Re: [Flashcoders] can't remove a clip attached to root???

2005-12-14 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, is this in an empty movie, or a movie with components in it? Try and trace the depth, if its higher than a certain number (which may be caused by components on your stage) you have to swap it to a lower depth first. greetz Hans At 10:27 PM 12/14/2005, Jason Rayles wrote: Is there a reason

Re: [Flashcoders] can't remove a clip attached to root???

2005-12-14 Thread Morten Barklund Shockwaved
Jason Rayles wrote: Is there a reason that a movie clip attached to _root cannot be removed using removeMovieClip? If _root.getNextHighestDepth() returns a negative value, then you cannot remove the movieclip unless you swap it up to some positive depth. I'm not sure, but that might be it.

Re: [Flashcoders] can't remove a clip attached to root???

2005-12-14 Thread Cinetryx
Hello, I noticed a problem with this function, getNextHighestDepth, it positions the clips to too high level and so removeMovieClip does not delete your clip. You have to put yourself a level to your clip. bye Jason Rayles a écrit : Is there a reason that a movie clip attached to _root

Re: [Flashcoders] can't remove a clip attached to root???

2005-12-14 Thread Jason Rayles
I'll just put an empty movie clip on the stage and attach something to that. On Dec 14, 2005, at 4:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 16 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:32:23 +0100 From: Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] can't remove a clip attached to root

RE: [Flashcoders] can't remove a clip attached to root???

2005-12-14 Thread Ben Smeets
Hi Jason, The solution is like others already mentioned. The problem is the getNextHighestDepth and removeMovieclip unable to remove mc's in too high or too low levels. How i solve this is to first swapDepths and after that remove. 1. attach at getnexthighestdepth 2. mc.swapDepths(9); (i