[Suggestion] sysReload

[Drako Slyith]

In many of my mods I'm making it would be wonderful to be able to reload an object periodically so random numbers are reloaded and changed. It would be a very helpful. Thanks!

It could be used as:
sysReload- which reloads everything, or
objReload- which reloads the object in question

[Prophet]

My suggestion would be to manually add code to reload the variables that you want. I can't see a way to find every variable placed on an object and 'refresh' it, sometimes you don't want certain ones refreshed, and most would end up being the same value anyways.

One way to accomplish this refresh would be to make an event on the object in question, in that event, place code to refresh/recalculate only the variables you need and you can call that event from the console whenever needed.

(objFireEvent obj event)

To simplify it even further, add a global helper function to fire the event when necessary:

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<globals>
  (setq refreshVars (lambda (obj)
    (block (target)
       (if obj (setq target obj) (setq target (objgettarget gplayership))
       (objFireEvent target 'RefreshEvent)
    )
  )
</globals>

This requries the object in question have an event called "RefreshEvent" that will do what you're asking, which I can't really help you with without knowing more about your code.

[Drako Slyith]

Ok. I was just trying to make a stargate that sends you to a random location which is different each time you enter it. I wanted to be able to have the random topology refresh every few seconds.