Question

I’m using this code to unload a swf file and go back to the main menu.

The main menu loads the external swf files with no trouble but for some reason unloading just doesn’t work.

var BaseMovie:MovieClip = parent.parent as MovieClip;

FinishButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, RemoveGame );

function RemoveGame(i:MouseEvent):void
{   
    BaseMovie.loader.unload(); //Loads previous movie and unloads current movie.
}

Answer 1

If you’re using BaseMovie somewhere else (and you are, because you’ve added it to the display list to make it visible), it won’t be destroyed as a result of calling Loader.unload().

To remove BaseMovie from the display list, do something like the following:

BaseMovie.parent.removeChild(BaseMovie);

Note that by convention, variable names start with lowercase. So instead of BaseMovie, use baseMovie.

Hope this helps, good luck.