[CLOSED] Cannot convert from 'Ext.Net.Label' to 'Ext.Net.Component'

[zfreeman]

In a 1.X version of a project I had some code where I create two lists of components:

List<Component> leftComponents = new List<Component>();
List<Component> rightComponents = new List<Component>();

Then I go through and add various components to these lists.
For example:

leftComponents.Add(new Label(setting.name));
leftComponents.Add(new TextField(tconfig));

After converting to 2.2, I am getting the following error when trying to add these to the lists:
"Cannot convert from 'Ext.Net.Label' to 'Ext.Net.Component'"

Is there a different type other than Component that I could use to still be able to do something like this?

[Baidaly]

Hello!

You should use ComponentBase:

List<ComponentBase> leftComponents = new List<ComponentBase>();
List<ComponentBase> rightComponents = new List<ComponentBase>();

[ViDom]

Hello!

You should use ComponentBase:

List<ComponentBase> leftComponents = new List<ComponentBase>();
List<ComponentBase> rightComponents = new List<ComponentBase>();

Or AbstractComponent works as well.

[zfreeman]

Thanks! This takes care of my posted issue, however further down I then add these Component (now ComponentBase) lists to two form panels (named, fittingly "leftSide" and "rightSide"):

leftSide.Add(buildContainer(leftComponents));
rightSide.Add(buildContainer(rightComponents));

When I attempt to do this I get the following errors:
Cannot convert from 'System.Collections.Generic.List<Ext.Net.Component Base>' to 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<Ext.Net.Co mponent>'
and
The best overloaded method match for 'control.buildContainer(System.Collections.Generic .IEnumerable<Ext.Net.Component>)' has some invalid arguments

Here's how I ended up addressing this, on the off chance that someone else runs into the same issues...

List<Component> leftComponentConvert = new List<Component>(leftComponents.Cast<Component>());
List<Component> rightComponentConvert = new List<Component>(rightComponents.Cast<Component>());
leftSide.Add(buildContainer(leftComponentConvert));
rightSide.Add(buildContainer(rightComponentConvert));

[zfreeman]

Actually that doesn't do the trick... I still get that same original error when I convert this back to a Component list and try to add it to the FormPanel:
"Cannot convert from 'Ext.Net.Label' to 'Ext.Net.Component'"

Any ideas on how to do this with ComponentBase lists?

leftSide.Add(buildContainer(leftComponents));
rightSide.Add(buildContainer(rightComponents));

I get these two errors right now:
Cannot convert from 'System.Collections.Generic.List<Ext.Net.Component Base>' to 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<Ext.Net.Co mponent>'
and
The best overloaded method match for 'control.buildContainer(System.Collections.Generic .IEnumerable<Ext.Net.Component>)' has some invalid arguments

[Baidaly]

Try to Cast them to Component using Select:

leftSide.AddRange(leftComponents.Select(i => (Component)i));

[zfreeman]

Try to Cast them to Component using Select:

leftSide.AddRange(leftComponents.Select(i => (Component)i));

This allows the project to build (using Add rather than AddRange - I don't think AddRange exists for FormPanel) but then when I actually run the page I get the same error:

Unable to cast object of type 'Ext.Net.Label' to type 'Ext.Net.Component'.

And the error's being thrown right here:

leftSide.Add(leftComponents.Select(i => (Component)i));

[Daniil]

Hi,

I do not understand the problem well.

A FormPanel's Add method takes AbstractComponents. Ext.Net.Label inherits AbstractComponent in its chain. So, it is possible to pass a Label into a FormPanel's Add method.

Ext.Net.Label should be cast to Component, because it doesn't inherit it.

If the problem persists, please provide a simplified test case.

[zfreeman]

Turns out I didn't need to convert. It was the "buildContainer" part of the code that I no longer needed after using AbstractComponent instead of Component:

leftSide.Add(leftComponents);
rightSide.Add(rightComponents);

Thanks to everyone for the help.