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Build Identifier: 20110301-1815 The documentation of updateElement(Object,int) suggests that it is called only "when a previously-blank element becomes visible". Although it is not documented when an element is considered blank, I would expect that means that is was never displayed or that its parent's child count has changed. Somewhat surprisingly, calling viewer.refresh(Object) on some element causes updateElement to be called for that same element. This is surprising, since I would expect refresh should be called after changes to the element, but the viewer responds to it by asking to replace the element object altogether, which may override those changes. There seems to be no way in the API to reach the already existing element that is being refreshed inside updateElement, or even to tell whether the call is due to a missing element or due to a refresh(). Even worse, that call happens only after updateElement was called for all children, so if elements are created with a reference to their parent inside updateElement, the references in the children will be broken. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 204834 [details] Code reproducing the problem.
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