deleting multiple duplicated MC's

[farfenwaffle]

Hey, I'm not a coder but i thought it would be fun to try to make a little side scrolling shooter.
I used thsi code tobring my little basterd enemys into the world:

for (i = 1; i < nrEnemies; i++)
{
	_root.Enemy0.duplicateMovieClip("Enemy" + i, _root.getNextHighestDepth());
}

now that little chunk of code was the only bit i got from the internet, Now I am regretting not knowing the code!
I just can't understand it. now when I go to the next frame the enemys are still there floating around,
heres what i need:
-whats the proper use for: _root.[movieclip].deleteMovieClip to make all of the spawned enemys go away?
-what the heck does my code mean?
-should I ever do something stupid like this ever again?

[Denvish]

At 5/6/09 12:08 AM, farfenwaffle wrote: -whats the proper use for: _root.[movieclip].deleteMovieClip to make all of the spawned enemys go away?

for (i = 1; i<nrEnemies; i++){
	_root["Enemy" + i].removeMovieClip();
}

-what the heck does my code mean?

This is a FOR loop that runs repeatedly.

It will start looping from the point where i (a counter) =1.

for (i = 1;

It will stop looping when i stops being less than max number of enemies (variable: nrEnemies).

i<nrEnemies;

Every loop, i will be incremented by one

i++){

Everything that's inside the curly brackets is the code that will be executed each loop - in the case of your code, it duplicates a new enemy on each loop.

for (i = 1; i<nrEnemies; i++){
//DO STUFF
}

-should I ever do something stupid like this ever again?

You should check out the Flash help files (press F1 in Flash) and maybe AS: Main if you're keen on learning how to code games.