setting variables from within a custom TemplateDirectiveModel

Hi,

I have a TemplateDirectiveModel which renders its body - pretty straightforward.

            body.render(env.getOut());

Now, what I'd need is to push variables to be used by this body. I've tried the following, before calling body.render:
            //env.setLocalVariable("myVar", new SimpleScalar("local!"));
            env.setVariable("myVar", new SimpleScalar("regular!"));
            env.setGlobalVariable("myVar", new SimpleScalar("global!"));

.. to no avail. Am I missing something, or is there something else I should be looking at ? I'm not too keen on using loopVars, because in this case, the user of my directive shouldn't even know about the variable i'm trying to push - and here comes my use case: I need to share some information from this directive to other (custom) directives which are being used in the body of the former.

Any idea or suggestion ?

Cheers,

-greg

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