Question

i have a button and i am trying to unload it but i dont know how.

I add the child as follows : addChild(buttons);

I try to remove it by : removeChild(buttons);

but this does not work, nothing happens. Any ideas?

Answer 1

you are probably losing an instance of that button from your code, most likely because the button was temporarily defined in a function.

2 options create a global instance of the button.

or the add the instance of that button into a list

var list:Array = new Array(); //define a global array

var b1:Button = new Button () //I honestly don't remember the synthax for creating a button 
list.push(b1);

then when ever you want to remove the buttons from stage just do the following:

for(int i=0; i<list.length;i++){
    removeChild(list[i]);
}