Amount of overlapping objects

[Jacob]

Hey!

I am ressurecting an old project, and I plan to have it work in flash. Is there any way of counting the number of tiles(Active object) are overlapping another active without using the Select Active object?

[dsilvers]

Run a loop that increments a counter or an alterable value once every time an object overlaps it.

[Dynasoft]

Alternatively, create an object at 0,0 from each overlapping block, then count how many of them there are, then destroy them

[Jacob]

That seems by far the least resource intensive and most fun :P
Thanks!