How to force client update of prim parameters?

I do have a rotation script in a child prim with pretty weird behaviour. Basically it's a script which toggles rotation of a globe on a stand. The rotation is OK, but starting and stopping is the issue.

The following script sits in the child prim (the globe):

integer rotate(integer seconds) {

    llTargetOmega(-llRot2Fwd(llGetLocalRot()), TWO_PI / (float) seconds, 1.0);

}


default
{
    state_entry()
    {
	llWhisper(0, "Stopped");
	rotate(2000000000);
    }

    touch_end(integer num_detected)
    {
        state spin_slow;
    }
}

state spin_slow
{
    state_entry()
    {
	llWhisper(0, "Slow spin");
        rotate(60);
    }

    touch_end(integer num_detected)
    {
        state default;
    }
}

Now the problem:

* After editing the script everyting is fine in the original object: The globe starts and stops whenever touched.
* When I rez the object, touching also works (the messages are whispered), but the rotation only becomes visible after I right-click the object and deselect it again. The SL client only seems to update the displayed rotation after selecting and deselecting the object.

My question: Is there any way how I can force the client to update parameters, including omega, such that it is really displayed? I already tried calling llSetAlpha() and llSetScale() from inside the rotate() procedure to force such an update, but without luck.

Not sure if this is your problem or not, but if you have an object selected with the Edit menu or a Right click menu open, then the Omega rotation will not display for you. I don't think that you can make them update, because the animation is stopped so that the person can interact with the object.

Yes, I know about selecting stopping the rotation. I guess this effect is also the reason why the new rotation rate is then updated after selecting.

Anyway, I found a kludge to fix the problem:

rotate(integer seconds)
{
    vector scale0 = llGetScale();
    vector scale1 = scale0 * 0.999;
    
    llSetScale(scale1);
    llTargetOmega(-llRot2Fwd(llGetLocalRot()), TWO_PI / (float) seconds, 1.0);
    llSetScale(scale0);
}

It's not pretty, but it works.

I use llSetText("",<1,1,1>,1) to force an update on my objects. it works well with animated textures that get stretched out for unapparent reasons too.