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assuming you have a "hero_MC", "coin_MC" and a "score_MC" on the timeline

maybe something like this

// Add collision event to detect player
addEventListener(detectPlayer);

function detectPlayer(event){
if(coin.hitTestObject(root["heroMC"])){ // Test for collision between this MovieClip and the player

// Update the score box on the main timeline
root["score_mc"].score_txt.text = String(Number(root["score_mc"].score_txt.text)+100);

// Make the MovieClip invisible and remove the collision event
coin.visible = false;
removeEventListener("enterFrame", detectPlayer);
}
}

How do I use this...? You say that I need a score_MC, but in the code it sometimes refers to it as score_txt... So I'm confused. Plus why are there quotes around the instance names? Am I supposed to remove those?

I am trying to adapt from as3

root is referring to the main timeline if you are coding on the object itself.

the question on score_MC would be if you had a movie clip with both static and dynamic text
like the part that says money which never changes it would be static, the part that gets updated would be numerical and would be dynamic

so in essence score_MC has a box inside it that has the score_txt box



this might look a little cleaner, again I don't have your files and I'm trying to adapt from as3

addEventListener(detectPlayer);
function detectPlayer(event){
if(this.hitTestObject(root["heroMC"])){

root["score_mc"].score_txt.text = String(Number(root["score_mc"].score_txt.text)+100);

this.visible = false;
removeEventListener(detectPlayer);
}
}

I made an example here

hope it works