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[Karl Gaize <>]

All iterator/circulator classes have pointer de-reference operators 
IIRC, you should just be able to:

vertex_iterator *iter = vertices_begin();
vertex_handle hVertex = *iter;

Vic

J. Jin wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I want to know whether there is a general way to convert an
> iterator/circulator to a handle.
>
> Consider the following example.
> I want to traverse in a mesh with type Triangulation_data_structure_2 for
> some vertex in a breadth first search manner.
> I start with a vertex(suppose I have its handle), so I can use circulators
> to check all its neighbors.
> But... here is the problem. How can I continue?
> The method incident_vertices needs an input of type Vertex_handle, but what
> I got is of type Vertex_circulator.
>
> So what is the right way to do?
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> James
>
>