Tracking And Deleting Objects Via Custom Properties?

[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:

> 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 custom property?
> 
> Here's essentially what I'm trying to do:
> 
> on mouseUp
>   put the buttonList of current card into tButtons
>   put the short name of last btn into tTargetButton
>   if  tTargetButton  is among the lines of tBullets then
>      delete the foundline of tButtons
>      answer tTargetButton & "Button has been deleted."
>      end if
> end mouseUp
> 
> How can I delete the name of an object listed in the custom property?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> John Patten
> SUSD
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