ActionScript 3.0 :: Can't Find Parent For RemoveChild?
Oct 25, 2009
I can't seem to use removeChild. Basically this is what happens.From the Document class, or another movieClip class, I can addChild (movieClip) fine but when I go to remove them I get ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller.
even if I go: myMov.parent.removeChild(myMov) or (getChildByName(MyMov)) or anything it always either gives the above error or in the case of using .parent: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
Also using trace() to find out what the parent is it always says [ object DocClassName] and the docClass seems to return the right amount of child MovieClips. Heres my code snippet:[code]....
Do I need to create some sort of Stage for all child MovieClips to belong to?
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