Want to clear contents of stage in actionscript 3

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I am new to flash and actionscript.
I have added some movie clips to the stage using addChild method on Some Mouse Events.

Now on an event say Mouse Double Click I want to clean the stage.

I checked the Stage class from reference it does not have any method called clear.
Neither I have stored the references of the objects, so that i can clear them using removeChild()

How to go about?

Best Answer

I would recommend keeping the references of the objects in an array.

Barring that, you could do this (off the top of my head):

while(numChildren > 0) {
    removeChildAt(0);
}

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After posting, I noticed that I had not declared the loop counter variable (x). I declared it, and the strange rendering is gone. I wonder why it just didn't give me an undeclared variable error?

Here's the fixed code:

        private function setupSlides():void 
    {
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        {
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    }

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