lcEntGetDist

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Retrieves a point on entity, nearest to given off-curve point.
The function works with the following entity types: Line, Polyline, Arc, Circle

double lcEntGetDist (    HANDLE hEnt,    double X,    double Y,    double* pX2,    double* pY2,    double* pDist  );

Parameters

hEnt
	Handle to an entity.
X Y
	Off-curve point.
pX2 pY2
	Pointers to variables that will receive coordinates of the found on-curve point (which is nearest to X,Y)
pDist
	Pointer to variable that will receive the distance from beginning of a polyline to found point.

Return Value

Distance between given point (X,Y) and found point (X2,Y2).

See Also

Code sample,   lcEntGetPoint