Force Refresh of Objects using LIBRARYGLOBAL

[Denny Wong]

Hi all, I have a very simple question:

Is there a standard way of forcing objects to read their LIBRARYGLOBALs again? It seems that upon changing the active MVO, I need to CMD+T an object to force it to recalculate, in order to fetch the new settings from MVO. This slightly defeats the whole purpose of having library settings in the MVO. Am I missing something?

I have even tried reloading the library – but it seems like all calculations are cached and thus no re-calculations occured.

I am still on AC19 if that matters.

Many thanks in advance for your input, much appreciated.

[Dominika Bobály]

Denny,

first, let’s assume you did not try to save the returned value of the MVO request in a parameter in any way, because that may cause problems like you described.
Here is a tutorial on how to correctly implement an MVO object, and how to link it to a placeable object via LIBRARYGLOBALS request.
Here is another article about the topic, in general.

In case the articles do not give you a solution to your problem, we can discuss this further.

Dominika Bobály
Product Manager
GRAPHISOFT SE

[Denny Wong]

Thank you Dominika, I was feeding it back into a parameter of the object as a quick way of debugging and I think that triggered a loop of some description. Breaking the loop solved the problem.

Many thanks again.

[Dominika Bobály]

Debugging MVO returned values: we usually use text output commands (text2), to check on it, or you can try PRINTing it into the report window.
Never should it be stored in a parameter.
Glad you could handle the issue.

Dominika Bobály
Product Manager
GRAPHISOFT SE

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