Tracking And Deleting Objects Via Custom Properties?

[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 deleteCustomProperty tObjRef,tPropSet,tProp
>   -- not sure where this comes from, it's not mine
>   -- thanks to <whoever> !
>   put the custompropertyset of tObjRef into oldPropSet
>   set the custompropertyset of tObjRef to tPropSet
>   put the customkeys of tObjRef into keysList
>   set the wholematches to true
>   put lineoffset(tProp,keysList) into propLine
>   if propLine <> 0 then
>      delete line propLine of keysList
>      set the customkeys of tObjRef to keysList
>   end if
>   set the custompropertyset of tObjRef to oldPropSet
> end deleteCustomProperty
> 
> -- Peter
> 
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
> 
> On May 29, 2012, at 10:14 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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