How to use ITrackCancel to escape IRubberBand track?

Question

I have a BaseTool for AX_MapControl and AX_PageLayoutControl that allows to draw a polyline via IRubberBand. But once the rubberband is started, you can't cancel it e.g. by hitting escape. I found ITrackCancel but unfortunatly no way to use it properly.

ITrackCancel2 esc = new CancelTrackerClass();
esc.CancelOnKeyPress = true;
esc.Reset();

IRubberBand2 rubberBand = new RubberLineClass();
IGeometry geometry = rubberBand.TrackNew(screenDisplay, null);
IPolyline polyline = (IPolyline)geometry;

How do I use ITrackCancel to cancel the rubberband tracking?

Update: ITrackCancel can be retrieved from IScreenDisplay but my m_hookHelper.ActiveView.ScreenDisplay.CancelTracker is null. I use the tool with AX_MapControl and AX_PageLayoutControl.

Update 2: I found out, that even Esris own tools like esriControls.ControlsNewLineTool can't be canceled with escape in my application. Maybe there is a deeper flaw somewhere. Going to dive deeper into it...

Update 3 (Solution): There is a glitch in my WPF application. It seems, that on startup no key events arrive the MapControl until you change the window size once. So this is not a problem with ITrackCancel but with the interaction between WPF and ArcEngine. Thanks anyways for your help.

Answer 1

The documentation for rubber bands suggests that they should support cancelling via pressing the Esc key.

If that really does not work for you, consider using a display feedback instead, e.g. the NewLineFeedback. Display feedbacks are a bit more involved than rubber bands, but they are not necessarily that much difficult to use. Plus, you can Stop most feedbacks at will at any time (e.g. upon pressing Esc).

Answer 2

ScreenDisplay coclass is implementing IScreendisplay which has a CancelTracker member IScreenDisplay Interface ..So it should get the escape button press as far as i know..the below code works..

public override void OnMouseDown(int Button, int Shift, int X, int Y)
        {

            IMxDocument pMxDoc = (IMxDocument)m_application.Document ;
            IGraphicsContainer pGraCont = (IGraphicsContainer)pMxDoc.ActiveView;
            IRubberBand pRubberLine = new RubberLineClass();
            IElement pElement;
            IPolyline pPolyline = (IPolyline)pRubberLine.TrackNew(pMxDoc.ActiveView.ScreenDisplay,null);
            pElement = new LineElementClass();
            pElement.Geometry = pPolyline;
            pGraCont.AddElement(pElement,0);
            pMxDoc.ActiveView.Refresh();

        }

Answer 3

Both suggested answers do work fine. I had another failure in my WPF application, that caused this behavior. It seems, that after the start no key event arrived the MapControl until one changes the window size once. After that all worked as exspected. So it was not a problem with ITrackCancel but with the interaction between WPF and ArcEngine.