Conference utrop1::lnx_apo

462.0. "Copy object and clearing one or to attributes" by STKHLM::KALIX (Carl-Johan "Kalix" Bergstr�m 876-7036) Fri Feb 07 1997 17:02

Hi

I have an object class with registrartion id attribute where I need to put
instead of copy the value when the object is copied.

I found out that the method CopyObjectBase is responsible for copying the the
attributes, so I solved my problem by:

super::CopyObjectBase(obj, parent, name, versnr, cell)
obj.MyComp:MyAttribute = nil;
obj.CommitTransaction(); // To make the RefreshObject use nil value
parent.RefreshObject(); // To get the attribute value Cleared in List Pres.


This works, but there is to problems:

1. This is not allowed according to the help file. CopyObjectBase is internal
only

2. It is not so good that the CopyObjectBase is doing a commit transaction so
that the new object already has the attribute value it shouldn't have for a
short while before it is reset to nil by my method.

Any comments to this issue?

Any suggestions to alternate solutions

regards
Kalix