Selecting Items from an Inventory

Question

So you start off with all of the items in the inventory. You do not have to collect them.
I  have 8 MovieClips on the stage each with a different instance name. I  made a class called Rebound and linked all the inventory MoivieClips to  the Rebound class as the base class. they each have their own unique  class.
What I'm trying to do is select one of them. when you release the mouse off the movie clip (MOUSE_UP)
it goes to frame 2 of its movieclip and making a variable I made up called isSelected = true.
but  when you click another item in the inventory I want it to deselect the  item you clicked first so it goes back to frame 1 and isSelected =  false. The problem I'm having is that it selects the first item when you  click it. But when I click another the first stays on frame 1 and  isSelected stays true. So if I click all 8 in a row they all become  selected.
here's the class
Code:
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
public class Rebound extends MovieClip {
public var isSelected:Boolean;
public function Rebound():void {
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, starting);
public function starting(e:MouseEvent):void {
this.isSelected = false;
this.gotoAndStop(1);
e.currentTarget.gotoAndStop(2);
e.currentTarget.isSelected = true;
I thought this. called on every movieclip of the Rebound class?
So  instead of this. if there is something that can choose all of the  movieclips that belong to the Rebound class I think I could use that  instead. If there is such thing.
Help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

you can create a static array to keep track of all class members:
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
public class Rebound extends MovieClip {
public var isSelected:Boolean;
public static var a:Array=[]
public function Rebound():void {
a.push(this);
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, starting);
public function starting(e:MouseEvent):void {
// iterate through a and deselect all but "this"
this.isSelected = false;
this.gotoAndStop(1);
e.currentTarget.gotoAndStop(2);
e.currentTarget.isSelected = true;