Remove Child using class

[Stevenjs86]

this is my class i am trying to use to communicate with my main stage and object. the code in question that is returning the error is the code in bold. I just took a stab in the dark at how to code it, but i keep getting error's saying that i don't have the correct parent and that the _mc i am adding it to can't be found. I know it has something to do with communicating to the stage the original item is on, but i can't figure it out.

thanks in advanced. (below is the AS class i wrote called FoundItem, i have it linked as baseclass to my _mc i want to send through it.

package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;

public class FoundItem extends MovieClip
{
private var _origXScale:Number;
private var _origYScale:Number;
private var i:Number = 0;


public function FoundItem()
{
_origXScale = this.scaleX;
_origYScale = this.scaleY;
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, growItem);
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, shrinkItem);
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickItem);
}

private function growItem(event:MouseEvent):void
{
this.scaleX *= 1.5;
this.scaleY *= 1.5;
}

private function shrinkItem(event:MouseEvent):void
{
this.scaleX = _origXScale;
this.scaleY = _origYScale;
}

private function clickItem(event:MouseEvent):void
{
parent(this).removeChild(parent(this).this)
this.addChild(toolBar_mc);
this.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickItem);
}
}
}

[DiamondDog]

Your line

this.addChild(toolBar_mc)

is trying to add toolBar_mc as a child of the foundItem. I'm guessing that you actually want to do the opposite, and add the foundItem as a child of the toolbar? (I'm also guessing that toobar_mc is your main class?)

If that's the case, try this:

parent.removeChild(this);
mainClass.addFoundItem(this);
removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,clickItem)

and in your mainClass add the following function

function addFoundItem(foundThingy:FoundItem):void
{
addChild(foundThingy);
}

Hope that works. I'm a noob, so there may be better, more elegant ways of doing this.

[cancerinform]

Your syntax is first of all wrong. parent does not have a parameter. In needs to be this.parent or just parent. However, if you remove the parent you will also remove the object itself. What exactly in the Displaylist you want to remove?

[Stevenjs86]

Your line

this.addChild(toolBar_mc)

is trying to add toolBar_mc as a child of the foundItem. I'm guessing that you actually want to do the opposite, and add the foundItem as a child of the toolbar? (I'm also guessing that toobar_mc is your main class?)

If that's the case, try this:

parent.removeChild(this);
mainClass.addFoundItem(this);
removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,clickItem)

and in your mainClass add the following function

function addFoundItem(foundThingy:FoundItem):void
{
addChild(foundThingy);
}

Hope that works. I'm a noob, so there may be better, more elegant ways of doing this.

It didn't quite work, i am getting an error about the addFoundItem in the Class code. thanks for the try. I purchased a training video on action scripting and i am getting the information i need, but its very round about. not ever getting exactly what i need.

[Stevenjs86]

Your syntax is first of all wrong. parent does not have a parameter. In needs to be this.parent or just parent. However, if you remove the parent you will also remove the object itself. What exactly in the Displaylist you want to remove?

I am trying to use the code as a reusable way to remove a mc off the main stage and put it into a movie clip on the main stage. (the idea being that the items i choose can be clicked on and added to a visual basket.) and i would like to make a code that is reusable. I got it to where i write the code repetitively in the actions frame on the main stage.

thanks for your help

[cancerinform]

Then you need to remove the MovieClip first and I am not sure you are doing that, since I don't know your movie.

[Stevenjs86]

The movie clip that i want to remove i am representing by "this" becuase the movie clip is what ever movie clip i set to use this class and it runs when i click on it in the main stage

Once the movie clip is removed from the main stage i want to add it to the movie clip labeled toolBar_mc.

would the code for adding look like this?
toolBar_mc.addChild(toolBar_mc.this)

but i tried that and it failed also......