gen (event-driven): get value of "hot" and/or "interval" attribute?

Is it possible to get the current value of the "hot" / "interval" attributes from inside codebox?

I've got some event-driven code where it's handy to switch the values for those on the fly, but right now I'm passing redundant messages to [gen] in order to both set the attribute values and let my internal gen code know what those values are... which seems silly.

Thanks,
Tyler