How to draw AI annotation on document view during mouse drag

I created a AI tool plugin, when use the tool, I hope press mouse left key and drag in document view, AI will draw a rectangle, when mouse up, the rectangle disappears, just like ordinary select tool. So I wrote a class to implement AIAnnotation, during mouse drag, just let the annotation been invalidated. but I see nothing displayed. In the draw funtion I just use DefineClipStart() and then draw a rectangle using AIAnnotation drawer, at last call DefineClipEnd(). After mouse up call ClearClip(). Could anyone tell me if I made something wrong? Thanks in advance.

Hello,
At the begining of ToolMouseDrag(AIToolMessage* message)
add the five following lines, so toolAnnotate(AIAnnotatorMessage *message) will be called each the mouse will be dragged.
AIDocumentViewHandle view;
AIReal zoomview;
AIErr error=kNoErr;
//To call toolAnnotate.
error=sDocView->GetNthDocumentView (0, &view);
error=sDocView->GetDocumentViewZoom(vue, & zoomview);
I used this method in my tools for Illustrator JLG.Dimension for instance and it works well.
JLG.

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