Binding to Custom Component Methods

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Note that when you get down in the weeds, various Swing methods that might yield a component for you will deliver it shorn of its custom methods and custom properties. The generic solution is presumably planned for a future version of Ignition, but the current version of Simulation Aids installs the necessary shim to prevent this from happening. See the discussion here:

Transaction groups triggered expression item updating when trigger is false

Interesting. That means custom methods behave like custom properties in java-to-jython conversions. So, Java objects have to be wrapped in jython shells to be used within the jython interpreter. The standard java-to-jython shell exposes the methods as-is and also takes any methods that fit the NetBeans getter/setter naming conventions and exposes those as the corresponding properties. Ignition overrides the standard conversions so that its components have their custom properties and methods …