Properly remove items from stage?

[Guest]

In actionscript 2 if you wanted items on the stage to not appear to the user you would just use the onclipevent(load) and then move them, alpha them and so on. In as 3 I cannot figure out how to get the items off of the stage before the stage renders them. There's always a flash of the stage items and then they disappear. What should I use? I don't like the addChild method because it's impossible to design a site that way. I like all my items on the stage and then go from there...

Thanks!

[kglad]

i'm not sure what the problem is with addChild() but you can use the render event to detect when a displayobject is about to be rendered.  (use stage.invalidate() to force flash to dispatch the render event.)

[Guest]

I can't use add child because I can never figure out to work to movieclips and from movieclips to the main timeline while using addchild. I'm a self taught as 2.0 guy and no one can ever explain to me how to get my movie clip at page_1/video_clip to interact with functions I have on the main timeline. I use the MovieClip(root) and everything in AS 3 is making sense.

I don't know what to do with stage.invalidate()? Where does it go? What event listeners do I use as a result? Then what do I do?

[kglad]

do whatever you want before they're rendered.  from you original message it looks like you want to remove them.

so you would use something like:

stage.invalidate();

do1.addEventListner(Event.RENDER,removeF);

function removeF(e:Event){

DisplayObjectContainer(DisplayObject(e.currentTarget).parent).removeChild(DisplayObject(e.currentTarget));

}

though, with knowledge of your particular situation you probably don't need to do all that casting.

[Guest]

Do you see it flash on the stage if you use something like this:

myMC.visible = false;
var i =new Loader();
i.load(new URLRequest("http://news.google.com/images/news.gif"));
myMC.addChild(i)

[kglad]

no.  (oops, sorry -  that question wasn't directed to me.)

[Guest]

of course not, but as I mentioned I haven't had much luck with addChild yet. I'm giving it another try with this document, I'll post an update later...

[Guest]

C-Rock,

Never heard back.  Did you get this figured out?