Get location of an annotation

As a follow up question:

I am trying to use this method as well:

I can get it to return true therefore to the best of my knowledge redactionProps is filled out.

How do I pull the data out of redactionProps ie in oder to get the value of the overlayText? or the pageNum? it also looks like this method will also get me the location of the annotation...by geting the redactQuads.

I believe that is what I am trying:

PDRedactParams redactionProps;

PDRedactionGetProps(annot, redactionProps);

ASText overlay;

overlay = redactionProps.overlayText

But it doesn't like redactionProps.overlayText...isn't that how you would reference the members?

The error that comes tells me

Error: expression must have class type

I can do this although what gets returned is null.

PDRedactParamsRec redactionProps;

PDRedactionGetProps(annot, &redactionProps);

but then when i get my redactionProps.overlayText the returned result is null? when I do have overlay text.

Yup the sub type is redact.

Because I do this to test:

if(PDAnnotGetSubtype(annot) == ASAtomFromString("Redact") and it goes into the if statment

And when I do this atom = PDAnnotGetSubtype(annot);

ptr = (char *) ASAtomGetString(atom);

sprintf(buf, "The subtype is %s", ptr);

AVAlertNot(buf);

returns the ptr as Redact.

An Update:

As above the PDAnnotGetSubtype returns the subtype as Redact so it should indeed be a Redaction annotation.

My PDRedactionGetProps(annot, redactionProps); ;returns false

My PDRedactionGetProps(annot, &redactionProps); also returns false

My question is why doesn't this work.  Is it something wrong with my PDF.  I just create a blank PDF.  Then I go to Advanced -> Redaction- > Mark for redaction and draw my box somewhere on the page and give it an overlay text and then save the PDF.

I then run my plugin against this PDF and the about returns false. 

Is my variable annot wrong?  I get it by going:

PDAnnot annot;

annot = PDGetAnnot(page, i2++)

Full code is this:

#include "PDExpT.h"

#include "PIHeaders.h"

#include "redax.h"

#include <functional>

#include <iostream>

void RedaxReports( TCHAR * path ) {

     PDDoc myPDDoc = getDocument(path);

     PDPage page;

     ASInt32 i,i2;

     PDAnnot annot;

     char* ptr;

     char buf[200];

     ASAtom atom;

     //Iterate through the PDF document page by page

     for (i = 0; i < PDDocGetNumPages(myPDDoc); i ++)

     {

          //Get each page within the document

          page = PDDocAcquirePage(myPDDoc, i);

          //Get each annotation on the page

          for (i2 = 0; i2 < PDPageGetNumAnnots(page); i2++)

          {

               //Get a specific annotation

               annot = PDPageGetAnnot(page,i2);

               if (PDAnnotIsValid(annot))

               {

                    //Display subtype information about the annotation

                    if(PDAnnotGetSubtype(annot) == ASAtomFromString("Redact")){

                         atom = PDAnnotGetSubtype(annot);

                         //Cast the ASAtom object to a character pointer

                         ptr = (char*) ASAtomGetString(atom);

                         sprintf(buf, "The annotation’s subtype is %s", ptr);

                         AVAlertNote (buf);

                         try{

                              PDRedactParamsRec  redactionProps;                     //Have also tried PDRedactParams redactionProps

                              if(PDRedactionGetProps(annot, &redactionProps)){     //Then put PDRedactionGetProps(annot, redactionProps) still returns false

                                   sprintf(buf, "Returns True");

                                   AVAlertNote (buf);

                              }

                              else

                              {

                                   sprintf(buf, "Returns False");

                                   AVAlertNote (buf);

                              }

                         }

                         catch (std::exception &cException){

                              AVAlertNote("ERROR");

                              AVAlertNote (cException.what());

                         }

                    }

               }

           }

     }

}//RedaxReports

Sorry thought the rest would be simple but alas another question relating to the initial question about the location of the box.

How do I use the redactQuads? and numQuads members?

More specially get the data out of the redactQuads.

ASFixedQuad *rect;

rect = redactionProps.redactQuads;

Im trying to print the coordinate sets.

But I can't access the members of rect? ie rect.bl