Adding a Element to a diagram

[Rossco]

Hi I am trying to add an element to a diagram using C#
I have the diagram and the element and a using the sample VB.net based code

EA.Diagram MyDiagram = MyRepository.GetCurrentDiagram();
                    EA.DiagramObject O;
                   O = MyDiagram.DiagramObjects.AddNew("l=200;r=400;t=200;b=600;", "");

I get the following error

Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to 'EA.DiagramObject'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

Any Ideas on how this should work

Regards

Ross      

[Aaron B]

Like the message from Visual Studio suggests - you need to explicitly cast the object returned from AddNew to an EA.DiagramObject type.  E.g.

EA.Diagram MyDiagram = repository.GetCurrentDiagram();
EA.DiagramObject O;
O = (EA.DiagramObject)MyDiagram.DiagramObjects.AddNew("l=200;r=400;t=200;b=600;", "");

Same principle will also apply when using other collections such as Elements, Packages, etc.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

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                   O = MyDiagram.DiagramObjects.AddNew("l=200;r=400;t=200;b=600;", "");

Hi Ross,

You need to explicitly cast the (generic) Object returned from AddNew... Thus:

O = (EA.DiagramObject)MyDiagram.DiagramObjects.AddNew("l=200;r=400;t=200;b=600;", "");

Bit of a PITA, but once you get used to it...

HTH,
Paolo

[Rossco]

Thanks guys

Oh - how easy in hindsight!