I'm building a plug-in which will read a MS-Access database gets coordinates from a table and creates polygons of those coordinates and adds them to a new shapefile.
The most time consuming part is the looping through the datatable, creating shapes and add them to the shapefile. This part I've put in a backgroundworker.
On my form I use a label en progressbar for progress messages using the backgroundworker events (worker.ReportProgress()).
This works great. But after adding all shapes I need to save the shapefile, because it contains over 19.000 shapes this takes a while (5-6 minutes).
The sf.StopEditingShapes() methods can use the ICallBack interface I try the implement it. I haven't used it before and I don't get it to work.
The backgroundworker might be responsible for this, but when I put my saveShapefile method outside the backgroundworker thread nothing happens either.
First I want to know if I can use the ICallBack interface in a class method which is called by the Backgroundworker.
Secondly I would like to know if my implementation is ok.
Here's some code.

The form:

public partial class frmSettings : Form, MapWinGIS.ICallback
    {
  private void btnCreateShapefile_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
      this.clsPlugin = new pluginCode(_mapWin, this);
      if (this.clsPlugin.createShapefile(this))
      {
          this.lblProgress.Text = "Base shapefile is created.";
          this.progressBar1.Value = 1;
          this.lblProgress.Text = "Start computing ...";
          this.backgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync();
      }
  }
  private void backgroundWorker1_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
  {
      // Get the BackgroundWorker that raised this event.
            BackgroundWorker worker = sender as BackgroundWorker;
      worker.ReportProgress(1);
      // Loop through all records and fill the shapefile:            
            this.clsPlugin.executeQueryThread(worker,e);
  }

  private void backgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
  {
      this.lblProgress.Text = String.Format("Calculating... {0}% completed.", e.ProgressPercentage);
      this.progressBar1.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;
  }

  private void backgroundWorker1_RunWorkerCompleted(object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
  {
      if (!e.Cancelled) 
      {
          this.lblProgress.Text = "Finished creating shapefile. Start saving ...";
          this.backgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(this.progressBar1.Maximum);
          // Save the shapefile outside the backgroundworker thread:
          this.clsPlugin.saveShapefile();
      }
  }

  public void Error(string KeyOfSender, string ErrorMsg)
  {
      this.lblProgress.Text = KeyOfSender + ":" + ErrorMsg; 
  }

  public void Progress(string KeyOfSender, int Percent, string Message)
  {
      this.lblProgress.Text = String.Format("Adding shapes... {0}% completed. {1}", Percent, Message);
      this.progressBar1.Value = Percent;
  }
}

The class:

public class pluginCode
    {
  private MapWindow.Interfaces.IMapWin _mapWin;
  private MapWinGIS.Shapefile sf = null;
  private MapWinGIS.ICallback mwCallBack;

  /// <summary>
        /// Constructor
        /// </summary>
        public pluginCode(MapWindow.Interfaces.IMapWin MapWin, MapWinGIS.ICallback mwCallBack)
  {
      _mapWin = MapWin;
      this.mwCallBack = mwCallBack;
  }

  public void executeQueryThread(BackgroundWorker worker, DoWorkEventArgs e)
  {
    // Create shapes and add them to the shapefile

    worker.ReportProgress((int)((double)numRows / (double)maxRows * 100));
  }
  public void saveShapefile() 
  {
      // sf Save:
      if (!this.sf.StopEditingShapes(true, true, this.mwCallBack))
          throw new Exception("Error in saving shapefile: "
                    + this.sf.get_ErrorMsg(this.sf.LastErrorCode));

      this.mwCallBack.Progress("", 100, "Add Shapefile as layer.");
      this._mapWin.Layers.Add(ref this.sf, "Percelen", Convert.ToInt32(ColorTranslator.ToOle(Color.Aqua)), Convert.ToInt32(ColorTranslator.ToOle(Color.Black)));
  }
}

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

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Where are you calling StartEditingShapes(True)?

Thanks.

-Phil

Before calling the backgroundworker. Might that be the problem?
I could move everything inside the backgroundworker. I only use a MessageBox if the shapefile already exists. Don't know if that is going to be a problem.
Tomorrow (it's almost midnight here) I'll try moving everything inside the backgroundworker.

Phil, You have used a backgroundworker and the ICallBack before?

Thanks,

Paul

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No, I haven't used either. I just didn't see where you were calling that.

Not sure what you mean by "saving" the shapefile. In my code where I create shapefiles, it's always just something like this:

ShpF.StartEditingShapes(True)
loop, calling ShpF.EditInsertShape and ShpF.CellValue for each shape to add
ShpF.StopEditingShapes(True, True)


Thanks.

-Phil

Phil,

By saving the shapefile I call the method saveShapefile().
As seen in my start post it calls
sf.StopEditingShapes
and ads the shapefile as a layer to MapWindow.

Too bad you haven't used a backgroundworker and the ICallBack ;)

Does anybody else have any experience with it?

Thanks,

Paul

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