Being new to AS3, I didn’t realise that removing a child from the display list does not kill all it’s listeners, sounds, and some other stuff I don’t know.

When it affected me, I stopped for a moment and thought why is it built this way. It is true that sometimes, after removing a child from the display list, you do want the listener to stay.

Yet, I don’t see why they didn’t create another function that lets user kill all listeners in a particular child before removing it.

Anyway, after being stuck at this problem for a few agonizing hours, I realised all I need to do, is actually create a if statement inside any listener I want to kill as well, that if it’s parent is already null, i.e. to say it is already removed, then it should kill itself!

A simple solution. Hopefully no new bugs turn up after implementing this as a solution. Keeping my fingers crossed.

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