hitTest repeating ...

[justinc]

I have several objects in a separate movie and want to perform a hitTest with them and my other object 'knexman' which is noted below in the script.
Basically what's happening is that when I trace the output of the hitTest, it increments about 5 or 6 at a time with each enemy collision running into the knexman object. All I want to do is when objects run into the 'knexman', to increment and trace it by one. Once I get it to increment by one I can accurately conditionalize how many lives are left etc.




onClipEvent (load) {


function reset(){
this._y=0;
this._x=random(600)+300;
enemySpeed=random(15)+5;
this.gotoAndStop(1);
}

reset();

}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._y+=enemySpeed;

if (this._y>800) {
reset();
}


hitting = false;
cntr = 0;

if (_root.knexman.hitTest(_x, _y, true))
{

if (!hitting)
{
cntr = 1;
trace(cntr);
hitting = true;

_root.remove_life_from_stage("life", --_root.tries_remain);
_parent.knexman.gotoAndPlay(145);

}
else
{
hitting = false;
}

}
}