Need a cookbook for creating a compound Path

Question

Hello together,
has anyone a short sample for creating a compund path with to pathes inside?
This doesn't work:
iErr = sAIArt->NewArt( kCompoundPathArt, kPlaceInsideOnBottom, firstLayerArtHnd, &newArtHnd);    
iErr = sAIPath->SetPathClosed( newArtHnd, isClosed);
//Adding segments
// Adding one child
iErr = sAIArt->NewArt( kPathArt, kPlaceInsideOnBottom, newArtHnd, &childArtHnd);
//Adding segments to the child
iErr = sAIPath->SetPathClosed( childArtHnd, isClosed);
Should I first create a group? But how to change this group to an kCompoundPathArt Element?
best reagrds
Michael

Answer 1

In the time I tried some variations and ended with this:
// creating compound Object
iErr = sAIArt->NewArt( kCompoundPathArt, kPlaceInsideOnBottom, firstLayerArtHnd, &newArtHnd);
// inserting "Masterobject" (path wich surrounds the children)
iErr = sAIArt->NewArt( kPathArt, kPlaceInsideOnBottom, newArtHnd, &childArtHnd);
// creating and inserting children
iErr = sAIArt->NewArt( kPathArt, kPlaceInsideOnBottom, newArtHnd, &childArtHnd);
iErr = sAIArt->NewArt( kPathArt, kPlaceInsideOnBottom, newArtHnd, &childArtHnd);
iErr = sAIArt->NewArt( kPathArt, kPlaceInsideOnBottom, newArtHnd, &childArtHnd);
at least the result looks like what it should. It's a pitty that there ist no sample how to do it the right way from adobe. Or have I overseen it in "SnippetRunner" in the CS4 SDK. Would be a good place. I will add a request for the CS-Next Thread taht we need codesnippets for every function of the API (like it was in one of the very first SDKs of Freehand. They had a big word dokument which provided such stuff for every function).