removing sprites from stage

[Spud_Nic]

Hi

I want to be able to, once a sprite has moved across the stage, to then be
removed, i.e. delete from the score, so it doesn't either keep moving/stop/turn
invisible etc (or whatever action I have been using until now).

Is this possible? I am using lingo to control everything from one frame rather
than using the timeline.

Hope you can help

[JB]

Setting the visible of the sprite to false pretty much takes it out of
the picture.

[Questy]

You can 'delete' a sprite simply by setting its member to void. You should also
tidy up the sprite channel, however, so that it will behave predictably when
you create a new sprite. I use a general 'delte sprite' handler in a movie
script and call it whenever I want to delete a dynamically created sprite. The
attached code was found (out there on the net somewhere, can't remember where)
and modified a bit. I can't take credit for it, but it is pretty simple stuff.

-- Reset all properties of puppeted sprite(n)
on ResetSprite n
if sprite(n).puppet=true then
puppetsprite n,false
spr=sprite(n)
spr.member=void
spr.visible=true
spr.blend=100
spr.rotation=0
spr.skew=0
spr.fliv=false
spr.fliph=flase
spr.color=rgb(0,0,0)
spr.bgcolor=rgb(255,255,255)
spr.scriptinstancelist=[]
end if
end