topic why I can't read point data from polyline in ArcObjects SDK Questions

why I can't read point data from polyline

taishengchen — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:15:25 GMT

I write an ATL project like logomarkersymbol. I want to read polyline data in Draw function , I use IPointCollectionPtr to read, but failed, the pointcollection is empty. Why???

my code is :

IPolylinePtr spPolyline(Geometry);
           IGeometryCollectionPtr spGeometryCollection(spPolyline);

if(NULL == spGeometryCollection)
return E_FAIL;

long nGeos=0;
spGeometryCollection->get_GeometryCount(&nGeos);

for (i=0;i<nGeos;i++)
{
IGeometryPtr spGeometry;
spGeometryCollection->get_Geometry(i, &spGeometry);
IPointCollectionPtr spCollection(spGeometry);

long nPoints=0;
nPoints = spPointCollection->get_PointCount(&nPoints);

                      //spPolyline, spGeometry and spPointCollection has values, but npoint is empty. why???
                      ??????
             }

Re: why I can't read point data from polyline

FridjofSchmidt — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:24:10 GMT

spPolyline, spGeometry and spPointCollection has values, but npoint is empty. why???

Have you tried to query IGeometry.IsEmpty? Maybe you just got an empty polyline object, i.e. the collections are defined but the geometry does not contain any points.

Re: why I can't read point data from polyline

ArunIndugula — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:50:03 GMT

I've only looked at this for a few minutes, but it looks like you have two bugs here:

...

IPointCollectionPtr spCollection(spGeometry); // BUG 1: this variable needs to be called "spPointCollection" to match the next use

long nPoints=0;
nPoints = spPointCollection->get_PointCount(&nPoints); // BUG 2: you are returning your HRESULT into your nPoints variable

...

So here's how I would fix this:

...

IPointCollectionPtr spPointCollection(spGeometry);

long nPoints=0;
HRESULT hr = spPointCollection->get_PointCount(&nPoints);

...

Keep in mind, the reason your points kept returning "0" is because that is the HRESULT code for "OK". I tested these changes out and they seem to give me good results.

-Sigma3 Engineer