Question

Im currently creating textfields in a for loop – though in this example only creating one TextField.

My questions is, how do I remove the TextField child in another function?
What im basically doing is, create a Textfield, addchild to a container – > then the container into another position – > then removechild and another text in the container. I’ve tried something like:

removeChild( getChildByName(myTextField2) );

edit: perhaps a solution for me could also just to be able to change the text of the TextField to something else, rather than removing it and adding a new one.

public function handleTextFrames(numberOfFrames:Number, textFrame1:String, textFrame2:String, textFrame3:String, textFrame4:String):void

    {

        var textArray:Array = new Array(textFrame1,textFrame2,textFrame3,textFrame4);

        // Creating font instance
        var garageInstance:Font = new garage();

        //Creating the textfield object and naming it "myTextField"
        var myTextField:TextField = new TextField();

        //Here we add the new textfield instance to the stage with addchild()
        textContainer.alignContainer1.addChild(myTextField);

        //myTextField.width = 930;
        myTextField.embedFonts = true;
        myTextField.multiline = true;
        myTextField.wordWrap = false;
        myTextField.selectable = false;

        var myText:String = textArray[0];

        myTextField.htmlText = myText;

        //This last property for our textfield is to make it autosize with the text, aligning to the left.
        myTextField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

        //This is the section for our text styling, first we create a TextFormat instance naming it myFormat
        var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

        //Embedding font
        myFormat.font = garageInstance.fontName;

        myFormat.color = 0xffffff;
        myFormat.size = 60;
        myFormat.align = TextFormatAlign.CENTER;


        //Now the most important thing for the textformat, we need to add it to the myTextField with setTextFormat.
        myTextField.setTextFormat(myFormat);

        myTextField.y = textContainer.alignContainer1.height * 0.5 - myTextField.textHeight * 0.5;
        myTextField.x = payoffContainer_mc.width / 2 - myTextField.textWidth / 2;
    }

Answer 1

What exactly do you want to do? 🙂 Because if you keep the textfields in a “global” array, that would solve it.

Let’s say you keep it in an array, called textfields.

var textfields:Array = [];

You push everything in to this, by

textfields.push(textfield);

Then, at any time, you can remove this by calling this function:

textfields[0].parent.removeChild(textfields[0]);

concerning the first element. In flash this always works:

INSTANCE.parent.removeChild(INSTANCE);

Does this help?