Delete group error message

[CenturyMan1979]

Hey All,

Updating a project from 5.5.4 to 6.6 and I seem to be having some issue with some code where I am deleting a group that is inside another group. The line of code I was using in 5.5.4 was,

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//tID = the id number of the group
delete group id tID

Now when I am trying this same bit of code in 6.6 the program hits this line and spits out the following error,

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group "soGroup": execution error at line n/a (Object: stack locked, or object's script is executing)

Anyone else come across this issue when moving to the community edition? Also the code would seem to work when I executed it from the message window.

[Klaus]

Hi CenturyMan1979,

where exactly is the part that tries to delete the group?
In a stack/card or other script? And how and where do you call it?


Best

Klaus

[CenturyMan1979]

Here is the structure of my stack

• main_stack
  • main_group
    • thumbnail_display_group
      • thumbnail_group (Repetitive thumbnail component for displaying thumbnails)
    • right_click_popup_menu

So when I right click on a thumbnail_group the following code is executed,

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# Mouse Right Click
#=====================================================================
on mouseUp pMouseButton
   if (pMouseButton = 3) then
      put "Delete Module" into tPopMenuContent
      set the text of button "right_click_popup_menu" to tPopMenuContent
      popup button "right_click_popup_menu"
   end if
end mouseUp

Then when you select "Delete Module" from right_click_popup_menu then it will do this,

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on menuPick pMenuItem
   switch pMenuItem
      case "Delete Module"
         dispatch "deleteModule" -- deleteModule method is located in main_group
         break
      default
         pass menuPick pMenuItem
   end switch
end menuPick

Then here is the method from main_group,

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on deleteModule
   dispatch "deleteModule" to group "thumbnail_display_group"
end deleteModule

And here is the code (up to the error) in thumbnail_group, also to note that when you left click on a thumbnail it will add its group id to a list called cSelectedIndexList. This way I could delete multiple thumbnail_groups at one time.

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on deleteModule
   
   put the cSelectedIndexList of me into tSelectedIndexList -- List of group ids that have been selected from the thumbnail_display_group
   put the number of lines of (the keys of tSelectedIndexList) into tLoop
   
   if (tLoop = 0) then exit deleteModule
   
   lock screen
   
   put the cTimelineContent of me into tCurrTimelineContent
   
    repeat with n = 1 to tLoop
      put tSelectedIndexList[n] into tID
      put the cModuleCount of group id tID into tIndex // Getting the position of the thumbnail_group in the thumbnail_display_group from the cModuleCount variable
      delete group id tID // <---- Here is where the error gets triggered
      delete variable tCurrTimelineContent[tIndex]
   end repeat

[CenturyMan1979]

After that huge response I ended up finding the issue. I changed the code in main group from

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on deleteModule
   dispatch "deleteModule" to group "thumbnail_display_group"
end deleteModule

to

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on deleteModule
   send "deleteModule" to group "thumbnail_display_group" in 0 millisecond
end deleteModule

Not sure why it worked in 5.5.4 and now does not work. Must of been a bug that got fixed.

[Klaus]

Glad you could solve it!