Error with custom method call from context menu

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Transaction groups triggered expression item updating when trigger is false

Ok, so I’ve been down the rabbit hole and found Ignition’s (undocumented) PyComponentWrapper. I haven’t deciphered it enough to be sure, but it seems to be invoked only for particular situations, based on the string constants in the class file (like “getComponent” and “getComponents”). To play with this, I constructed a conversion adapter like so: public class PyComponentAdapter implements PyObjectAdapter { public PyComponentAdapter() {} @Override public boolean canAdapt(Object jObj) { …

TL/DR: Install my free Simulation Aids module to get reliable jython behavior with components no matter what java methods delivered them.