topic Re: Use IRasterShader in add-in button? in ArcObjects SDK Questions

Use IRasterShader in add-in button?

EvanBlaisdell — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:32:10 GMT

Hello,

I want to create an add-in button that programmatically applies contrast, brightness, and gamma to a raster layer. I found the IRasterShader interface in the documentation, but no examples of how to use it. My efforts to use it have not been successful thus far.

Right now I'm doing something like:

IRasterLayer rLayer = map.get_Layer(index);
IRasterShader rShader = rLayer as IRasterShader;
rShader.Brightness = brightValue;

But rShader is null. Does anyone have any insight?

Thanks.

Re: Use IRasterShader in add-in button?

DuncanHornby — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 22:23:40 GMT

It's not obvious in the Help which class uses the IRasterShader interface. If you are just tweaking brightness as your snippet suggests you can point ILayerEffects to an IRasterLayer object and set the brightness.

This VBA code shows how to adjust brightness:

Public Sub test()
    Dim pMXdoc As IMxDocument
    Set pMXdoc = ThisDocument
    Dim pMap As IMap
    Set pMap = pMXdoc.FocusMap
    Dim pRasterLayer As IRasterLayer
    Set pRasterLayer = pMap.Layer(0)
    Dim pLayerEffects As ILayerEffects
    Set pLayerEffects = pRasterLayer
    pLayerEffects.Brightness = 99
End Sub