Converting ResourcePtr to MaterialPtr

[shellcoder]

Hello, I had been using Ogre 1.8 but after upgrading our project to 1.9 this code no longer seems to work:

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		Ogre::ResourcePtr ptrResource = MaterialManager::getSingleton().getByName(m_pRefTextBGParamDef->strMaterialName);
		if(ptrResource.isNull())
			ptrResource = MaterialManager::getSingleton().getByName(CThemeManager::Get().GetTextBGMaterialName());
		if(!ptrResource.isNull())
		{
			MaterialPtr ptrMaterial = (MaterialPtr)ptrResource; // This one

VS 2012 generates this type cast error: Error 1 error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'Ogre::Resource *' to 'Ogre::Material *'

And I searched the documentation but couldn't find any relevant method to do so. Is there any method that I could use? Thanks

[scrawl]

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      MaterialPtr ptrMaterial = MaterialManager::getSingleton().getByName(m_pRefTextBGParamDef->strMaterialName);
      if(ptrMaterial.isNull())
         ptrMaterial = MaterialManager::getSingleton().getByName(CThemeManager::Get().GetTextBGMaterialName());

MaterialManager::getByName does return a MaterialPtr, so no casting is necessary.

If you had a ResourcePtr, you would cast it like this:

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ResourcePtr resourcePtr = ...;
MaterialPtr materialPtr = resourcePtr.staticCast<Material>();

[shellcoder]

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      MaterialPtr ptrMaterial = MaterialManager::getSingleton().getByName(m_pRefTextBGParamDef->strMaterialName);
      if(ptrMaterial.isNull())
         ptrMaterial = MaterialManager::getSingleton().getByName(CThemeManager::Get().GetTextBGMaterialName());

MaterialManager::getByName does return a MaterialPtr, so no casting is necessary.

If you had a ResourcePtr, you would cast it like this:

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ResourcePtr resourcePtr = ...;
MaterialPtr materialPtr = resourcePtr.staticCast<Material>();

Thanks but after reverting back to 1.8 it seems to work again