It's been a while but I recall that you may have to save both programs  
after making changes to the common my
MyBlock.

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On Oct 25, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Eric Palmer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Team 956 has several missions that share common portions of the nxt
> programs.  To simplify  the programs and ensure consistency they  
> decided to
> use the my blocks features of the nxt software.  But they had lots of
> problems using the my blocks. It seems that the my blocks don't retain
> changes made to them across multiple programs that call them.
>
> I'm going to test these more myself and see what is going on but  
> what we
> observed was
>
> Program A calls my block 'xyz'
> Program B calls my block 'xyz'
> My block 'xyz' is the same my block in both cases.
>
> When they open Program A and click on my block xyz and change one of  
> the
> settings in one of the steps xyz this change sometimes download to  
> the robot
> and works and sometimes it does not.  But it does not translate into a
> change in how Program B works even when program b is downloaded again.
>
> Like I said I will test this with some simple custom my blocks that  
> just use
> the display so that I can see what is occurring.
>
> Anyone else experiencing this and any advice on how to make these  
> work?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Eric Palmer
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>
> FLL 2009 Team 956 Coach
>
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