Remove a MovieClip located inside another MovieClip using AS from stage

Question

I have two movieclips.

First movieclip is on the stage with an instance name: main

Second movieclip is inside the first movieclip, with an instance name: temp_bar

From the stage I want to remove the movieclip named "temp_bar"

main.removeChild(temp_bar) and removeChild(main.temp_bar) from stage doesn't work.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Assuming temp_bar is an instance name, try using:

main.removeChild(main.getChildByName("temp_bar"));

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If there only one child to main always, use:

main.removeChildAt(0);