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Hi all, is there a simple way to do that?

The only attribute I know for manipulating nodes creation / destruction is... @nodenumber, but of course it adds or deletes point starting from the last index... what if I needed to delete node number 2 in a 10 nodes environment? The only thing I can think right now is to use the coll object for manipulating node creation / destruction and to synchronize it with the [node] object...but I hope there's a simplier solution. Or: I'm not into JS stuff, but maybe some js code may communicate with [node]...and tell him "delete node number 2, reorder"...hmm...

PS: first post here, I have to celebrate!

Hi all, is there a simple way to do that?
The only attribute I know for manipulating nodes creation / destruction is... @nodenumber, but of course it adds or deletes point starting from the last index... what if I needed to delete node number 2 in a 10 nodes environment? The only thing I can think right now is to use the coll object for manipulating node creation / destruction and to synchronize it with the [node] object...but I hope there's a simplier solution. Or: I'm not into JS stuff, but maybe some js code may communicate with [node]...and tell him "delete node number 2, reorder"...hmm...
Any suggestion?

PS: first post here, I have to celebrate!


deleting-specific-nodes-in-node-object

+1, I'm sorry I have not a solution for this, but would love to see an answer too for my patch!

How about setting the active state of the node 2 to 0? It doesn't delete the node per see but it deactivates it. Otherwise you'll have to store everything, change the number of nodes, and restores the nodes you want.

I'm already using the active state feature, so I'm forced to use the store/delete/dump trick. As soon I find a shareable solution i'll share it!

Thank you Emmanuel,
I'm already using the active state feature, so I'm forced to use the store/delete/dump trick. As soon I find a shareable solution i'll share it!
Thank you again.


Ok that works but I imagine there could be better solutions.

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