Referring to self?

[richmond62]

Imagine a button called "B1" containing the script:

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on mouseUp
delete me
end mouseUp

This will NOT work, and generate the following error message:

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object's script is executing

This IS problematic as I wish to delete an object from inwith its own code if certain conditions are satisfied . . .

[SparkOut]

I'm pretty sure you can't. Why would you need to?

You could send the long name of me from the control's script to a handler in the stack script or library that takes the parameter and does a bit of error trapping, then deletes the object named in that parameter if error trapping says so.

[richmond62]

Why would you need to?

Let's suppose you have a stack with a template image of, say, a fish.

Each time you click on the template fish it clones, and renames the clone.

Now our end-user has to drag the cloned image to a fishpond image: each time s/he manages s/he gets a point.

Each time s/he doesn't manage to drag "fisho" to the pond, the fish vanishes (i.e. deletes).

[Klaus]

This works with my example button:

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on mouseup
   put the long ID of me into tID
   send "delete tID" to this cd in 1
end mouseup

[richmond62]

Super!

I suppose the SEND IN 1 allows the script to finish.

[Klaus]

Exactly, that is the trick!