Deleting cards from within themselves.

[Roger Eller]

try this:

click at the loc of btn "DELL" of card "INPUTTER"

~Roger


On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This CANNOT be done, as such.
>
> I am currently working up a moronically simple flashcard program for
> people to learn words in a new language.
>
> It features a card where end-users can add terms.
>
> Now, for every new term a templet card is cloned and 2 fields on the
> cloned card are filled.
>
> No rocket science round these parts!
>
> HOWEVER . . . there's always one of those . . .
>
> I want a button on each vocab. card that allows chummy to delete that card.
>
> Tried a button with this script:
>
> on mouseUp
>   put the ID of this card into fld "QARD" of card "INPUTTER"
>   send "mouseUp" to btn "DELL" of card "INPUTTER"
> end mouseUp
>
> where button "DELL" contains this:
>
> on mouseUp
>   put fld "QARD" into QARD
>   delete card ID QARD
> end mouseUp
>
> now, clicking directly on button "DELL" deletes the card . .
>
> but clicking the button on the card to be deleted does NOT delete that
> card because the script in that button
> is still active.
>
> Would be grateful for any ideas on this one.
>
> Richmond.
>
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