flash actionscript: Can anyone explain why I cannot get the "removeTextField()" to work all the
time?? I am creating a TextField at runtime using the ActionScript:

this.createTextField("cMagnitude",this.getNextHighestDepth(),546,195,100,30);

the TextField is being successfully created. Then, at a later frame I have
input the script:

this.cMagnitude.removeTextField();

this seems incredibly simple, but the text box will not dissapear when the
frame is executed. Any answers??
:confused;

It works here.

Try creating a new blank file and testing the code by itself. If it works I
would say something is wrong with your Movie.

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I was wondering if you are using functions in your code. I am trying to do
something similar and I am having the same trouble (and I am also using
functions). I found that if I change my_mc.getNextHighestDepth() to a 1 then
the removeTextField works properly.

Sample of my code:

function createTextBlock(x:Number, mainClip_mc:MovieClip):Void
{
mainClip_mc.createTextField("intersection"+x+"_txt",
mainClip_mc.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 70, 20);
mainClip_mc["intersection"+x+"_txt"].text = "Intersection "+(x+1);
}

function removeTextBlock(x:Number, mainClip_mc:MovieClip):Void
{
mainClip_mc["intersection"+x+"_txt"].removeTextField();
}

Then I just call:

createTextBlock(0,_root);
this.begin_btn.onRelease = function(){
removeTextBlock(0, _root);
}

As I said before, this works when I physically choose the depth as 1.
Unfortunately, I have many Text Fields to create and I need to use
getNextHighestDepth().

I hope you have found your solution and you or somebody else can help me with
my problem.

-Troy

Hi.
I have the same probloms. My button will do anything - including altering the
text field!! - but will not remove it. I wonder if indeed it is something to do
with functions - I use them everywhere.
God, there is so much to dislike in the new actionScript even without the
bugs. Geez!

Are you by chance using any Flash UI components?

Place this at the very end of your action script:

for (thingy in _root) {
trace("hi I name is " + thingy + " and my depth is " +
_root[thingy].getDepth());
}

test the file and cut and paste the result you get

You are right! I forgot about this stupid thing!
My solution is to use something like this:

var nDepth:Number = this.getNextHighestDepth() - 20;
this.createTextField("tDataMassage", nDepth, 222, 35, 500, 335);

Personally, I think that Macromedia had a large team of very smart man that
gathered before this Flash release, with one goal: mess actionScript as much as
possible. Hey, they did pretty good job!

If I were you I would investigate a more convenient solution. Since you did not
cut and paste, I can only guess what you found but, just as an example, you
might try something like:

focusManager.swapDepths(-1001);
reserved.swapDepths(-1002);

get those clips down to depths where they will not interfere with
getNextHighestDepth. I have also tried removing the focusManager clip but found
that it does have consequences (some - but not all - of them are actually good
consequences BTW).

as with most of these complaints... it can usually be traced back to a
reference path issue.

Jack trades... yours can be fixed in one place...
change :

this.begin_btn.onRelease = function(){
removeTextBlock(0, _root);
}

to:

this.begin_btn.onRelease = function(){
this._parent.removeTextBlock(0, _root);
}

you are inside a different timeline to where the function resides... you need
to get outside one _parent and it will work.

I haven't seen enough code from the original poster to see exactly where his
'this' is when he is trying to remove the textField but I am guessing from the
fact that it fails, he isn't on the same timeline as when it was created...
either that or the remove is inside a movieClips onRelease event and the this
is referencing the buttons timeline and not the parent as explained above.

I hope that helps.

cheers,

mandingo:
As far as my case goes, the blame is that using components subtoge the smooth
operation of the getNextHighestDepth().

rlc5611:
Thanks, mate! I'll try to figure out what your work-around, but mine is very
simple (even simplistic) - since the problom is with the max number, I just
subtract something from it, say 20:
var n = this.getNextHighestDepth() - 20;

and then use the variable instead of the

Below is the code I am trying to use to delete a text fields when a user
selects a new set of data. If there is a bug within the system, is there a
good work around for deleting the text fields?
The text fields are being created dynamically each time a user selects a
button which is contained in a scroll pane.
I have to delete the text fields before the new ones are created, or the new
ones will create over top the first ones.

ActionScript:
var numLen:Number=Number(_global.prevItmTotal);
for(var r:Number = 0; r < numLen; r++){
reserveInfo_mc["item_" +(r+1)].removeTextField();
reserveInfo_mc.removeTextField(["item_" +(r+1)]);
}


how I create the text fields:

var counter = 0;
var num1:Number=Number(this.ButtonText_txt.text);
var depth = num1;

for(var q:Number = 0; q < this.itemTotal; q++){
var x = 0;//445
var y = 150;//205
reserveInfo_mc.createTextField("item_" +(q+1), depth, x, y+counter, 100,
20, {fontFamily:"Arial", fontSize:"10"});
reserveInfo_mc["item_" +(q+1)].font = "arial";//getNextHighestDepth()
reserveInfo_mc["item_" +(q+1)].text=this["item_" +(q+1)];
counter += 15;
depth = depth + 1; //+=
}


Please help me!!!

dan

Well, i have been having problems with this also, but i found a very easy
solution that works perfectly for me:

Making a textfield:

function Output(X,Y,T,C) //X position by box, Y position by box, Text, Color
{
TextStyle = new TextFormat();
TextStyle.color = C;
TextStyle.size = "20";
TextStyle.font = "_typewriter";
TextStyle.bold = true;
this.createTextField("NewText" + TextBoxCode, TextBoxCode, X, Y, (T.length *
13)+2, 26.6)
this["NewText" + TextBoxCode].html = true;
this["NewText" + TextBoxCode].htmlText = T;
this["NewText" + TextBoxCode].setTextFormat(TextStyle);
TextBoxCode = TextBoxCode+1;
}

Removing the texboxes (This is also in a function):

while(TextBoxCode <> 0)
{
this["NewText" + (TextBoxCode-1)].removeTextField();
TextBoxCode = TextBoxCode-1;
}

NOTE: I TextBoxCode as depth setter, now the reason it did not work before is
because i did not subtract 1 when i tried to remove the textfield >
this["NewText" + (TextBoxCode-1)]

Maybe that is what is going on for you guys...for me this works perfectly