deleting an object as a consequence of its handler

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Thu Sep 26 12:41:35 EDT 2013


As you propose, "send in" x time should do it (might be safer to allow a
few millisecs unless this command appears at the end of your handler).

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 9/26/13 9:36 AM, "Dr. Hawkins" <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

>I have a section where, as a consequence of a closefield, it makes sense
>to
>just wipe the screen and generate it again.
>
>While the closeField handler is in the stack (actually, a button for
>behavior), this results in an error as the field, part of one of the
>groups
>getting deleted, is associated with the running script.
>
>What is the best way to deal with this?
>
>I could send in 0ms I suppose, but might another message in the queue jump
>ahead if that happens?
>
>Pass the closefield somehow (but it's already a stack script, and the main
>stack would have to do some checking to figure out where the closefield
>was
>coming from?).
>
>"set the expendable of the target to true" ?   :)
>
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