setValue does not work for Variable Primitive

[herzogrh]

Currently, it does not seem possible to set Values for Agent Variables programmatically as detailed here. It seems to work well for eg. Stocks inside the Agent, but for Variables the following error occurs ([Height] being a variable primitive):

After looking into the code, it seems that there is no specific setValue function specified for variable primitives. Because of that, the default error is thrown.

[scottfr]

Hi Rico,

setValue() only works with primitives that are stateful, which are the Stock and State primitives. You could trying using a Stock instead of a Variable for your Height.

[herzogrh]

Hi Scott, thanks for the quick reply! Both work, but in case I want to let's say store a piece of text in an agent's attribute, calling setValue on a Stock primitive with a String (which works just fine) seems a little counterintuitive.