Re: Deleting Custom Properties

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I knew I was barking up the wrong tree: this: on mouseUp set the customKeys of btn "CusProp" to empty end mouseUp scrubbed out EVERYTHING all at once! Hey, guess what; it's there in the Documentation (although, admittedly, not expressed perticularly clearly). _

Re: Deleting Custom Properties

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I dunno, seems a bit complicated. I just dug out a stack I made a while back that I popped together to try and understand customProps (which, oddly enough, turned out to be extremely simple to understand). Now on that stack, on its single card there is a button called "CusProp" which contains

Re: Deleting Custom Properties

2009-06-25 Thread Randy Hengst
Mark, Thanks for this additional tip. take care, randy - On Jun 25, 2009, at 3:23 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Klaus, a slightly simpler way is to use the fact the "the customproperties" of an object is an array, so: put the customproperties of btn "xyz" into tArray delete variable tArray["pro

Re: Deleting Custom Properties

2009-06-25 Thread Mark Smith
Klaus, a slightly simpler way is to use the fact the "the customproperties" of an object is an array, so: put the customproperties of btn "xyz" into tArray delete variable tArray["propname"] set the customproperties of btn "xyz" to tArray Randy, it's worth looking into customPropertySets - "th

Re: Deleting Custom Properties

2009-06-25 Thread Randy Hengst
Thank you Craig and Klaus... Deleting custom properties feels quite cumbersome when compared to creating and using them. I'm not sure how I missed the info in the User Guide... take care randy - On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:50 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I should have mentioned that the w

Re: Deleting Custom Properties

2009-06-25 Thread DunbarX
I should have mentioned that the way to put all the custom props into a variable is to: put the customKeys of yourObject into yourVariable This is in the user guide under "Deleting a custom property". It should be native, but at least can be written and kept as a utility handler in your toolbo

Re: Deleting Custom Properties

2009-06-25 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Randy, Hi All, I've been playing with custom properties over the past several weeks for pretty much the first time. I've been able to create, fill, and empty them via script... however, I've not been to delete one via script. How is that accomplished? this is the most cumbersome thin

Re: Deleting Custom Properties

2009-06-25 Thread DunbarX
You have to do it in steps: 1- Put all the custom property names of the object in, say, separate lines of a variable. 2- Delete the line containing the property in question from that variable. 3- Set the customkeys of the object to the (newly modified) variable. I don't know why you cannot just

Deleting Custom Properties

2009-06-25 Thread Randy Hengst
Hi All, I've been playing with custom properties over the past several weeks for pretty much the first time. I've been able to create, fill, and empty them via script... however, I've not been to delete one via script. How is that accomplished? take care, randy hengst