XML GALLERY WONT EXIT

Question

I have an XML gallery that has been giving me some problems. My as3 refers to an .as file that is in itself a class. This class creates the gallery and has an event listener to exit the gallery when clicked. It works perfectly fine for exiting the main image, but my thumbnails don't budge. I fixed the thumbnail issue by adding the code removeChild, which removes the gallery completely, but freezes the main image. What I think is happening is that when I add the code removeChild it disables any communication between my swf and as files, which in turn skips over the eventListener to remove my main image.. the code is kind of long and complicated, but i was hoping for some advice.. tips.. anything.

Answer 1

thanks for the help!!
I'm still getting an error 2007 non null object, even though i declared it in same style in which i declared photo_bit.
take the following code for example...
stage.removeChild(stage.getChildByName("photo_bit"));
stage.removeChild(stage.getChildByName("thumb_btn"));
stage.removeChild(stage.getChildByName("thumb_bit"));
and yes I added it to my .as file
private function displaythumb(e:Event):void
     thumb_btn = new Sprite();
     thumb_bit= new Bitmap();
     thumb_btn.name="thumb_btn";
     thumb_bit.name="thumb_bit";
     thumb_btn.y=(stage.stageHeight-thumb_btn.height)/1.25;
     thumb_btn.graphics.beginFill(0x000000,0);
     thumb_btn.graphics.drawRect(0,0,125,125);
     thumb_btn.graphics.endFill();
     thumb_bit=e.target.content as Bitmap;
     thumb_bit.y=(stage.stageHeight-thumb_bit.height)/1.045;
     thumb_btn.width=thumb_btn.height=thumb_bit.width=thumb_bit.height=125;
     thumb_bit.smoothing=true;
     addChild(thumb_bit);
     addChild(thumb_btn);
     thumb_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,loadphoto);