Hittesting against a level building array - arrays

Question

I'm building a top down (birds eye view) game in flash, a fairly simple concept, a la early Legend of Zelda or Final Fantasy games. I have the level built and the character added and moveable, with a scrolling camera, yet one problem vexes me. Hittesting.
The level is created using an array- a simple [1,1,1]; array, where it checks to see if a value in the array matches, then creates a simple square Sprite and adds it to a larger Sprite that holds every item. Finally, the player is then added to the stage and can be controlled using the arrow keys. I'm using this as a movement system:
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, checkDown);
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, checkUp);
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, update);
function checkDown(e:KeyboardEvent):void {
switch (e.keyCode) {
case 65 :
leftDown = true;
break;
case 37 :
leftDown = true;
break;
case 68 :
rightDown = true;
break;
case 39 :
rightDown = true;
break;
case 87 :
upDown = true;
break;
case 38 :
upDown = true;
break;
case 83 :
downDown = true;
break;
case 40 :
downDown = true;
break;
}
}
function checkUp(e:KeyboardEvent):void {
switch (e.keyCode) {
case 65 :
leftDown = false;
break;
case 37 :
leftDown = false;
break;
case 68 :
rightDown = false;
break;
case 39 :
rightDown = false;
break;
case 87 :
upDown = false;
break;
case 38 :
upDown = false;
break;
case 83 :
downDown = false;
break;
case 40 :
downDown = false;
break;
}
}
function update(e:Event):void {
if (upDown) {
if (genericHolder.y >= boundariesLevelOne[(room*4) - 4]) {
genericHolder.y = boundariesLevelOne[(room*4) - 4];
Player.y-=power;
}
if (genericHolder.y < boundariesLevelOne[(room*4) - 4]) {
genericHolder.y+=power;
}
Player.Stand.visible = false;
Player.Forwards.visible = false;
Player.Rights.visible = false;
Player.Lefts.visible = false;
Player.Backwards.visible = true;
playerDirection = 2;
}
if (downDown) {
if (genericHolder.y <= boundariesLevelOne[(room*4) - 3]) {
genericHolder.y = boundariesLevelOne[(room*4) - 3];
Player.y+= power;
}
if (genericHolder.y > boundariesLevelOne[(room*4) - 3]) {
genericHolder.y-=power;
}
Player.Stand.visible = false;
Player.Backwards.visible = false;
Player.Rights.visible = false;
Player.Lefts.visible = false;
Player.Forwards.visible = true;
playerDirection = 1;
}
if (leftDown) {
if (genericHolder.x >= boundariesLevelOne[(room*4) - 2]) {
genericHolder.x = boundariesLevelOne[(room*4) - 2];
Player.x -= power;
}
if (genericHolder.x < boundariesLevelOne[(room*4) - 2]) {
genericHolder.x+=power;
}
Player.Stand.visible = false;
Player.Backwards.visible = false;
Player.Forwards.visible = false;
Player.Rights.visible = false;
Player.Lefts.visible = true;
playerDirection = 4;
}
if (rightDown) {
if (genericHolder.x <= boundariesLevelOne[(room*4) - 1]) {
genericHolder.x = boundariesLevelOne[(room*4) - 1];
Player.x += power;
}
if (genericHolder.x > boundariesLevelOne[(room*4) - 1]) {
genericHolder.x-=power;
}
Player.Stand.visible = false;
Player.Backwards.visible = false;
Player.Forwards.visible = false;
Player.Lefts.visible = false;
Player.Rights.visible = true;
playerDirection = 3;
}
if (!upDown && !downDown && !leftDown && !rightDown) {
Player.Backwards.visible = false;
Player.Forwards.visible = false;
Player.Rights.visible = false;
Player.Lefts.visible = false;
Player.Stand.visible = true;
Player.Stand.gotoAndStop(playerDirection);
}
if (Player.Stand) {
Player.Stand.gotoAndStop(playerDirection);
}
}
TL;DR The background moves instead of the player, and movement is controlled by variables.
How can I Hittest against any of the sprites that I've added? At the moment, if I try to Hittest a specific Sprite, it tests agains the entire Sprite holder, not the specific Sprite I want.

Answer 1

Are you using the hittest method?
http://www.actionscriptmoron.com/AS3Tutorials/hittest-hittestobject/
What do you mean it tests again the entire sprite holder just get the reference of the contained object and pass it to the hittest method. it should work.