I have been doing reading on MultiScaleImage source, and finding anything useful has proven to be quite difficult, thus I turn to the experts here. The specific knowledge I would like to have pertains to the GetTileLayers method. I know this method is used to get the image tiles. But I have no idea where this method is called from, or where the parameters come from or how I would use it if I subclassed the MultiScaleTileSource Class. Any insight into this method or the MSI model would be amazing but I have 3 main questions:
1. Where should/is the method GetTileLayers called from?
2. How should I change this method if I wanted to draw png's from a non-local URI?
3. Where can I find some reading to help with this?
In order to create a custom tile source, you would subclass MultiScaleTileSource
and override the GetTileLayers
method, as shown in the example below, which defines an image consisting of 1000*1000 tiles of size 256x256 pixels each.
public class MyTileSource : MultiScaleTileSource
{
public MyTileSource()
: base(1000 * 256, 1000 * 256, 256, 256, 0)
{
}
protected override void GetTileLayers(
int tileLevel, int tilePositionX, int tilePositionY,
IList<object> tileImageLayerSources)
{
// create an appropriate URI for tileLevel, tilePositionX and tilePositionY
// and add it to the tileImageLayerSources collection
var uri = new Uri(...);
tileImageLayerSources.Add(uri);
}
}
Now you would assign an instance of your MyTileSource class to your MultiScaleImage control:
MultiScaleImage msImage = ...
msImage.Source = new MyTileSource();