shooting multiple bullets (AS3)

[ryrocks]

Hello everyone,
I'm trying to make my platform game character shoot a gun, my character and gun are one movieclip and the bullet is another. The bullet mc starts on a blank frame with a stop() function, when I press the space bar the bullet mc plays from frame 2 which is a motion tween of the bullet quickly moving across the page. I've set the bullet's y and x values relative to the character mc so that the bullet always comes from the gun.

My issue is that if I press the space bar a bullet will fly out of the gun (great!) but if I press the space bar again, the first bullet disappears and the bullet animation starts again. I want to be able to shoot a new bullet every time I press the space bar without effecting the bullets that have already been shot.

...

if(event.keyCode == Keyboard.SPACE)
{

bullet_right_mc.y = (ball_mc.y -38);
bullet_right_mc.x = (ball_mc.x + 253);
bullet_right_mc.gotoAndPlay("shoot");
}

...

Thanks

Ryan

[rrh]

I would maintain an array of bullets, create a Bullet class, and do something like this:

var newBullet:Bullet = new Bullet(x,y);
bulletList.push(newBullet);

[ryrocks]

Cheers for your help dude.
I added the class bullet and set a var bulletVar:

var bulletVar:bullet = new bullet();
this.addChild(bulletVar);
spaceDown = true;
bulletVar.y = (ball_mc.y -38);

Thanks again!