Updating display of KSPField contents

[LethalDose]

I posted this question about a week ago in the generic "Developers helping developers" thread, but it didn't get a response so I'm re-posting here.

For some reason, variables with the KSPfield attribute are only displaying their initialized valuesin the in-flight GUI, regardless of what updates the variable's value receives. How can you force the part GUI menu to update the displayed field values? This problem is occurring with string, double, float, and bool data types (I know either float or doubles aren't supported by KSPField, just can't remember which).

Again, I've seen this in question asked in several other places, but I haven't seen it answered.

Any help is appreciated.

[stupid_chris]

Doubles aren't supported by KSPField.

As for that, I've never had problem with the display. RealChute uses the display of a float for the number of repacks available and there was never any problem with the updating of the number.

Could you show a snippet of code or an example of what you're trying to do?

[LethalDose]

<sigh>

So, I was paring down the code to just be the parts that were giving me trouble, and somewhere in the rewrite I made it work (the KSPFields are updating properly). Building things back up, I think the issue isn't with the KSPFields, but with the calling the method: this.vessel.checkLanded().

The persistence file lists the vessel as "landed = true", but this method is returning "false", and when I lower the part that has the custom module so that it touches the ground, this.part.checkLanded is returning true... which is weird. I guess I need help understanding how this.vessel.checkLanded() works.

Edited February 3, 2014 by LethalDose

[stupid_chris]

Try using vessel.Landed instead?

[LethalDose]

okay, that worked.