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How is this connected to keyDown??

It's not... I just said the keyDown command doesn't work sometimes when I click on a button (the result is delete it) until I click on a button again.

Hi, thanks for your answers
Your command starts: "on destroyButton" but closes with "end destroySmiley" (so I would imagine it doesn't even compile properly...)
Sorry it's a rewriting problem.
You may, as you said, be finding the problem is because of clicking with the mouse just before the time ...

Why do you have two "delete" handlers here?
One for delete the buttons when they are clicked and the other for delete them after a maximum displaying time.
Does it help if you change "keydown" to "keyup"?
No I've already tried it :wink:

After some tests I'm sure the "delete" command is the ...

Hmm, I notice something can help you.
The problem happen when I delete the button being clicked.
There are two way to delete a button:
on mouseUp
if the short name of the target contains "button" then
delete the target
end if
end mouseUp

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on destroyButton ...

Hi again :D ,
I have another script problem I really don't understand and do my project falling behind.

on keyDown myKey
answer "test"
end keyDown
This doesn't always work...
I make a game in wich buttons appear randomly in a group and are deleted if the user click on them. Sometimes after this ...

It works!
Thank you all, mostly Klaus

Up!

Maybe I can solve my problem if it possible to call a function of a card in another one. You know the way to do this?

I'm making a game with friends, my button must appear for a while and be deleted.
So in the button card I've a the script (inject with the code in my previous post):

global TTL // time to live

put 4 into TTL

// TTL down to 0 each second
on deleteTime
put TTL - 1 into TTL
send "deleteTime" to ...

Oh...
That I really do is put automaticly a script in a button with the line:

set the script of the templateButton to buttonscript

and thereafter I would to modify the value of these buttons.
It would be more easy if every button would have the same name! The only way to fix is to assign a ...

My problem is all of the buttons get a variable with the same name (in the button script).
So when in my main card I want to check the value, I can't only do
because the script don't know which one to choose!

Hi everybody, before to start I want you to know I'm a french student, so excuse me for my english.
I get a problem with global variables and global functions (even I don't know if this keyword can be apply for a function).
Here is the problem, I have some buttons with the same script inside, so ...