast(pTimeExt, ITimeValue)
pActiveView.Refresh()

You may be able to get a reference to the second data frame, and apply the pTimeDisplay settings to this data frame at the same time.