attachMovie, yes. But what about removing?

[sidstyler]

I don't have much trouble attaching new movieclips to the scene or inside existing objects. But how do I remove movieclips? I can't find anything relevant in the gfxObject class for doing this.

Can I use the CreateEmptyMovieClip and replace the depth of the movie clip if I want to delete an existing clip?

[Matt Doyle]

One option, as you suggested, is to replace the movie clip with a blank one.

var GFxObject RootMC

// cache the _root timeline.

RootMC = GetVariableObject("_root");

// create a new movie clip at depth 0
// called 'InstanceName' on the _root timeline, 
// using a symbol from the library that has 
// the linkage ID of 'LinkageID'.

RootMC.AttachMovie("LinkageID", "InstanceName", 0);

// replace the 'InstaneName' movie clip with an empty movie clip at depth 0.

RootMC.CreateEmptyMovieClip("InstanceName", 0);

[Matt Doyle]

But to actually remove a movie clip, you'll need to use Invoke:

var GFxObject RoomMC, MyMovieClip;
var array<ASValue> args;
var ASValue asval;

// Attach the movie clip to the _root

RootMC = GetVariableObject("_root");
MyMovieClip = RootMC.AttachMovie("LinkageID", "InstanceName");

// Remove the movie clip

asval.Type = AS_Boolean;
asval.b = TRUE;
args[0] = asval;

MyMovieClip.Invoke("removeMovieClip", args);

[sidstyler]

Thanks for your answers, both of them actually =) I've been working on some other parts recently but this helped me in several ways. So one can actually call whatever built in flash function from US using the Invoke() function?

[Matt Doyle]

Essentially, yes.