Legal or not, it's very unwise to let an object kill itself. Letting
an object commit suicide would leave the rest of a program in a lurch
as it wouldn't really know where to go from there. You haven't
officially returned back to the caller at that point. You are better
off sending out an event to a container object that will put you on
death row, so you can be properly disposed of when you are finished
executing.
jord
On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:44 AM, Mark Burvill wrote:
public function die():Void {
trace ("deleting");
removeMovieClip (baddie_mc);
delete this;
trace ("Am i still alive?");
}
The movieclip is successfully removed, but I would expect the
second trace "Am I still alive" NOT to appear as the object has
been deleted, but it does.
I read somewhere that it is illegal for an object to delete itself
- is this true?
Is there another easy way of doing this?
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