Controlling Instances [SOLVED]

I have a sprite called "Attractor" instances of this sprite have been copied a number of times within a scene

I have a sprite called "Bee" again with multiple instances.

I want to give the attractors two states "on" and "off" - every 5 seconds I want the system to pick one attractor at random and to turn it to "on" while turning the others "off"

At the same time, when an Attractor is "On" I want to tell the bees (which are physics objects) to apply force to the "On" Attractos position.

Does this make sense?

I can't figure it out. I don't know how to control different instances of the same object. Especially I don't know how to tell the Bees to move to the different instances of that same object.

its pretty easy

example

Pretty simple:

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8367729/construct/pics/beeeeees.png" border="0">

beeeeees.capx (r110.2)

ah too slow :)

haha yeah thats....pretty obvious.

I've never used 'pick'

Thanks guys :)

Gah I messed up

So there's another complication. The player character, when the player character gets close to an attractor and the attractor is "on" - I need the bees add force towards the player.

I've got distance(playerbase.X,playerbase.Y,attractor.X, attractor.y) to determine the distance but it seems to only apply to one of the attractors.

Any ideas?

Scratch that, figured it out :)

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3317708/vlcsnap-2012-11-28-20h27m13s21.png" border="0" />