remove internal clip

[havana7]

Hi to all.
I hava a movieclip with a button an this as3:

catalogo.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, click);

function click(event:MouseEvent):void
{
	this.galleria.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

So when clicked it goes in galleria movie clip on the 2 frame.

Now i need a button in galleria that could remove galleria clip when pressed.
I have tried whit visibility or removechild but nothing worked...

[5TonsOfFlax]

What did you try and how didn't it work? Did you get errors? What were they?

Generally, you do not want a child clip to control the parent. Although you can use the parent or root properties to go up the display hierarchy and then cast to MovieClip and call a method, it's cleaner to dispatch an event from the child and listen for it in the parent/ancestor.

So if I understand you correctly, this code would go in galleria:

someCloseButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeButtonClicked);
function closeButtonClicked(e:Event):void{
  dispatchEvent(new Event("closeGalleria", true));
}

And in galleria's parent:

addEventListener("closeGalleria", closeGalleria);
function closeGalleria(e:Event):void{
  removeChild(galleria);
  //or:
  //removeChild(e.target);
  //or:
  //removeChild(getChildByName("galleria"));
}

[havana7]

yes thnx man!!! it works!

now i would like to add a fadein effect and a fadeout of galleria. for the fade in i did as a tween in galleria mc from frame 2 to frame 20, but how can i do for fadeout when closebutton is clicked?

Edit: did it simply by creating a fadeout twin and adding at the last frame: dispatchEvent(new Event("closeGalleria", true));
an action gotoAndPlay at the closebutton.
Thnx again for help!