Access to "global" var in ActionScript 3.0 - AIR application - class

Question

In a AIR Mobile application I have this code:
import character.*;
var player_1 = new characterObject("Player 1");
var player_2 = new characterObject("Player 2");
In the package class:
package character {
public class characterObject extends MovieClip {
public var characterName: Number;
public var playerCounter: Number = 0;
public function characterObject(myName: String) {
characterName = myName;
playerCounter++;
}
}
Can I access to player_1.playerCounter property inside player_2 object istance?
I need to increes the value of players only if total_player (a var that I want create as sum of player_1.playerCounter + player_2.playerCounter + player_n.playerCounter ...) is < of x.

Answer 1

Bad idea.
Yo can try next thing
package character {
public class CharactersModel extends Object{
private var _chars : Array = [];
public function addCharacter(char : characterObject) {
_chars.push(char);
}
public function getChars() : Array {
return _chars;
}
public function getCharByName(name : String ) : characterObject {
//select from array and return
//use it instead of null
return null;
}
}
}
and update characterObject like this
private var _model : CharactersModel;
public function characterObject(model : CharactersModel ,myName: String) {
_model = model;
characterName = myName;
playerCounter++;
model.addCharacter(this);
}
public function getOtherChar(name : String) {
return _model.getCharByName(name);
}
and finally
import character.*;
var model : CharactersModel = new CharactersModel();
var player_1 = new characterObject(model ,"Player 1");
var player_2 = new characterObject(model ,"Player 2");

Answer 2

I would create a vector to hold character instances outside of the characterObject class. Then you could refer to the length of the vector for the current amount.
var characters:Vector.<characterObject> = new Vector.<characterObject>();
characters.push( new characterObject("Player 1") );
characters.push( new characterObject("Player 2") );
trace( characters.length ); // 2