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To start off open a new File in Flash and name it RemoveChildTutorial for this tutorial mainly otherwise you can name your files what you wish. It is good practice to name your initial class file the same as your fla file but not nesscery. 

Then open a .as actionscript file and name that as same RemoveChildTutorial

You dont need to do anything with the fla file as all your workings will be done in code within the .as file.

The code explained

package{ this is a must and has to be written at the start of any class you write in AS3

These are a set of import staements for the classes within AS3 we are going to be using. notice where you use a * in your importstaments will import the entire class as oppose to just importing say the Sprite subclass

import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.*;

import flash.display.DisplayObject;

This is where you setup your class, (always name your classes the same as you .as file name !.) then the class extends the Sprite class functionalities

    public class RemoveChildTutorial extends Sprite{

       

Here we have declared a name that we wish to use for the Sprite

        private var sprite:Sprite;

This function draws out a circle in black and puts it onto the stage note addChild() has been used

        public function RemoveChildTutorial(){

            sprite = new Sprite();

            sprite.graphics.lineStyle(1, 0×000000);

            sprite.graphics.beginFill(0×000000, 1)

            sprite.graphics.drawCircle(265,200,50);

            sprite.graphics.endFill();

            addChild(sprite);

           

Here we have an event listener that will listen out for the click of a mouse

           

        addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseDown);

       

        }

       

       

As soon as the event listener hears the click of the mouse it tell the event handler to carry out its instructions as in this case the event handler is set to remove the circle from the stage when the mouse is clicked. As well as giving you a trace message saying "child has been removed".

        private function onMouseDown(event:MouseEvent):void{

            removeChild(sprite);

            trace("child has been removed");

            }

        }

    }

This is the final result please do comment and share your views thanks