ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller.

[imaginex]

Hi all,

I'm trying to modify a flex utility called photoNavigator. Basically all it does is that it loads a high res jpeg image and allows the user to magnify a portion of the image.

what im trying to do is allow the user to load different images. Obviously i try and remove the previous instance of photoNavgator and add a new instance (which contains the new file location as well). This is the simple code:

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public function init():void
{
photo1 = new PhotoNavigator('pic1.jpg');
addChild (photo1);
}

public function button9Handler(event:MouseEvent)
{
removeChild(photo1); // removes the previous instance of PhotoNavigator - works
photo2 = new PhotoNavigator('pic2.jpg');
addChild(photo2);//trying to add a new instance of PhotoNavigator - doesnt work
}

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this is the error message i get.

ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller.
at flash.display:isplayObjectContainer/removeChild()
at org.flepstudio:hotoNavigator/setComplete()

please help!!!

[5TonsOfFlax]

You are mistaken somewhere. The error is from "removeChild", not "addChild". So your works and doesn't work comments don't make sense.

[imaginex]

if i take out the addChild('photo2') statement - everything is as it should be. The privous instance of PhotoNavigator is removed from the stage. There is not a problem.

but the moment i try to addChild('photo2') again - it doesnt work again. So if it is a problem of removeChild()- ....?

[5TonsOfFlax]

Perhaps the logic is messed up somewhere else. The stack trace indicates that it is in a method inside PhotoNavigator called setComplete. There is a removeChild line in there that is throwing the error.

[imaginex]

thanks buddy - There is a father.removeChild there.

When i try to removeChild again its trying to remove something which isnt there...

once again thank you