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[Visualpython-users] Documenting delete

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

I've updated the Visual documentation to include a section on how to delete 
a Visual object (by making it invisible, then reassigning the name).

Bruce Sherwood

Re: [Visualpython-users] Documenting delete

[Ari H. <ahe...@an...>]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Bruce Sherwood wrote:

> I've updated the Visual documentation to include a section on how to delete 
> a Visual object (by making it invisible, then reassigning the name).
> 

why not include a little "delete" function that takes the name, and does this
for you?

just a sugar, but it seems to be in demand.



ari

Re: [Visualpython-users] Documenting delete

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

--On Wednesday, December 27, 2000 1:37 PM -0500 Ari Heitner 
<ahe...@an...> wrote:

>> I've updated the Visual documentation to include a section on how to
>> delete  a Visual object (by making it invisible, then reassigning the
>> name).
>>
>
> why not include a little "delete" function that takes the name, and does
> this for you?
>
> just a sugar, but it seems to be in demand.

Should this be part of Visual, or just an example in the documentation?

(It is my understanding from previous conversations that there may be a 
problem with performing the delete inside Visual, due to thread 
synchronization, or something....?)

Bruce Sherwood

P.S. Sorry for the duplicate notes about the update of the documentation.

Re: [Visualpython-users] Documenting delete

[Ari H. <ahe...@an...>]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Bruce Sherwood wrote:

> --On Wednesday, December 27, 2000 1:37 PM -0500 Ari Heitner 
> <ahe...@an...> wrote:
> > why not include a little "delete" function that takes the name, and does
> > this for you?
> 
> Should this be part of Visual, or just an example in the documentation?
> 
> (It is my understanding from previous conversations that there may be a 
> problem with performing the delete inside Visual, due to thread 
> synchronization, or something....?)

um, defined in visual. only used from the user-thread side if that's what's
needed for safety.

needs to do a bit of magic to look up a variable name in the caller's
namespace, and kill it. but hey, this is python, that's the kind of
gobbledygood this language is for, right?

:)

ari