Hello Kirupa Forums,
I’m relatively new to Flash and AS, and have been lurking around this site for a little while now (excellent tutorials by the way!) I’ve finally come across a coding problem I cannot solve, so I decided to ask you experts and see what you think:
I’m creating a simple movie with some movie clips of scenery (mountains, trees, etc.) and falling snow. The problem lies in the snow. The way it is set up now, I have the following code on the first frame of the main movie to constantly create little flake MCs (thanks to Kirupa for the duplicate movie tutorial):
onEnterFrame = function()
{
i = i + 1;
this.attachMovie("circle_mc", "circle" + i, 10 + i);
}
That works fine; however, when each flake reaches the bottom of the stage, I’d like to remove them from the movie. Each flake is an MC instance inside another MC, called flake_mc. The instance has this code:
onClipEvent (load) {
this._x = random(250);
this._y = 0;
this._alpha = random(100);
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
this._y = this._y + 5;
if (this._y >= 150)
{
this.removeMovieClip();
}
}
Everything works great except the removeMovieClip part. I tried a few variations, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas? Or any comments on a better way to control and maintain a huge amount of temporary MCs?
Thanks in advance for any help,
-gvsboy