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Asked: 2026-05-11T06:24:56+00:00

Can someone help me to find out why I’m getting the error message Access

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Can someone help me to find out why I’m getting the error message ‘Access to undefined property: removeChild(goBack)’ on the following snipped?

BTW, this is for flash CS4

function nameOfFunction() {  var goBack:backButton_mc = new backButton_mc();  goBack.x = 10;  goBack.y = 700;  goBack.back_text.text = myXML.*[buildingName].NAME;  goBack.name = 'backBtn';  goBack.buttonMode = true;   addChild(goBack);  goBack.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, anotherFunction);  }   function anotherFunction(e:MouseEvent):void {   removeChild(goBack);  }
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  1. You are wrong with the scope. (surprise :-D)

    The variable goBack is just defined inside of ‘nameOfFunction’, when you try to access this from a another function like ‘anotherFunction’ it will not exists anymore (even if it is on the display list)

    There are different possibilities to solve this problem:

    function anotherFunction(e:MouseEvent):void {    removeChild(e.currentTarget); }

    Or the best way would be: promote goBack as a class member of the class holding both functions. (Or if you don’t use classes make goBack ‘global’.)

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