Clearing the stage and starting again

[maxelcat]

Hi
I have a simple flash file that allows you to place a star on the stage wherever you press the mouse. Fine. You can then roll over a button and the whole lot disappears.

What it wont do is then start placing more stars on the stage - kind of like starting again.

What I thought was:
[ul]
[li]creating an empty mc called holdingClip[/li]
[li]attacing all the stars to it.[/li]
[li]use removeMovieClip(holdingClip) to get rid of them all[/li]
[li]re-create holdingClip again in order to start again. This doesn't seem to work.[/li]
[/ul]

My question is. How do I go about clearing the stage, and "Starting again"? Perhpas I am going about this completely wrong?

thanks as ever in advance!
Edward

var placeClip:Object = new Object();
var xCoord:Number;
var yCoord:Number; 
var i:Number = 0;

var coord:Array = new Array;
Mouse.addListener(placeClip);
//a clip to hold all the added movies
this.createEmptyMovieClip("holdingClip",this.getNextHighestDepth());

//small code to remove all the stars by rolling over the button with instance name clear
clear.onRollOver = function():Void {
	removeMovieClip(holdingClip);	
//	this is the line I thought I would need - but it doesn't work!!!
	this.createEmptyMovieClip("holdingClip",this.getNextHighestDepth());
}

placeClip.onMouseDown = function() {
	coord=getCoord();
	trace (coord[0]+" "+coord[1]);
	i++;
	addNewMovie(coord[0],coord[1],i);
}


function getCoord():Array {
	var fred:Array = new Array;
	fred[0]=_xmouse;
	fred[1]=_ymouse;
	return fred;
}

function addNewMovie(x:Number,y:Number,index:Number) {
	var newPic:MovieClip;
	newPic=holdingClip.attachMovie("star","star"+index,holdingClip.getNextHighestDepth());
	newPic._x=x;
	newPic._y=y;
}

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[billwatson]

looks like this is wrong in the context

try replacing with _root

clear.onRollOver = function():Void {
removeMovieClip(holdingClip);
// this is the line I thought I would need - but it doesn't work!!!
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("holdingClip",this.getNextHighestDepth());
}

 

[maxelcat]

thanks for that!

Worked immediately!

Edward

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