create schematic warning markers

IC6.1.6

RHEL5.5

Virtuoso Schematic Editor

I have some code which gets triggered by schematic check and save.  If the code doesn't like something about one of the instances I want to create a warning and add a warning marker.

I have tried

rectId = dbCreateRect(cvId list("marker" "warning") instId->bBox)
;; add appropriate properties to box for proper marker browsing
dbCreateProp(rectId "schDisplay" "string" "Warning Reason")

dbCreateProp(rectId "schCreatedBy" "string" "WarningOwner")
dbCreateProp(rectId "schMarker" "string" "Warning")

and that seemed to work but with IC6 I no longer can see the warning reason when I search for markers.  Also I'd rather use the select box instead of bounding box.

Then I tried:

geCreateMarker(instId, "warning", "WarningOwner", "WarningReason", "WarningReason")

This works in IC616, I can see the reason in the list of markers, and also it uses the select box.  However, I messes up the last extraction time relative to the last modified time so I can't netlist if there is a warning.

I'm invoking the skill code via

schRegPostCheckTrigger('my_skill_procedure)

At the end of my procedure I'm also making a call to

schUpdateUserSRCErrorAndWarn(my_err_count, my_warn_count)

My questions are:

1)  what is the "right" way to add warning markers to the schematic?

2) how can I access a select box for an instance?

3) while we are at it, what is the "right" way to add a warning marker to a layout?

Thanks

-Dan