mouse trail tutorial

[CtrlZ]

I have been using the following tutorial on this site and wonder if anyone can let me know how I would remove the effect when the user clicks a button to move to another part of the site?

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/mousetrailer.htm

thanks to all in advance!

[blah-de-blah]

You could use removeMovieClip();, or maybe making it:

on (press) {
Text = ""
}


that should work i think

[CtrlZ]

the section of code for creating the Movieclip is as follows:

for (var LTR = 0; LTR<letters.length; LTR++) {
mc = _root.createEmptyMovieClip(LTR+"l", LTR);

I have been tying to use removeMovieClip(); but am unsure what should go in the brackets since all the movie clips are created using a loop.

[Voetsjoeba]

They were created in a for loop using _root.createEmptyMovieClip(letters[L], L), so to remove them you use the same for loop with removeMovieClip:



for (var i=0; i<letters.length; i++) {
_root[letters[i]].removeMovieClip()
}


That's all. I've attached an example FLA for you.

[CtrlZ]

You're a star!!

Thank you

[CtrlZ]

That worked brilliantly in a completely new movie but not in the one I am working on for some reason, the following mouse trail works in the project I am working on but the button code that Voetsjoeba kindly gave me dosen't

can anyone help with this?

I am sorry I am being such a newbie!!

Text = "kirupa";
letters = Text.split("");
letterformat = new TextFormat();
letterformat.font = "AGaramond";
letterformat.align = "center";
letterformat.size = "24";
spacing = 8;
speed = 3;
for (var LTR = 0; LTR<letters.length; LTR++) {
mc = _root.createEmptyMovieClip(LTR+"l", LTR);
mc.createTextField(letters[LTR]+"t", LTR, LTR*spacing, 10, 20, 32);
with (mc[letters[LTR]+"t"]) {
text = letters[LTR];
setTextFormat(letterformat);
selectable = false;
}
if (LTR) {
mc.prevClip = _root[(LTR-1)+"l"];
mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += (this.prevClip._x-this._x+5)/speed;
this._y += (this.prevClip._y-this._y)/speed;
};
} else {
mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += (_root._xmouse-this._x+10)/speed;
this._y += (_root._ymouse-this._y)/speed;
};
}
}

[Voetsjoeba]

I see the problem. The sample FLA from the tutorial (the file I modified) uses other names than the the code the tutorials gives. The new code is:



removeEm.onRelease = function() {
for (var i = 0; i<letters.length; i++) {
_root[i+"l"].removeMovieClip();
}
};


Example file: