hmm, the plot thickens... i can't expose any base data types either.
# WARNING : Cannot set the expose type of the port to the requested value.
Application.EditExposedParamInICECompoundNode("polymsh.polymsh.ICETree.CompoundNode.testFloat1",
"testFloat1", "0", "0", "", "", 1, "", "")
this is odd for sure.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Steven Caron <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok simply putting the port group for my custom data type first on the node
> doesn't change the behavior when exposing the port to a compound as
> 'multi'... bummer.
>
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> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Raffaele Fragapane <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You might also need to add something to the compound xml or an event, I
>> have very hazy memories of work-arounds and stuff, but that was for
>> multiple ports bundled into port groups (incidentally something that JUST
>> came up at work, again, today).
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Steven Caron <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The node behaves as you would expect when you add more port instances
>>> and when it isn't inside a compound.
>>>
>>> The port is defined last, I will try and move it around, but the node is
>>> so simple I would just be putting it first. The Syflex node I referenced
>>> has the force ports in the middle. Might be onto something there
>>>
>>> My current (not completely tested) work around is to change the port
>>> definition to support an array instead of instances and put a build array
>>> node in between the custom node and the exposed port.
>>>
>>> Bummer...
>>> Steven
>>>
>>> *written with my thumbs
>>> On Mar 31, 2015 4:45 PM, "Raffaele Fragapane" <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does it work if it's outside a compound?
>>>>
>>>> I have had some issues with dynamically adding ports to groups, some of
>>>> them pretty bug smelling, but all of them, including one with custom data
>>>> types, disappear if the group with dynamic ports is the last one in the
>>>> definition. You could also try and give that a shot, but it's more of a
>>>> head in the sand workaround than a fix for anything.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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