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Hello,

I'm currently in the process of converting my old VB6 applications that I have been using to control my Xpression-projects into C#.

As I'm still trying to wrestle myself into the new C#-syntax I did come across some strange behaviour.

It seems I can't reference a textfield as being an XpTextObject. I can reference it as an xpBaseObject but I don't want that because I can't access the Text-property and change the textfield.

Even when I look in the Intellisense it wants me to declare the object as an xpBaseObject

bool.IxpScene.getObjectByName(string Name, out xpBaseObject BaseObject)

So what am I doing something wrong?

*** EDIT ***

Are there actually any C# examples available somewhere? I have the feeling that I'm going to have some other issues in the future as well

Best regards,

Kenneth

In VB.net, I do a ctype to convert the xpbaseobject to a xptextobject...

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Hi Kenneth,

C# does not let you pass a subclass like xpTextObject to a function requiring an xpBaseObject. VB.Net DOES allow you to do this.. It's just a language thing.. You can however typecast from one to the other..

Here is a code snippet:



public void SetTextObject(xpScene Scene, String textobj, String value)

{

xpBaseObject xpBase;

xpTextObject xpText;

if (Scene == null) return;

if (Scene.ObjectExistsByName(textobj) && Scene.GetObjectByName(textobj, out xpBase))

{

xpText = (xpTextObject)xpBase;

xpText.Text = value;

}

}



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Thanks Brian for your help!

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