Necessity of removeMovieClip

1

I have a radio button set up so that when someone clicks it, an attachMovie function is called.

The mc will take it’s course and then the person will either choose another radio button (attaching a new movie) or click a button that takes them to a new scene (or layer, however I decide to set it up) with more radio buttons and the process will
start over.

Is there any reason that the removeMovieClip command should be used to unload the clips once they are done playing?

2

it really depends on the clip. if it contains a whole bunch of variables or sounds i think it could start to bog down your performance. what you could do is continually load in each movie into the same clip or level writing over the old one. this would also save you the trouble of if someone were to click a couple buttons at the same time, before the clips finished playing or even loading

3

Well they won’t be able to click a couple buttons, at the same time, since they are radio buttons. They would just be able to click a new one before the mc finishes playing.

When you say continually load each movie into the same clip, I am not sure what you mean. Could you please explain?

Thanks!

4

when you attach movie clips you specify which level. i usually attach them inside of a blank movie clip so that i can specify which layer i want them loaded into. if you always load the movie clip into the same level they will write over the old clip.
holder.attachMovie(“whatever”, “loadedclip”, 3);
it will load into level 3 in the holder movie clip and the old movie will be unloaded

5

okay thanks
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