topic Objects backsaved to 20 with 'Cube 22' calls still work in 20, how? in Libraries & objects

Objects backsaved to 20 with 'Cube 22' calls still work in 20, how?

Ignacio Azpiazu — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:02:29 GMT

I have some very simple objects embedded in an AC22 project which I backsaved to 20, and still show as loaded in 20, and their placed instances look perfectly OK. Those objects have autoscripts with calls to 'Cube 22', so I checked out their scripts and they still show 'Cube 22' (I had figured they would read 'Cube 20' after backsaving, or show missing as dots if they still read '22'). Anybody understands how is it that the thing still works?

Re: Objects backsaved to 20 with 'Cube 22' calls still work in 20, how?

Barry Kelly — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 01:00:51 GMT

From my understanding, although we CALL an object by name in a script, Archicad secretly stores this as the GUID of the object.
For example you can CALL an object, then change the name of the called object file (but not by 'save as' because that changes the GUID) and the calling object will still work.

So the name is really irrelevant, but convenient.

Barry.

Re: Objects backsaved to 20 with 'Cube 22' calls still work in 20, how?

Lingwisyer — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 01:39:42 GMT

So though it is calling "Cube 22", it is actually calling a version of "Cube 22" that has been migrated backwards.

Ling.