Removing a movie clip from the stage - need help

I am learning AS3 after using AS2 for a long time. I'm making progress but need help. I have a simple Flash website with the sections laid out the timeline with labels. In one section called Media, I have a movie instance of a Flash movie gallery player. It loads just fine but when I leave that section to go to another, the sound of the video is still playing. Visually it's not seen but the sound still plays. I suspect I need to put some sort of remove commamnd in the script but I'm having trouble getting the right result.
I appreciate any help I can get with this.
Thanks!
BC

See if the following posting helps...
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/754549?tstart=0

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I have a layout segmented into labeled section. In the section labeled "products" I have a layout consisting of product images acting as buttons which bring a user to another labeled section "prdctsPopUps"
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var sourceVar_ProductsPopUps_fromXYZ:String;
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I was wondering if there was a way to add several instances
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I can do one with the following code placed on the button...
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Muhl,
> I was wondering if there was a way to add several
> instances of the same movie clip to the stage
> dynamically utilizing one button.
Sure thing.
> I can do one with the following code placed on the
> button...
>
> on (release) {
> attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled1", 5);
> filled1._x = 370;
> filled1._y = 225;
> }
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> But I want the user to be able to hit the button again
> and get yet another instance of "filledCircle" on the
> stage.
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and B) its own unique depth. In your example, the instance
name is filled1
and the depth is 5. The next clip's instance name should be
filled2 at a
depth of 6. Then filled3, depth 7, and so on. You can use a
single
variable to handle the incrementation.
// code in a frame
var counter:Number = 1;
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on (release) {
attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter, counter +
4);
With me so far? The variable counter contains the numeric
value 1. The
second parameter of attachMovie() is provided with a
concatenation of
"filled" + 1, which makes "filled1". The third parameter is
provided with
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a bit more.
The button must, in addition, increment the value of counter.
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operator handles this perfectly.
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> I also want the user to be able to drag these instances
> around...
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movie clips
here, so your best bet is to study up on the MovieClip class,
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defines all input
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very handy arrangement of the ActionScript 2.0 Language
Reference.)
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var counter:Number = 1;
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Reference, just
replace that with the instance name of your clip -- or a
reference to that
clip (which even includes the global "this" property).
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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rd

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        bnt_vocab_microscopic.mouseEnabled = false;
        addChild(word_Microscopic);
        word_Microscopic.x = 47;
        word_Microscopic.y = 120;
        word_Microscopic.play();
//This button takes the user to the Main Screen
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        gotoAndPlay("1","Main");
        stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, goButtonsHomeRead_1);
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        SoundMixer.stopAll();
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        stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, goButtonsHomeRead_1);
Here’s the code inside the movie clip.
//****************** Calls function to remove itself from the stage****************************
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