Comments on: Remove all children from DisplayObject3D

By: joshk

joshk — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:08:13 +0000

good stuff mr. flashmonkey

By: FlashMonkey

FlashMonkey — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:03:32 +0000

I have an Abstract class that extend Sprite and contains a public dispose() method. That way you can do something like this:

while(myContainer.numChildren)
{
AbstractDisplay(myContainer.getChildAt(0)).dispose();
myContainer.removeChildAt(0);
}

That way it doesn’t matter what your Class is, or even if it contains an override of the dispose method, as long as somewhere along the inheritance line it extends AbstractDisplay. I also always set useWeakReference to true when adding event listeners.

I got the Abstract class from Shane McCartney.

By: rauri

rauri — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:23:26 +0000

and don’t forget to remove those eventlisteners within myContainer.getChildAt(0->numChildren-1)
and within myContainer.getChildAt(0->numChildren-1).getChildAt(0->numChildren-1) and etc…

surely there’s a better way?

i often make a kill function within any class that kills all event listeners, is optionally called when you want to disable a class, and is automatically called if you remove an instance of the class from the displaylist since it listens for the removed from stage event.

By: FlashMonkey

FlashMonkey — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:34:34 +0000

Cheers…

By: rauri

rauri — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:24:56 +0000

while(myContainer.numChildren) myContainer.removeChildAt(0);

cheers for the papervision version…