Mouse Trails

Remove The Easy Way

We want to get rid of each movieClip when it finishes it's animation. If you are using ActionScript 2.0, there's a real easy way to do that... first, bring up the trail movieClip and select the last frame in the animation:

Now frame actions to "delete" the movieClip when it hits the last frame.

  1. Choose ActionScript 2.0 Classes > Movie > MovieClip > Methods > removeMovieClip
  2. The Object is this

Think of "this" as the movieClip referring to itself. It is possible to remove for a movieClip to remove other movieClips, but we don't need to get into that just yet. Test your work... the clip should disappear at the end of the animation:

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