How can i access a MC inside another MC?

programming flash
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I’m trying to make an old fashioned 2D sidescroller game similar to the old Mario games, and i’m stuck with a lil problem: I want to add coins that can be collected by the player. I’ve made (with some help) a coin class that unloads the coins when the player touches them:

package 
{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.Event;

    public class Coin extends MovieClip
    {
        var character:MovieClip;

        public function Coin()
        {
            this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, update);
        }

        public function update(e:Event):void
        {
            character = MovieClip(root).character;
            if (this.hitTestObject(character))
            {
                this.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, update);
                parent.removeChild(this);
            }
        }
    }
}

This works fine when i drag coins onto the stage and walk into them, but the problem is that i want to place every instance into another movieclip called gameLevel, i want gameLevel to hold all of my other movieclips for the sake of scrolling. If i drag the coins into gameLevel i will get the access of undefined property error when i test the game. The code still works though, it unloads the coins, but i’m guessing that error probably is a bad thing :smirk:
Does anyone know how i can reference the coins when they are inside of gameLevel? :slight_smile: Thanks in advance! :beer: