Passing array data to timer function

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Greetings community…

This might be so simple I kind of feel sorry to post it.
But, I just can’t bend my mind over it and tackle this with supreme powers :frowning:
sad isn’t it…

heres the deal:

in a for loop i am passing 60 movieclips to the stage at runtime.
now after that I trigger a function that fires every second.
But inside that timer function, i can not trace what items are in my array
in other words, every second i want to trigger a movieclip inside the array.
(this will later destroy a random ipad or iphone processor :p)

heres my code:


var circle_array:Array;
var seconds_counter:uint = 0;
var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000);
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, runSeconds);

function posClips()
{
	for (i=0; i < 60; i++)
	{
		circle_array* = new _dot();//linkage in the library
		circle_array*.alpha = 0;
		circle_array*.x = 0 + (circle_array*.width + 1) *i
		circle_array*.y = (stage.stageHeight/2)
		addChild(circle_array*);
	}
	myTimer.start();
}

posClips();

function runSeconds(event:TimerEvent):void
{
	seconds_counter++;
	trace ("circle_array* = " + circle_array[seconds_counter]);
           //can't find the array

}

In AS2 this job was done by now, but in AS3 i duno how to tackle this.
any pointer is welcome.
Thanks for your time! seasons greetings :wink: