user.setVariable and getApi().setUserVariables

jpardoe · Post by **jpardoe** » 02 Nov 2010, 05:40

When doing user.setVariable() does it notify all other players or does that only occur when I do getApi().setUserVariables?

tpenn · Post by **tpenn** » 02 Nov 2010, 14:02

My experience with the beta was that any time you could do something through an api call you should. It seemed that often the other methods were not intended for external use. There was some discussion of not exposing such methods to us, but I'm not sure where the SFS guys are on that.

If I remember correctly, I did discover at one point that in order for the notifications to take place, the api call needed to be used. Either way though, it's just a good practice to always use them when possible.

Post by **Lapo** » 04 Nov 2010, 06:06

You always need to call the API functions. If you operate directly on the User or Room objects you won't get any updates.

jpardoe · Post by **jpardoe** » 04 Nov 2010, 06:20

Great, thanks guys!