Problems Removing Target Child

[plutohnik]

Hello, I've run into a problem when trying to move one of my sprites from the stage when it dies. So far what I'm having to do is call the Death method from the main class, which then goes to the Enemy Class in order to play the animation, once the animation has reached the last frame an event is triggered which is situated in the main frame which then removes the now dead enemy from the stage. However it doesn't appear to be able to target the child which I want removed =/ any ideas. Thanks.

Main Class:

private function hitCheck(e:Event = null):void{
			var samuraiPos:Number = SamuraiChar.samuraiPos();
			if(SamuraiChar.currentAttackDirection() == Util.LEFT){
				for(var i:uint = 0; i < enemyList.length; i++){
					if(enemyList[i].x - samuraiPos > -150 && enemyList[i].x - samuraiPos < -50){
						enemyList[i].die();
						enemyList.splice(enemyList.indexOf(enemyList[i]), 1);	
					}
				}
			} 
		}
private function removeEnemy(e:Event = null):void{
			removeChild(this);
			//enemyList.splice(enemyList.indexOf(e.currentTarget), 1);
		}

Enemy Class:

public function die():void
		{
			EnemyChar.gotoAndStop(3);
			if(EnemyChar.character.currentFrame == EnemyChar.character.totalFrames)
				//this.dispatchEvent(new Event("removeEnemy"));
				this.removeChild(EnemyChar);
		}

[5TonsOfFlax]

removeChild is a method of DisplayObjectContainer. It must be called on the particular parent of the child to be removed. Your first attempt was more along the correct lines, but you should call removeChild(e.target) instead of removeChild(this).

removeChild(this) never makes sense. An DisplayObject cannot hold itself as a child.

There are some other oddities in the code posted. I do not know what EnemyChar is in Enemy, since I would expect that Enemy itself is the Enemy. Perhaps you've simply added an internal child to be the visual representation? That's not necessary, but also not too terrible. The event should probably bubble so that you don't have to add the listener to each Enemy instance. By default it does not.

[YBAB]

if (this.y >= 600){
removeSelf();
}
}

function removeSelf() : void
        {
            if (MovieClip(parent).contains(this)){
                MovieClip(parent).removeChild(this);
                removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,CrabGo);
        }
        }

add what you need to and change everything around, but yea this works...

[5TonsOfFlax]

If the parent property is not null, parent.contains(this) will always return true. If it is null, that will throw an error. So you can change removeSelf to this:

function removeSelf():void{
  if (parent){
    parent.removeChild(this);
  }

I have no idea where CrabGo came from.

[YBAB]

its a segment from one of my files...

its just to show what to call really quick, and to point out to remove any listeners that are associated to that clip!