destroy with certain instance variable

I've searched but I can't find anything with this particular thing I'm trying to do so I hope you can help me!

I have a trash can button, and when I press that I want to destroy instances with a certain instance variable. I know how to do it if it's just one object with different instances, but I don't know how to do it with different objects at the same time.

Hope you understand!

Put everything in a Family, with that variable, then you can just do Pick Family.Var = X -> Family.Destroy

Thanks! Could you explain just a bit more how I do that, I mean, do I add a condition to when the trash can sprite is being clicked? Do I choose Pick by Comparison there? I'm just so confused. When I choose Pick by comparison, it says "expression" and I cant find the variable I've created there so I don't get it.

As you can hear, I'm still learning hehe. Not used to using variables.

You can simply do Family > Compare Variable. The actions will only apply to the objects of the family that fulfill that condition

See How events work

Ok but hm.. The thing I'm trying to do is, (it's an interior decorating game) create a bunch of sprites here and there. And then you can select one sprite (you click on it and a small menu appears). Then you can rotate it and so on, and also delete it.

So if the user has created multiple instances of a table for example, I only want the selected table to be destroyed and not all instances.

When I tried to put all furniture sprites in a family and add a variable to the family, then it destroys all the furniture :/

Here is an test version so you can see https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/624 ... utton.capx

Don't work with both object types, just the one. 'selected' is accessible from each object now. You can do this either way: use only Family, or use only each object type:

On tap furniture -> furniture:selected=1

OR

On tap chair -> chair:selected=1

Event 2 is correct.

(I'd suggest using 'On touched object' - 'On tap' is a specific gesture, and doesn't always work as you'd expect, for simple selections).

Read about Families here. You can't mix families and the objects they contain. If you have a condition that uses a family, the action also has to use the family, and not a single object from it