Bounding Box Problem

What is the expected behavior?

1. Do you want hit test to performed on entire panel where all objects inside FallingThings instance are hit tested (dots and lines) or you need a hit test for dots only?

2. What do you need to do once hit is detected?

Also, where is the code that implements hittest? Did I miss it?

Instead of doing that, why not just read the size of the box (once), then chart a course to random x points within the box, with the y always going up?

sorry for losing sight of your other posting...  What you should do is look into using bitmapdata hitTest.  Search Google using terms like "bitmapdata hittest" and you will find a number of results that can help explain it.  Here is one of the results...

http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2009/06/24/using-bitmapdata-hittest-for-collision-detection/

And here is my code:

import flash.display.Graphics;

import flash.display.MovieClip;

import flash.events.Event;

import flash.events.TimerEvent;

import flash.utils.Timer;

var objectSpawner: Timer;

var fallers: Array;

function initGame(): void {

          fallers = [];

          objectSpawner = new Timer(1000);

          objectSpawner.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, createEnemy);

          objectSpawner.start();

          addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, dropEnemies);

}

function createEnemy(e: TimerEvent): void {

          var enemy: Faller = new Faller();

          enemy.y = -stage.stageHeight;

          enemy.x = Math.random() * 380;

          MovieClip(enemy).cacheAsBitmap = true;

          addChild(enemy);

          fallers.push(enemy);

          drawConnectors();

}

function dropEnemies(e: Event): void {

          trace(fallers.length);

          for each(var mc: Faller in fallers) {

                    mc.y += 10;

                    if (mc.y > stage.stageHeight * 2) fallers.splice(fallers.indexOf(removeChild(mc)), 1);

          }

          drawConnectors();

}

function drawConnectors(): void {

          if (fallers.length == 0) return;

          var g: Graphics = this.graphics;

          g.clear();

          g.lineStyle(10,0xFFFFFF);

          var mc: Faller = fallers[0];

          g.moveTo(mc.x, mc.y);

          for each(mc in fallers) g.lineTo(mc.x, mc.y);

}

init()

function init():void

{

          var fallingThingsLeft:FallingThings = new FallingThings(stage.stageWidth / 2, stage.stageHeight);

          var fallingThingsRight:FallingThings = new FallingThings(stage.stageWidth / 2, stage.stageHeight);

          addChild(fallingThingsLeft);

          addChild(fallingThingsRight);

          fallingThingsRight.x = stage.stageWidth / 2;

var score = 0;

score_txt.text = score;

import flash.events.Event;

this.addEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, handleCollision)

function handleCollision( e:Event ):void

{

if(fallingThingsLeft.hitTestObject(Touch1))

   {

   trace("HIT")

   updateScore();

   }

   else

   {

   trace("MISS")

   }

}

}

function updateScore ():void

{

score_txt.text += 1;

}

}