Delete and object from script within the object?

[Björnke von Gierke]

send "deleteTheImage" && myImage to this stack in 0 seconds

On 03 Dec 2014, at 22:57, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:

> Folks:
> I’m trying to delete an image from a script within that image  LC doesn’t like that because the script in the object hasn’t finished yet.
> 
> —the image script is:
> on mouseUp
>   put the name of me into myImage
>   deleteTheImage myImage"
> end mouseUp
> 
> —In the stack script
> on deleteTheImage imageName
>    delete image imageName
> end deleteTheImage
> 
> The command failed because the “end mouseUp” has not executed and LC won’t delete the object where a script is running.
> 
> How should I approach this? Is there a command to dispatch a message after a short delay? I know there must be, I just can’t find it.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill
> 
> William A. Prothero
> http://es.earthednet.org/
> 
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