ActionScript 3.0 :: Parent.removeChild Inside Construstor?
Sep 3, 2009
I have recently experienced problems with attempt to remove DisplayObjects that were placed at design time.I have some class "Locator" inherited from Sprite. Several instances of it are placed at the stage at design time.Locator constructor fills parent variables and tries to remove the instance itself from parent:
ActionScript Code:
public function Locator()
{
// give parent some important data
[code]....
All instances now process constructor, but only one of them processes event handler.
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I got a Parent Sprite, let's name it SpriteP, which holds inside it two other Sprites. Sprite1 and Sprite2.
When Sprite2 is NOT rotated:
Code:
trace(SpriteP.width + ' ' + SpriteP.height); //100 250.
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[Code].....
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