!!Help: Drawing Performance of ArcEngine

ThanhDoan — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:08:11 GMT

Hi everyone, I am studying in ArcEngine, and now I have one problem with Geometric Network here.
Imaging that I have an Enum of NetEID (IEnumNetEID)type EDGE want to draw to screen.
Then I use IScreenDisplay draw this Enum to screen base on Flow of each Edge.
Code:

private void ShowStatusNetEID()
        {
            INetwork m_Network = m_GeometricNetwork.Network;
            IUtilityNetworkGEN m_UtilityNetWorkGEN = m_Network as IUtilityNetworkGEN;
            IEnumNetEID m_EnumNetEID = m_Network.CreateNetBrowser(esriElementType.esriETEdge);
            m_EnumNetEID.Reset();
            int EdgeEID = m_EnumNetEID.Next();
#region Color presets
            IRgbColor BlueColor = new RgbColorClass();
            //Blue
            BlueColor.Red = 0;
            BlueColor.Green = 0;
            BlueColor.Blue = 200;

            IRgbColor GreenColor = new RgbColorClass();
            //Green
            GreenColor.Red = 0;
            GreenColor.Green = 200;
            GreenColor.Blue = 0;

            IRgbColor RedColor = new RgbColorClass();
            //Red
            RedColor.Red = 200;
            RedColor.Green = 0;
            RedColor.Blue = 0;
            #endregion

            #region m_GreenLineSymbol : LineSymbol with Green Color
            ILineSymbol m_GreenLineSymbol = new SimpleLineSymbolClass();
            m_GreenLineSymbol.Color = GreenColor;
            m_GreenLineSymbol.Width = 2;
            #endregion

            #region m_RedLineSymbol : LineSymbol with Red Color
            ILineSymbol m_RedLineSymbol = new SimpleLineSymbolClass();
            m_RedLineSymbol.Color = RedColor;
            m_RedLineSymbol.Width = 2;
            #endregion

            #region m_BlueLineSymbol : LineSymbol with Blue Color
            ILineSymbol m_BlueLineSymbol = new SimpleLineSymbolClass();
            m_BlueLineSymbol.Color = BlueColor;
            m_BlueLineSymbol.Width = 2;
            #endregion

            IScreenDisplay m_SD = axMapControl1.ActiveView.ScreenDisplay;
            
            //Draw Status on each Egde EID
            while (EdgeEID != null)
            {
                if (EdgeEID == 0)
                {
                    break;
                }
                //Green line for Edge has Flow
                if (m_UtilityNetWorkGEN.GetFlowDirection(EdgeEID) == esriFlowDirection.esriFDAgainstFlow || m_UtilityNetWorkGEN.GetFlowDirection(EdgeEID) == esriFlowDirection.esriFDWithFlow)
                {
                    IGeometry m_Geometry = m_GeometricNetwork.get_GeometryForEdgeEID(EdgeEID);
                    m_SD.SetSymbol(m_GreenLineSymbol as ISymbol);
                    m_SD.DrawPolyline(m_Geometry);
                    m_SD.FinishDrawing();
                }
                //Red Line for Edge that Uninitialize flow
                else if (m_UtilityNetWorkGEN.GetFlowDirection(EdgeEID) == esriFlowDirection.esriFDUninitialized) 
                {
                    IGeometry m_Geometry = m_GeometricNetwork.get_GeometryForEdgeEID(EdgeEID);
                    m_SD.StartDrawing(m_SD.hDC, GN_CacheID);
                    m_SD.SetSymbol(m_RedLineSymbol as ISymbol);
                    m_SD.DrawPolyline(m_Geometry);
                    m_SD.FinishDrawing();
                }

                //Blue line for Edge that Indeterminate flow
                else if (m_UtilityNetWorkGEN.GetFlowDirection(EdgeEID) == esriFlowDirection.esriFDIndeterminate)
                {
                    IGeometry m_Geometry = m_GeometricNetwork.get_GeometryForEdgeEID(EdgeEID);
                    m_SD.StartDrawing(m_SD.hDC, GN_CacheID);
                    m_SD.SetSymbol(m_BlueLineSymbol as ISymbol);
                    m_SD.DrawPolyline(m_Geometry);
                    m_SD.FinishDrawing();
                }
                EdgeEID = m_EnumNetEID.Next();
            }
        }

This code working good and fast on an Network within 1000 edges. But with a large network (e.g 3000 edges) it draw very slow.
So can anyone help me some issue here:
1.How to Draw just draw what is invisible on map( i.e data layer not check on TOC or inside the Network but not load on map.)
2. When Panning or Zooming, how can we just draw the specific screen-frame that show on the ScreenDisplay( not drawing all stuff from Cache to screen, just the area that show up on ScreenDisplay)
3.Can we Drawing using MultiThread for faster.

Re: !!Help: Drawing Performance of ArcEngine

DubravkoAntonic — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:04:05 GMT

Use StartDrawing and FinishDrawing only once, maybe before and after the while statement. For each StartDrawing you have overhed of creating copy of screen device context.

1. Invisible features are all coordinates outside of map extent
2. Screen caching is not so trivial task, I'm not sure if I can make good hint.
3. ArcObjects are not multi threading keep in mind for syncing, drawing is performed on device context and that is a single thread operation.

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