Removing Movieclips (AS2)

[A-star]

I'm not entirely sure how to remove a MC individually placed on the timeline, removeMovieClip and unloadMovie seem to only remove MCs placed through coding. [AS2]

[daytonj]

I've used unload on clips made in authoring time always worked for me check your code

[A-star]

I'm positive that the code is fine.

[InnerChild548]

If you placed the MovieClip on the stage during authoring, then you can't really remove it. The best you can do is either send it off screen or change it's visible property to false, to hide it:

myMC._visible = false;

[Johnny]

At 12/12/09 09:42 PM, InnerChild548 wrote: If you placed the MovieClip on the stage during authoring, then you can't really remove it. The best you can do is either send it off screen or change it's visible property to false, to hide it:

myMC._visible = false;

You can use swapDepths() on it first which will allow it to be removed.

instanceName.swapDepths(50000);
instanceName.removeMovieClip();

[BillysProgrammer]

At 12/12/09 09:42 PM, InnerChild548 wrote: If you placed the MovieClip on the stage during authoring, then you can't really remove it. The best you can do is either send it off screen or change it's visible property to false, to hide it:

myMC._visible = false;

Doing that will use up cpu and cache, unless you are going to be using it again, never make it just invisible.