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In AS3, display assets are not visible until they are added to the Display List. The AIR/Flash runtime has a hierarchical display structure (parent child relationship where children can have their own children), with the stage being the top level parent. To add something to the display list, you u...

There can be situations when you decide that one set of display objects should always be above another set of objects, for example, arrows over heads, explosions over something that just exploded, etc. To perform this as simple as possible, you need to designate and create a set of Sprites, arrange ...

If targeting Flash Player 11+, the built-in removeChildren method is the best way to remove all children: removeChildren(); //a start and end index can be passed For legacy applications, the same can be accomplished with a loop: while (numChildren > 0) { removeChildAt(0); }

Early on a Flash developer uses frames, as they are natively available in Flash player, to host various screens of their application (most often it's a game). Eventually they might stumble upon an issue that something goes wrong exactly because they have used frames, and overlooked the difficulties ...