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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Le jeudi 30 septembre 2010 15:42:46, Vani Murarka a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to use DoIntersect_3 of the Spherical Kernel in the following
> way:
> 
> typedef
> CGAL::Exact_spherical_kernel_3 EK;
> 
> // irrelevant code skipped
> 
> bool eIntersect = EK::DoIntersect_3(lArc, c);
> lArc is a Line_arc_3 and c is a Circle_3 both under the
> Exact_spherical_kernel_3.
> 
> However, I am getting the following compilation error
> 'DoIntersect_3' : is not a member of
> 'CGAL::Spherical_kernel_3<LinearKernel,AlgebraicKernel>'
> 
> Any idea what I am doing wrong? As far as I can make out from the
> documentation, DoIntersect_3 is a member of the Spherical Kernel.

No. Kernel::DoIntersect_3 is the documentation of a model.

The real predicate is Kernel::Do_intersect_3. And that is a functor.

Use it like that:

EK::Do_intersect_3 do_intersect; // create the functor object...
bool eIntersect = do_intersect(lArc, c); // ...and use it

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
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R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/