SendMessage after Instantiation

How would you go about sending a message to an object that has just been instantiated? For example, I want to instantiate a bullet with a script with a "strength" value attached to it. But I want the strength value to be edited by the script of the object firing it so I can use the same bullet object but with different strengths.

What I did was this:

Instantiate(bullet,transform.position,transform.rotation);bullet.SendMessage("SetStrength", 200.0);

But it doesn't seem to work - and I think I know why. What I don't know is, how to make it work.


Any help would be greatly welcomed, thank you!

 

var tempBullet : gameObject = Instantiate(bullet,transform.position,transform.rotation);

tempBullet.SendMessage("SetStrength", 200.0);

Syntax may be incorrect, there may be more efficient ways of doing this.

 

You're my hero. Thank you! That worked!