Selecting shapes contained in/inside shape

Hi,

I am looking for a way to select all shapes contained within another shape.

I have a list of candidate shapes and I want to test to see which ones are inside a polygon shape (in this case an annular gate polygon).

So far I have:

geSelectArea(window_id gate_shape~>points gate_shape~>objType)
gatecont_shapes=geGetSelectedSet(working_cellview)
geDeselectAll(window_id)

I don't really want to select and deselect as this might clear selections that have already been made. Is there a way to do this outside of the graphic editor suite of commands?

Another issue with this is that it selects everything within the polygon (not just a candidate shape). I could filter the list, but given the above issue (selection in GE), it's somewhat a secondary problem.

Thanks.

Art