On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 05:14 PM, Igor Couto wrote:
Guess what?: it still DOES NOT DELETE!!!
What gives?
I feel like I'm overseeing something basic...
Any help GREATLY appreciated!
What you are overlooking is not that basic; it has to do with some subtle characteristics of the 'move' command.
I believe the 'move' command without "without waiting" and without "without messages" is like a 'wait with messages'. The move happens while execution freezes at that point. During the move the script of the handler is considered to be still executing.
However, an object in whose script a handler is executing, even nested in calls, cannot be deleted. It turns out that this happens. In this case, a button click is almost always executed in the middle of the move _command_, not just in the middle of the move process. It is as if the move command called the mouseUp.
This can also cause very strange behavior and strange delays when you have multiple objects doing this kind of thing.
Here is my recommendation: Consider changing your cycling handler to the moveStopped message and use "without waiting". The exact method depends on your goal. Here is an illustration off the top of my head and without testing:
******
local moving = "false" local direction = "300"
on mouseUp startMoving end mouseUp
on startMoving
if not moving then
put 300 into direction
move me relative direction,0 in 15 seconds without waiting
put "true" into moving
end if
end startMovingon stopMoving put "false" into moving stop moving me end stopMoving
on moveStopped
if moving then
put - direction into direction
move me relative direction,0 in 15 seconds without waiting
end if
end moveStopped*****
The delete button script would be something like this:
****
on mouseUp send "stopMoving" to button "animatedBtn" delete button "animatedBtn" end MouseUp
****
This might take some fiddling to make work.
Note that in this style, a handler executes for only a very short time. I think that this is a good guideline for avoiding this kind of trouble.
Dar
****************************************
Dar Scott Consulting
http://www.swcp.com/dsc/
Programming Services
****************************************_______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
