[Squeakland] Deleting multiple copies of an object?

[Scott Wallace]

Hi, Bob,

The easiest thing in a situation like this is to select all the 
unwanted objects using "group select," then to hit the pink X 
halo-handle of the "group halo"  to delete all of the selected 
objects at once:

To do this, hold down the shift key as you mouse-down on the Squeak 
"desktop" somewhere above and to the left of the stack of unwanted 
objects, and then drag-through rightward and downwards, with the 
mouse-button still down, letting up on the button once the cursor is 
below and to the right of the stack of objects.  This will do a 
"group select" on all the objects enclosed by the selection rectangle 
thus drawn.  Now a simple click on the "X" of the resulting "group 
halo" will delete all of the selected objects at once.

Cheers,

   -- Scott

PS:  Note that this "group select" feature is also useful for 
repositioning a group of objects on the screen without changing their 
positions relative to one another.


At 11:32 AM -0400 10/11/05, Bob Irving wrote:
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>I have a student who is programming a game.  Part of his script 
>changed an object into a copy of another object.  Since copies of 
>objects show up under the object, he didn't realize that he had make 
>about 300 copies of this object.  Now he wants to get rid of them 
>without deleting each one individually.  Is there a way to do this 
>programmatically?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>Bob Irving
>Middle School Technology Facilitator
>Lancaster Country Day School
>Lancaster, PA
>Blog: <http://www.e-lcds.org/wordpress/>www.e-lcds.org/wordpress/
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