[Question]: MC delete after play

[Phallic]

hey guys,

is there a quick and easy way to delete a MC immediately after it plays once?
like a function that plays the clip once and then deletes it?

without knowing of any special functions to do that, i thought about:
-play the movie clip
-wait x seconds for movie clip to run 1 time through
-delete movie clip

EDIT:
or maybe count x number of frames and delete?

thanks,

[Phallic]

i just dynamically created the object and made an onenter event for it.
in the event, i counted down the number of frames. when it hits zero, i delete the object.

seems to work

[ImprisonedPride]

movieClip.aliveTime = 0;

movieClip.onEnterFrame=function() {
if (this._aliveTime < this._totalframes) {
this.aliveTime++;
} else {
this.removeMovieClip();
}
}

I am away from my computer this weekend so you may need to check the syntax on _totalframes, but I believe that is correct. Easy and painless.

[Phallic]

cool....

i came up with something similar:

code:

---

mc.onEnterFrame = function(){

  this.frames--;

  if (this.frames == 0){

  this.removeMovieClip();

}

---

it just requires to initiallize mc.frames first.

[ImprisonedPride]

Either way works fine, but this way you can change number of frames without having to reset your variable.

[Phallic]

Either way works fine, but this way you can change number of frames without having to reset your variable.

true

[StephenN]

mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
   if (this._currentframe == this._totalframes) {
      this.removeMovieClip();
   } else {
   }
}

No variables needed.

[Phallic]

mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
   if (this._currentframe == this._totalframes) {
      this.removeMovieClip();
   } else {
   }
}

No variables needed.

sweet.... that works perfectly.

thanks for the help, guys.