CreateBuffer.cs

This example demonstrates how to create several buffers around the rivers. Four buffers are build sequentially, each of them as the separate shapefile.The overlapping shapes of each buffer are merged together. Then smaller buffers are subtracted from the larger ones, making "holes" in them. After it all 4 buffers are copied to a single shapefile with buffer distance field. Finally a color scheme ranging from blue to yellow is applied. An implementation of ICallback interface is used for reporting progress information. Here is a screenshot with the results of the code execution.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using AxMapWinGIS;
using MapWinGIS;
 
namespace Examples
{
    public partial class MapExamples
    {
        // <summary>
        // Creates several buffers around the waterways.
        // </summary>
        public void CreateBuffer(AxMap axMap1, string dataPath, System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripStatusLabel label)
        {
            axMap1.Projection = tkMapProjection.PROJECTION_GOOGLE_MERCATOR;
 
            string filename = dataPath + "waterways.shp";
            if (!File.Exists(filename))
            {
                MessageBox.Show("The shapefile with rivers wasn't found: " + filename);
            }
            else
            {
                var callback = new Callback(label);
            
                var sf = new Shapefile();
                if (!sf.Open(filename, callback))
                {
                    MessageBox.Show(sf.ErrorMsg[sf.LastErrorCode]);
                }
                else
                {
                    int layerHandle = axMap1.AddLayer(sf, true);
                    sf = axMap1.get_Shapefile(layerHandle);     // in case a copy of shapefile was created by GlobalSettings.ReprojectLayersOnAdding
                    
                    var utils = new Utils();
                    sf.DefaultDrawingOptions.LineWidth = 3.0f;
                    sf.DefaultDrawingOptions.LineColor = utils.ColorByName(tkMapColor.Blue);
                
                    const double distance = 150; // meters
                    var buffers = new List<Shapefile>();
                    for (int i = 1; i < 5; i++)
                    {
                        Shapefile sfBuffer = sf.BufferByDistance(distance * i, 30, false, true);
                        if (sfBuffer == null)
                        {
                            MessageBox.Show("Failed to calculate the buffer: " + sf.ErrorMsg[sf.LastErrorCode]);
                            return;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            sfBuffer.GlobalCallback = callback;
                            buffers.Add(sfBuffer);
                        }
                    }
 
                    // now subtract smaller buffers from larger ones
                    for (int i = buffers.Count - 1; i > 0; i--)
                    {
                        Shapefile sfDiff = buffers[i].Difference(false, buffers[i - 1], false);
                        if (sfDiff == null)
                        {
                            MessageBox.Show("Failed to calculate the difference: " + sf.ErrorMsg[sf.LastErrorCode]);
                            return;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            buffers[i] = sfDiff;
                        }
                    }
 
                    // pass all the resulting shapes to a single shapefile and mark their distance
                    Shapefile sfResult = buffers[0].Clone();
                    sfResult.GlobalCallback = callback;
                    int fieldIndex = sfResult.EditAddField("Distance", FieldType.DOUBLE_FIELD, 10, 12);
                
                    for (int i = 0; i < buffers.Count; i++ )
                    {                
                        Shapefile sfBuffer = buffers[i];
                        for (int j = 0; j < sfBuffer.NumShapes; j++)
                        {
                            int index = sfResult.NumShapes; 
                            sfResult.EditInsertShape(sfBuffer.Shape[j].Clone(), ref index);
                            sfResult.EditCellValue(fieldIndex, index, distance * (i + 1));
                        }
                    }
                
                    // create visualization categories
                    sfResult.DefaultDrawingOptions.FillType = tkFillType.ftStandard;
                    sfResult.Categories.Generate(fieldIndex, tkClassificationType.ctUniqueValues, 0);
                    sfResult.Categories.ApplyExpressions();
 
                    // apply color scheme
                    var scheme = new ColorScheme();
                    scheme.SetColors2(tkMapColor.LightBlue, tkMapColor.LightYellow);
                    sfResult.Categories.ApplyColorScheme(tkColorSchemeType.ctSchemeGraduated, scheme);
 
                    layerHandle = axMap1.AddLayer(sfResult, true);
                    axMap1.Redraw();
 
                    //sfResult.SaveAs(@"c:\buffers.shp", null);
                }
            }
        }
    }
 
    class Callback : ICallback
    {
        private ToolStripStatusLabel m_label = null;
 
        public Callback(ToolStripStatusLabel label)
        {
            m_label = label;
            if (label == null)
                throw new NullReferenceException("No reference to the label was provided");
        }
    
        public void Error(string KeyOfSender, string ErrorMsg)
        {
            Debug.Print("Error reported: " + ErrorMsg);
        }
 
        public void Progress(string KeyOfSender, int Percent, string Message)
        {
            m_label.Text = Message + ": " + Percent + "%";
            Application.DoEvents();
        }
    }
}