Backwards compatibility of commands for developer use

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Shinya O asked Sep 15 2023 at 1:26 AM Jason Lightfoot edited Sep 25 2023 at 5:46 PM

Backwards compatibility of commands for developer use

Hi,

The following article mentions applicationcommand() as follows:

The command applicationcommand() is designed to be used and maintained by FlexSim developers for FlexSim developers. The various options that are available are subject to change in future versions.

https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/29913/how-to-know-all-the-command-that-applicationcomman.html

Will this also change in the future for all commands described as "For developer use" in the command reference? Isn't there backward compatibility?

https://docs.flexsim.com/en/23.0/Reference/CodingInFlexSim/CommandReference/Commands.html

Thanks in advance.

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FlexSim 23.0.11

commands backward compatibility

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Answer 1 · 2023-09-25T17:06:11Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Sep 25 2023 at 5:06 PM Jason Lightfoot edited Sep 25 2023 at 5:46 PM

Mostly commands, methods and functions in the user space will be backward compatible. Sometimes you'll see in the release notes that something changes the behavior from previous versions with a note on backward compatibility.

As various posts on the forum already indicate - developer tools may change in the future so you should not use them extensively through out the model as a future change would mean potentially a lot of work updating the model. Instead - try to centralize such calls in user commands or object process flow custom code activities, then if something breaks you only need update it in one place.

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