remove all movieclips (as2)

[mooseisloose]

at my gameover screen i still have like 50 mcs on stage that wont bugger off. the majority of them dont have instance names, just depths, how do i remove all of them? i know i can remove them one by one or if they were all the same but with a number, but what's the easiest way to remove all mcs on stage, like every single mc?

[Neo-13]

Why not have another frame without them being there in the first place?

[Yambanshee]

how did u add them, dynamically? if so use this:
for(i in _root){
removeMovieClip(i)
}
//i have NEVER used for in in my life, so it might not work

[mooseisloose]

At 5/28/09 02:21 PM, Yambanshee wrote: how did u add them, dynamically? if so use this:
for(i in _root){
removeMovieClip(i)
}
//i have NEVER used for in in my life, so it might not work

thank you that worked PERFECTLY =]

[Paranoia]

At 5/28/09 02:20 PM, Neo-13 wrote: Why not have another frame without them being there in the first place?

Because they're added dynamically, and not attached to the timeline.

You can loop through them, e.g, when you spawn them, add them to an array (as you should anyway), and when they die or it's game over, just remove everything in the array.

My preferred method is to just stick a nest clip on whatever timeline and attach everything to that. That way everything's automatically removed anyway once you hit a frame without the nest.