Any idea on what is wrong here?
Actually yes! That info helps a lot. This is not the first weird little quirk of using CesiumJS in Typescript and probably won’t be the last. I actually found exactly this same issue previously reported in github: Typescript errors when setting color properties of various Cesium objects · Issue #9667 · CesiumGS/cesium · GitHub
Borrowing words from a previous comment:
These are
Property
instances, just not aMaterialProperty
, i.e.graphics.outlineColor = new ConstantProperty(Color.BLUE); graphics.outlineColor = new SampledProperty(Color);
graphics.outlineColor = Color.BLUE;
works but will result ingraphics.outlineColor
being aConstantProperty
(using implicit conversion borrowed from C#).
Changing your code to use ConstantProperty
should work and make typescript happy, see an updated sandcastle. Maybe not ideal but hopefully that works for you for now.
Longer term we’ve recently been working on improving how we generate our Types files in the first place which should hopefully make creating actual fixes for issues like these easier.