removeMovieClip

Hi all,

I read a brief explanation of this question on this site but did not fully understand it.

I have two objects and I would like one of them to be removed when they touch. Obviously I know how to remove it using removeChild but it does not remove it from the memory.

I have tried ‘delete this’ but that command was just ignored and I have tried ‘delete objectArray*’ from the other object which also doesn’t work.

I am aware that AS2 had removeMovieClip, so what has replaced that?

Thanks for your time!

James