PointIcons.cs

This example demonstrates how to generate unique value classification for point shapefile and to assign an icon for each category. The icons will be chosen from the folder on disk automatically provided that the name of the icon matches the value of the chosen field. Here is a screenshot with the results of the code execution.

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using AxMapWinGIS;
using MapWinGIS;
 
namespace Examples
{
    public partial class MapExamples
    {
        // <summary>
        // Assigns markers for points
        // </summary>
        public void PointIcons(AxMap axMap1, string dataPath, string iconPath)
        {
            axMap1.Projection = tkMapProjection.PROJECTION_GOOGLE_MERCATOR;
 
            if (!Directory.Exists(iconPath))
            {
                MessageBox.Show("Icons folder wasn't found: " + iconPath);
                return;
            }
        
            string roads = dataPath + "roads.shp";
            string buildings = dataPath + "buildings.shp";
            if (File.Exists(roads))
            {
                Shapefile sfRoads = new Shapefile();
                sfRoads.Open(roads, null);
                sfRoads.DefaultDrawingOptions.LineWidth = 5;
                //axMap1.AddLayer(sfRoads, true);
 
                Shapefile sfBuildings = new Shapefile();
                sfBuildings.Open(buildings, null);
                axMap1.AddLayer(sfBuildings, true);
            }
 
            Shapefile sf = new Shapefile();
            string filename = dataPath + "points.shp";
            if (!sf.Open(filename, null))
            {
                MessageBox.Show("Failed to open shapefile: " + 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
                
                int index = sf.Table.FieldIndexByName["Type"];
                var names = new HashSet<string>();
            
                for (int i = 0; i < sf.Table.NumRows; i++)
                {
                    names.Add((string)sf.Table.CellValue[index, i]);
                }
 
                string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(iconPath);
                foreach (string file in files)
                {
                    string name = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file);
                    if (Path.GetExtension(file).ToLower() == ".png" && names.Contains(name))
                    {
                        Image img = new Image();
                        if (img.Open(file, ImageType.USE_FILE_EXTENSION, true, null))
                        {
                            ShapefileCategory ct = sf.Categories.Add(name);
                            ct.Expression = "[Type] = \"" + name + "\"";
                            ct.DrawingOptions.PointType = tkPointSymbolType.ptSymbolPicture;
                            ct.DrawingOptions.Picture = img;
                        }
                    }
                }
 
                sf.DefaultDrawingOptions.Visible = false;   // hide all the unclassified points
                sf.Categories.ApplyExpressions();
                axMap1.Redraw();
            }
        }
    }
}