Tracking And Deleting Objects Via Custom Properties?

2012-05-29 Thread JOHN PATTEN
Hi All… I have a script that is storing objects via their name in a custom property of the card. I'm trying to delete one of the objects by checking if the object name is 'among' the 'list' of items. This works fine. However I can delete the name of the object from the list of objects in the

Re: Tracking And Deleting Objects Via Custom Properties?

2012-05-29 Thread Mike Bonner
Probably something like this would work. on mouseUp put the buttonList of current card into tButtons put the short name of last btn into tTargetButton put lineoffset(tTargetButton,tButtons) into tOffset -- get the matching line number in tButtons if tOffset 0 then -- if there was a

Re: Tracking And Deleting Objects Via Custom Properties?

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Hibbert
John, You can't edit the list of items in a custom property directly, but you can put the list of items in the custom property into a variable, delete the item from the variable then set the custom property back to the modified variable. HTH Paul On 2012-05-29, at 7:14 PM, JOHN PATTEN wrote:

Re: Tracking And Deleting Objects Via Custom Properties?

2012-05-29 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
You could use this, something I saved along the way. I *think* it's from the stdLib by Ken Ray and Richard Gaskin, but I've lost track. on deleteCustomProperty tObjRef,tPropSet,tProp -- not sure where this comes from, it's not mine -- thanks to whoever ! put the custompropertyset of

Re: Tracking And Deleting Objects Via Custom Properties?

2012-05-29 Thread JOHN PATTEN
Thanks Peter, Paul, and Mike! I forgot about the lineOffset… :) Cheers! John Patten SUSD On May 29, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: You could use this, something I saved along the way. I *think* it's from the stdLib by Ken Ray and Richard Gaskin, but I've lost track. on