[GIS] Pause drawing button (plus others) missing from view window

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The pause-drawing, refresh, and data/layout toggle buttons have disappeared from my view window. I'm using ArcGIS Desktop Standard 10.4.1. I've not upgraded recently or made any changes to the ArcMap configuration. I recognize there are other ways to accomplish these tasks, but I enjoy the convenience of these tools in the lower left corner of the map.

I'm not aware of this button configuration being a toolbar, but I did search through the toolbars unsuccessfully.

These tools are available in 10.4.1. See here.

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You can show/hide these buttons by selecting View from the menu bar then selecting/deselecting Scroll Bars:

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Usually I see this if the Windows environmental variables aren't set up correctly.

Try:

Start command prompt (go to Start Menu ---> Run ---> type cmd)
Type python, and then import arcpy (shown below is what you want to see)

Does everything work without errors?

If you get an error, then try:

Right click on My Computer and go to Properties, then click on the Advanced system settings, and then on the Advanced tab click on the Environment Variables button at the bottom.
Next, in the lower part of the window find the Variable that says Path and double click on it, and makes sure that the following paths are at the front of the Variable value list:
```
 C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.2;C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.2\Scripts;C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.2\Lib;
```

(Verify that these paths exist. Also, be sure to alter the 10.2 to your ArcGIS version.)

Restart your computer. After restarting, try doing the python and import arcpy from the Command Prompt again.

Otherwise, it may be version related like @Chad Cooper suggested. This is pretty easy to fix. Open the .esriaddin file with 7zip, and then open the config.xml file.

In the config.xml file look for:

<Target name="Desktop" version="10.1" />

Change the version to match your current install. Save the edits to the config.xml file, and when it prompts if you'd like to update it in the archive, click OK.

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A DataFrame object has an extent property, the extent property/object can be used in the basic spatial relationship methods of contains, within, equals, overlaps, touches and disjoint as well as distanceTo, see here for more details on those methods.

With that in mind you can loop over the layers you retrieve from calling arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd,"", df) and retrieve each layers extent by calling the getExtent method on each layer. The spatial relationships discussed above can be tested between the extent.polygon object of each layer and the dataframe to determine if they are indeed within the extent of the dataframe. If you are using data driven pages the extent of each page can be retrieved with an mxd object with this call mxd.dataDrivePages.dataFrame.extent.

It is important to note that the extent of a layer often has a larger footprint that than the actual vector within the layer (e.g. the polygon, points, raster, etc.), so depending on the spatial relationship you choose to test it may include more layers than are actually visible. Here is an example (thanks @KHibma) of how you would use a spatial relationship method of the DataFrame with a Layer object:

mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")
df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd)[0]
for l in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(df):
    if not df.extent.disjoint(l.getExtent()): 
        print l.name

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