(Flash 8) Removing Snowflakes

[gregwhitworth]

for (var i = 0; i<amount; i++)  { thisFlake =
this.attachMovie("snowflake1", "snowflake1"+i, i);

It places the movie snowflake1 on the stage in my Pre-Load Scene.

Then when I play the movie the snowflakes work right, but when the pre-loading is done there are falling snowflakes on my next scene (I understand that there aren't actually scenes when the flash runs). I have tried numerous ways to remove the clip:

this.removeMovieclip("snowflake1")
delete "snowflake1"
this.removeAll

Please help as I am getting tired of flakes where they don't belong. Thanks.

Sincerely,
Greg

[a_modified_dog]

repeat your initial code, removing instead of attaching -

for (var i = 0; i<amount; i++) {
this["snowflake1"+i].removeMovieClip();
}

hth

[gregwhitworth]

Yeah it worked - it doesn't make much sense to me though - I though if I put:

this.removeMovieClip("snowflake1");

that the rest wouldn't matter since there is no movie clip to create snowflakes from. If you could explain a little I would appreciate it.

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Greg

[a_modified_dog]

run the file and (before you destroy the snowflakes)
use List Variables to display what you have created.
you should see something like -

Variable: _level0.snowflake10
Variable: _level0.snowflake11
Variable: _level0.snowflake12

this is the result of looping with - "snowflake1"+i

so simply removing snowflake1 has no effect

hth

[gregwhitworth]

Thanks for the help - but that makes absolutely no sense.

"snowflake1" + i = looping??

anyways, sorry about the duplicate movies, no one was answering my question, I would have deleted the post if I had the power. Sorry to everyone that did waste their time.

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Greg

[a_modified_dog]

but that makes absolutely no sense

your code-
for (var i = 0; i<amount; i++) {
thisFlake = this.attachMovie("snowflake1", "snowflake1"+i, i);
}

you are increasing variable i each time around the loop

1st iteration - i=0 - you make - "snowflake1"+i = _level0.snowflake10
2nd iteration - i=1 - you make - "snowflake1"+i = _level0.snowflake11
3rd iteration - i=2 - you make - "snowflake1"+i = _level0.snowflake12
and so on....

makes sense now ???
always use List Variables to display what you have created.