[HELP]removing duplicated movie clip

[goldy2006]

Basically, a random amount of movieclips have been attached to the stage using attachMovieClip().

how do i remove one of these movieclips from the stage?

I tried this["rock"+b].removeMovieClip()
but that didn't work

PLEASE HELP!

-Matt

Here's the Code (assume there are five movie clips in the library:rockone, rocktwo, rockthree, rockfour, rockfive):

gridheight = 15;
gridwidth = 15;
gridx=0;
gridy=30;
gridsize = 30;
b = 0;
for (a = 0; a != (gridheight*gridwidth); a++) {
        randomnum = random(10);
        if (randomnum == 1){
                attachMovie("rockone", "rock"+b, b+100);
        } else if (randomnum == 2){
                attachMovie("rocktwo", "rock"+b, b+100);
        } else if (randomnum == 3){
                attachMovie("rockthree", "rock"+b, b+100);
        } else if (randomnum == 4){
                attachMovie("rockfour", "rock"+b, b+100);
        } else if (randomnum == 5){
                attachMovie("rockfive", "rock"+b, b+100);
        }
        if (randomnum>0 && randomnum<6){
                this["rock"+b]._x = ((a % gridwidth)*gridsize)+gridx;
                this["rock"+b]._y = ((Math.floor(a/gridwidth))*gridsize)+gridy;
                b=b+1;
                this["rock"+b].removeMovieClip();
        }
}

[nunomira]

hi,

Your code doesn't work because:
- you attach a movie clip, and call it "rock"+b
- you increase the b: b=b+1
- you try to remove "rock"+b which doesn't exist yet because you increased b

i.e.,

if b=4,
- you have rock4 (you attached it)
- b=5 (you increased b)
- you try to remove rock5 (rock5 doesn't exist yet)

[goldy2006]

wow, i feel really dumb right now

Thanks very much, can't believe i missed that!

[nunomira]