How can children be removed when on a different frame than where they were created?

Ok, since it seems to be out of scope if accessed directly from frame1, is that only if it's declared on frame1, or is there another way to make it global? Is that done by declaring it as public? Or can it be reached through the stage, as with your removeChildF function?

Having a timeout is vital, but when it's what initiates the navigation back to frame1, there could be a number of components, listeners and children that need to be removed from the stage.

Also, when an object is added as a child multiple times before removal, is it always overwriting the previous instance, or does it need to be removed as many times as it was added?

The circumstance is that I'm not making an explicit call to frame1. The times that I am, (back button for example), I do remove the children in that function. The problem is that there's a timeout function, (thanks to kglad), on frame1 that listens for mouse movement and switches to frame1 when it's idle for a set period.

If it's not ineffecient to store all of the variables in frame1, I could do it that way, and then just test all the variables for non-null children and remove those that aren't null.

Or is it possible to reach a child anywhere by addressing it through the stage, for example, if var pieChart:Shape = new Shape() is declared and added as a child on frame2, can frame1 access it as pieChart.parent.removeChild(pieChart), as shown in kglad's removeChildF function?

function removeChildF(obj:DisplayObject):void{

if(obj.stage){

obj.parent.removeChild(obj);

}

}