What is the equivalent to removeMovieClip()
in AS3?
Apparently many have the same question:
StackOverflow:
Others:
But none of their solutions seem to work, for me:
Im working on flash CS4 with AS3:
I have a very simple movie with a single button called click. On pressing the button, a new instance of coin is created:
this.click.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,justclick);
function justclick(e:MouseEvent){
var money=new coin
this.addChild(money)
money.x=e.stageX
money.y=e.stageY
}
It might not be the best code, but it works fine. Now, the coin MovieClip is supposed to show a small animation and remove itself. In good old AS2 I would have added:
this.removeMovieClip()
in the last frame of the animation. But this doesn't exist in AS3.
I have tried, without success:
this.parent.removeChild(this) // 'Cannot access a property or method of nullobject reference'...
this.removeMovieClip() // 'removeMovieClip is not a function'
removeMovieClip(this) //'call to possibly undefined method removeMovieClip'
unloadMovie(this)//'call to possibly undefined method removeMovieClip'
Solutions?
Thanks,
this.parent.removeChild(this);
This one should be working; it's what I use. One problem I had when I switched to AS3 is that sometimes it wouldn't be added as a child right, so you might want to check that. You also have to import flash.display via putting this at the top if you're not already:
import flash.display.*
You should also remove the event listener on it before removing it.