Getting map coordinates from screen coordinates
Call IDisplayTransformation.ToMapPoint by passing in an x,y of IPoint that contains coordinate values from the device (screen) in your Windows application and IActiveView. The IPoint interface containing real-world (map) coordinates is returned by the method. See the following steps and code examples:
- Obtain an IScreenDisplay reference to the ScreenDisplay object from IActiveView.ScreenDisplay. See the following code example:
Dim screenDisplay As ESRI.ArcGIS.Display.IScreenDisplay = activeView.ScreenDisplay
[C#]
ESRI.ArcGIS.Display.IScreenDisplay screenDisplay = activeView.ScreenDisplay;
- Obtain an IDisplayTransformation reference to the DisplayTransformation object from IScreenDisplay.DisplayTransformation. See the following code example:
Dim displayTransformation As ESRI.ArcGIS.Display.IDisplayTransformation = screenDisplay.DisplayTransformation
[C#]
ESRI.ArcGIS.Display.IDisplayTransformation displayTransformation =
screenDisplay.DisplayTransformation
- Call the IDisplayTransformation.ToMapPoint method to convert x,y device (screen) coordinates to real-world (map) coordinates. The IPoint interface that contains real-world (map) coordinates is returned by the method. See the following code example:
displayTransformation.ToMapPoint(CInt(Fix(screenPoint.X)), CInt(Fix(screenPoint.Y)))
[C#]
displayTransformation.ToMapPoint((System.Int32)screenPoint.X, (System.Int32)
screenPoint
See the following code example that shows the GetMapCoordinatesFromScreenCoordinates function that takes point in device (screen coordinates) and returns point in real-world (map) coordinates:
[VB.NET]
Public Function GetMapCoordinatesFromScreenCoordinates(ByVal screenPoint As ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry.IPoint, ByVal activeView As ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IActiveView) As ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry.IPoint
If screenPoint Is Nothing OrElse screenPoint.IsEmpty OrElse activeView Is Nothing Then
Return Nothing
End If
Dim screenDisplay As ESRI.ArcGIS.Display.IScreenDisplay = activeView.ScreenDisplay
Dim displayTransformation As ESRI.ArcGIS.Display.IDisplayTransformation = screenDisplay.DisplayTransformation
Return displayTransformation.ToMapPoint(CInt(Fix(screenPoint.X)), CInt(Fix(screenPoint.Y)))
End Function
[C#]
public ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry.IPoint GetMapCoordinatesFromScreenCoordinates
(ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry.IPoint screenPoint, ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IActiveView
activeView)
{
if (screenPoint == null || screenPoint.IsEmpty || activeView == null)
{
return null;
}
ESRI.ArcGIS.Display.IScreenDisplay screenDisplay = activeView.ScreenDisplay;
ESRI.ArcGIS.Display.IDisplayTransformation displayTransformation =
screenDisplay.DisplayTransformation;
return displayTransformation.ToMapPoint((System.Int32)screenPoint.X,
(System.Int32)screenPoint.Y); // Explicit cast.
}
See Also:
How to get screen coordinates from map coordinatesSnippet: Get geographic coordinates in globe
Snippet: Get map coordinates from screen coordinates
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