At 17:56 26.11.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>While reflecting on the matter of deleting objects from the
>timeoutList, I posed this question to myself: what if I wanted
>to delete a subset of items from a list in the case I knew
>their position _prior_ to having them deleted?
>E.g. I want to delete the items number 3, 5, 8 from a list
>of 10 items. Once the item 3 has been deleted, the item 5 became
>4 and the item 8 became 7.
<snip a long startmovie handler and a short tool handler>
Another way to avoid that sort of problems would be to perform the series
of deletions in back-to-front order; i.e. first delete item 8, next item 5
and in the end item 3. Lingo supports this approach with the
repeat with variable = startValue down to endValue
syntax.
Best regards
daniel plaenitz
http://www.lingo.de/
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