Programming beginner! Help with multiple objects?

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Hi, I’m new to programming, and i’ve run into a problem that I can’t seem to figure out, so any help you guys could give me would be really appreciated!

I’m trying to put together a simple program where a ball object (which follows the mouse) collides with dots (which spawn on the screen every second), making them explode - the problem i’m getting is that only the most recently spawned dot reacts to the ball; I included a test function that removes dots if they’re clicked, and this seems to work for all of them - so my question is, how do I make the ball affect all of the dots?

Here’s the code i’ve put together!


 
//counter value
i = 0
 
//spawn dots
dotSpawn = function(){
 
//increment counter 
i++
 
//attach dot mc
_root.attachMovie("dot", "dot_" + i, 10 + i);
 
//establish current dot identifier
currentDot = eval("dot_" + i);
 
  currentDot._x = Math.random() * Stage.width;
  currentDot._y = Math.random() * Stage.height;
  currentDot.index = i
  //trace("hi");
 
  //test function - remove dot by clicking
  currentDot.onRelease = function(){
    this.removeMovieClip();
  } // end onRelease
 
 
}//end dotSpawn
 
//spawn dots every second
setInterval(dotSpawn, 1000) ;
 
ball.onEnterFrame = function(){
 //ball follows mouse movement
 ball._x = _root._xmouse;
 ball._y = _root._ymouse;
 
 if(ball.hitTest(currentDot)){
  //if ball collides with dot, attach explosion mc, remove dot mc
  _root.attachMovie("splode", "splode1", 10);
  splode1._x = currentDot._x;
  splode1._y = currentDot._y;
 
currentDot.removeMovieClip();
 }
}

Thanks in advance!