User Guide

286 Chapter 12: Methods
delete()
Usage
-- Lingo syntax
fileioObjRef.delete()
// JavaScript syntax
fileioObjRef.delete();
Description
Fileio method; Deletes a file.
Parameters
None.
See also
Fileio
deleteAt
Usage
list.deleteAt(number)
deleteAt list, number
Description
List command; deletes an from a linear or property list.
The
deleteAt command checks whether an item is in a list; if you try to delete an object that
isn’t in the list, Director displays an alert.
Parameters
number
Required. Specifies the position of the item in the list to delete.
Example
This statement deletes the second item from the list named designers, which contains [gee,
kayne, ohashi]:
designers = ["gee", "kayne", "ohashi"]
designers.deleteAt(2)
The result is the list [gee, ohashi].
This handler checks whether an object is in a list before attempting to delete it:
on myDeleteAt theList, theIndex
if theList.count < theIndex then
beep
else
theList.deleteAt(theIndex)
end if
end
See also
addAt