[CONNECT NET] How to transform or move TextElement

From what I understand, when you apply the transform, it loses its reference to the original element.
Try storing the ElementRef BEFORE modifying the element using elementRef = element.GetNativeElementRef();
then, when you are ready to replace it, retrieve the original element by using the element ref that you stored 
originalElement = Element.GetFromElementRef(elementRef);

then use element.ReplaceInModel(originalElement)

How do you declare oElement?  Is that a TextElement?

Where does oElement come from: do you read it from a DGN model or is it a new TextElement?

Unknown said:

I create a command class with DgnElementSetTool

Where did you find DgnElementSetTool?  I don't see it in the DgnPlatformNet documentation.

Hi Jon,

I've found DgnElementSetTool on C# CONNECT SDK examples (p.e. ManagedToolsExample). I want to create a tool to select a single element (any type) and move it:

Public Class CommandExample

Inherits Bentley.DgnPlatformNET.DgnElementSetTool

...

Is there any other way to do it? Do you think DgnElementSetTool is the problem?

many thanks,

Unknown said:

Is there any other way to do it? Do you think DgnElementSetTool is the problem?

The problem with DgnElementSetTool, and one or two others that appear in the SDK examples, is that they don't appear in the documentation.  Consequently, we don't know if they are formally supported, introduced illegally into the SDK examples, or perhaps they exist only in some pre-release build of MicroStation CONNECT available  to Bentley Systems internal developers but never published.

The problem is not with DgnElementSetTool, as I am able to reproduce it by grabbing the selected elements with the SelectionSetManager...  

However, going back to my suggestion seems to take care of the problem.

            foreach (Element selectedElement in selectedElements)
            {
                IntPtr elementRef = selectedElement.GetNativeElementRef();
                

                TransformInfo tinfo = new TransformInfo(DTransform3d.FromTranslation(1000,1000,1000));
                selectedElement.ApplyTransform(tinfo);
                
                Element originalElement = Element.GetFromElementRef(elementRef);
                selectedElement.ReplaceInModel(originalElement);

            }