/// <summary>
/// CreateFeatures - make ESRI features based on text
/// </summary>
/// <param name="layername">layer to add data to</param>
/// <returns></returns>
internal bool CreateFeatures(string layername)
{
bool result = true;
try
{
ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IFeatureLayer2 featlayer = code.Layers.getFeatureLayerByName("MyLines");
if (featlayer != null)
{
ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.IFeatureBuffer newFeatBuff = featlayer.FeatureClass.CreateFeatureBuffer();
ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.IFeatureCursor featureCursor = featlayer.FeatureClass.Insert(true);
foreach (TextGeomItem item in this.TextGeometries)
{
// // ID = unique id for gis line feature
newFeatBuff.set_Value(featlayer.FeatureClass.FindField("LineID"), Guid.NewGuid().ToString("B"));
newFeatBuff.set_Value(featlayer.FeatureClass.FindField("LETTER"), item.Text);
newFeatBuff.Shape = item.Geometry;
featureCursor.InsertFeature(newFeatBuff);
}
featureCursor.Flush();
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(featureCursor);
}
return(result);
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
return(false);
}
}
internal static ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IFeatureLayer2 getFeatureLayerByName(string name)
{
if (name.Length > 0)
{
ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.ILayer layer = getLayerByName(name);
if (layer != null)
{
ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IFeatureLayer2 featlayer = (ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IFeatureLayer2)layer;
return(featlayer);
}
}
return(null);
}
private void btnExecute_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// for now map must be wgs84
if (ArcMap.Document.FocusMap.SpatialReference == null)
{
MessageBox.Show("Please put Map Document Data Frame into - Geographic Coordinate System: WGS 1984");
return;
}
if (ArcMap.Document.FocusMap.SpatialReference.FactoryCode != 4326)
{
MessageBox.Show("Please put Map Document Data Frame into - Geographic Coordinate System: WGS 1984");
return;
}
// convert text
if (txtText.Text.Length > 0)
{
// convert and collect text info
code.TextGeomsStruct.TextGeomCollection tgCollection = new code.TextGeomsStruct.TextGeomCollection(txtText.Text);
ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IFeatureLayer2 featLayer = (ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IFeatureLayer2)code.Layers.getLayerByName("MyLines");
if (featLayer == null)
{
// create new layer to hold features
code.CreateLineLayer createLineFeatureClass = new code.CreateLineLayer();
featLayer = createLineFeatureClass.CreateFeatureLayer("MyLines", code.Layers.returnSR(), "in_memory");
// featLayer = code.Layers.CreateFeatureLayer("MyLines", code.Layers.returnSR(), "in_memory");
ArcMap.Document.FocusMap.AddLayer((ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.ILayer)featLayer);
// actually create the features and add them to the layer
bool b = tgCollection.CreateFeatures("MyLines");
}
else
{
// TODO: this will cause stacked text if ran more then once. need to add parameter to shift new text
bool b = tgCollection.CreateFeatures("MyLines");
}
ArcMap.Document.ActiveView.PartialRefresh(ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.esriViewDrawPhase.esriViewGeography, null, null);
}
}