test a point is inside a view

Unknown said:

I tried to use mdlClip_... but it seems that these functions are made only for references

I don't understand your conclusion.  The mdlClip_xxx functions don't take a model reference argument, so how can they even know what model they refer to?

Jon,

thank you for answer

I tried to use mdlClip_fromElement()

This function gets MSElementDescr* so there may be a model reference

Something like this:

for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)

{

MSElementDescr   *edP;

ElementRef eref;

mdlView_getClipBoundaryElement (&elidView[i], i);

eref = dgnCache_findElemByID (mdlModelRef_getCache(MASTERFILE), elidView[i]);

if (eref)

{

mdlElmdscr_getByElemRef (&edP, eref, MASTERFILE, FALSE, 0);

mdlClip_fromElement(&arViewClip[i], edP, FALSE, NULL, -1);

}

}

Unknown said:

This function gets MSElementDescr* so there may be a model reference

Only inasmuch as you're obtaining the element descriptor from the active model.  But what are you attempting? To obtain a clip descriptor from each of MicroStation's views doesn't make sense.  Also, if you're working in 3D, the clip descriptor is a 3D volume not a 2D area.

MASTERFILE, by the way, is not a macro for the long term — it won't work with V8i. In this situation, mdlView_getRootModel might be a better bet. More generally, get a DgnModelRefP from somewhere.  ACTIVEMODEL remains a valid macro, but all it does is to wrap mdlModelRef_getActive.

Jon,

Thank you very much for helping

Jon,

Thank you very much for helping