Using Director > Parent Scripts > Removing a child object

 

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.