How to draw a polyline on the screen

Summary
This article shows how to draw a polyline using IRubberBand. In this example, the polyline will not persist on the screen but will be removed after the next screen refresh.

Drawing a polyline on the screen
The following code draws a polyline on the screen in the ActiveView where the mouse is clicked. The x,y coordinates come from a mousedown click event when the user interacts with the application.
[Java] 
static void drawPolyline(IActiveView activeView)throws Exception{
    IScreenDisplay screenDisplay = activeView.getScreenDisplay();

    screenDisplay.startDrawing(screenDisplay.getHDC(), (short)
        esriScreenCache.esriNoScreenCache);
    IRgbColor rgbColor = new RgbColor();
    rgbColor.setRed(255);

    IColor color = rgbColor;
    ISimpleLineSymbol simpleLineSymbol = new SimpleLineSymbol();
    simpleLineSymbol.setColor(color);

    ISymbol symbol = (ISymbol)simpleLineSymbol;
    IRubberBand rubberBand = new RubberLine();
    IGeometry geometry = rubberBand.trackNew(screenDisplay, symbol);
    screenDisplay.setSymbol(symbol);
    screenDisplay.drawPolyline(geometry);
    screenDisplay.finishDrawing();
}


See Also:

How to draw a point on the screen
How to draw a polygon on the screen
How to draw a rectangle on the screen



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