Why destroy() does not count to countDead() in group?

[notalentgeek]

I have this game I made. A character have a gun and it can shoot bullets, the bullets will gone after reach a distance of 100 pixels.

The bullets are in bullet group, of which I set to have only 50 bullets. And I used destroy(true); to every bullet that has passed 100 pixels. However when the bullet is destroyed it does not count to group's countDead(). Hence, countDead() is always 0 even though bullets have go though 100 pixels and got destroyed.

 

So my question is how can you destroy a group member and make it count to as in countDead()?

[rich]

Destroy literally destroys the instance of the Sprite, removing it from the Group in the process. If you want to re-use it again then you should kill() it and reset() it, rather than destroy it.

[notalentgeek]

Thanks rich!