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Removing a child object
You can remove a child object from a movie by setting all variables that contain a reference to the child object to another value. If the child object has been assigned to a list, such as actorList
, you must also remove the child object from the list. (The actorList
property is useful for tracking and manipulating the child objects in a movie. For details, see Using actorList.)
To remove a child object and the variables that refer to it:
Set each variable to VOID
.
Director deletes the child object when there are no more references to it. For example, if ball1
contains the only reference to a specific child object, then the statement set ball1 = VOID
deletes the object from memory.
To remove an object from actorList:
Use the delete
command to delete the item from the list. See delete
.
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