android - AS3 Game, Collecting points, multiple movie clips with the same instance name, not working -

i've decided create android touch screen game. complete , utter beginner , learning go.

my game has little elephant moves when press , hold on screen , falls when there no contact screen. aim collect many peanuts fly past possible gain highest score. pretty simple, you'd think so.

so far, i've managed point elephant can collide peanut , peanut disappears.

my issue right is, can't create more 1 peanut, same instance name of "peanut" because 1 work , others not recognized. i've done ole google search , nothing has given me right way go. give me clear answer of or go here?

if need more info, code or picture of i've got far understand let me know :)

• samantha

instance name must unique, , cannot use instance name find set of movie clips. should instead use array, , @ creating peanut add there using push(), , @ collecting peanut, splice out.

in fact, whenever multi-instance class similar functionality (aka "collect"), use array store references of these, know all of instances accessible through array.

how work arrays

a sample code:

var peanuts:array=new array(); function addpeanut(x:number,y:number):void {     var peanut:peanut=new peanut(); // make peanut, somewhere     peanut.x=x;     peanut.y=y;     peanuts.push(peanut); // array plays role     game.addchild(peanut); // let displayed. "game" whatever container     // have contain peanuts. } function removepeanut(i:int):void {      // give index in array, it's better giving peanut     var peanut:peanut=peanuts[i]; // array reference of peanut     peanuts.splice(i,1); // remove reference array given index     game.removechild(peanut); // , remove actual peanut display } function checkforpeanuts():void {     // call every often, @ least once after peanuts , player move     (var i:int=peanuts.length-1; i>=0; i--) {         // going through peanuts in array         var peanut:peanut=peanuts[i];         if (player.hittestobject(peanut)) {             // of course, proper reference of "player"!             // yay got 1 of peanuts!             // scoring done             // special effects, if             removepeanut(i); // remove peanut         }     } }