[Closed] Subdivide bug in function or misuse?

Hey everyone, I am having a bit of trouble modifying the ‘size’ attribute on a subdivide modifier through maxscript, in certian situations.

When trying to access the attribute when executing the code in a function, it doesn’t catch whatever changes I apply to it, however in just a vanilla script, it does work.

This will make a plane, apply a subdivide, and set the subdivision size correctly.

max modify mode
obj = plane() 
addmodifier obj (subdivide())
obj.modifiers[#Subdivide].size = .5

This however, will not. Setting other vars like the ‘manualupdate’ however, do work.

function myFunction =
	(
	max modify mode
	obj = plane() 
	addmodifier obj (subdivide())
	obj.modifiers[#Subdivide].size = .5
	)
myFunction()

However manually selecting the mesh and updating the modifier that way does work, like this

function myFunction =
	(
	max modify mode
	obj = plane() 
	addmodifier obj (subdivide())
	select obj 
 	$.modifiers[#Subdivide].size = 0.5
	)
myFunction()

Unfortunately neither of the working versions are an acceptable way to make this change in my script, because I would like to keep this in a function for easy use, and with the selection, it causes the ui to flicker, and have a very significant slowdown in speed, when doing this across multiple objects.

Am I doing something wrong here, or has anyone else encountered this issue?

Thanks for any help