How to find out the overlapping object?

[Maria_prabhudoss]

Is it possible to find out wheather one pathItem which not in horizontal and vertical position be overlaped or touched any other items like pathitems,textframes etc. in illustrator cs3 active document.

I got the top, left, right and bottom values of the bounding box for every items. From that i got the overlap of bounding boxes. But i don't know how to find out one pathItem overlaped (or) touched any other items. Kindly advice me the possibilities. I have attached the sample file for review.

Thanks in advance.

[A. Patterson]

Unfortunately, I don't know of any Illustrator SDK functionality that provides 'do these paths intersect/overlap'. I'm afraid you have to perform bounding box checks like you're already doing, then conduct segment-by-segment comparisons when you find potential overlaps (as indicated by bounding box hits).

[SteveBurnt]

You always can copy your art and implement "Intersect" in Pathfinder

using sAIActionManager->PlayActionEvent(...).

Then check if remained art  != nil.