# How to remove a bitmap

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-remove-a-bitmap/212273>\
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**Created:** [January 9, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-remove-a-bitmap/212273 "2007-01-09T21:40:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![pythagoreas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9e5f3/32.png) [@pythagoreas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pythagoreas)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-remove-a-bitmap/212273/1 "2007-01-09T21:40:38Z")

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I am very new to ActionScript programming, and I am using AS 3.0. I am attempting to create a drawing that constantly needs to be updated. The drawing is a graph based on arbitrary, constantly changing, data points. Each frame however needs to be redrawn with a new bitmap. How do I remove the old bitmap before I display the new one ? I have tried using remove child, but when I do, nothing at all is displayed.

Any help at all is greatly appreciated.