Controlling properties on items added to the stage in a loop

Question

Hi there,
I have a loop that adds xml elements to the stage (10). Once added, I need to control the items (checkbox = do something).
Here is where I add them to the stage.
          private function createLayout():void {
               container = new VBox();
               for(var i:int=0; i<10; i++) {
                    vBox = new VBox();
                    hBox = new HBox();
                    titleText = new LinkButton();
                    itemInfo = new Text();
                    abstract = new Text();
                    archive = new CheckBox();
                    rateItem = new ComboBox();
                    category = new ComboBox();
                    var categoryLabels:Array = new Array("Food & Ag","News","Health","People","General","What's Coming","Biofuel","Environment");
                    var rateLabels:Array = new Array("Excellent","Good","Bad","Neutral","Controversial");
                    titleText.label = listCollection.getItemAt(i).title;
                    titleText.width = 400;
                    itemInfo.text = listCollection.getItemAt(i).source + " | " + listCollection.getItemAt(i).date;
                    abstract.text = listCollection.getItemAt(i).abstract;
                    abstract.width = 400;
                    archive.label = "Archive";
                    category.prompt = "Category";
                    category.dataProvider = categoryLabels;
                    category.rowCount = categoryLabels.length;
                    rateItem.prompt = "Rate";
                    rateItem.dataProvider = rateLabels;
                    vBox.addChild(titleText);
                    vBox.addChild(itemInfo);
                    vBox.addChild(abstract);
                    vBox.addChild(hBox);
                    hBox.addChild(archive);     
                    hBox.percentWidth = 80;
                    hBox.percentHeight = 80;
                    archive.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, toggleArchive);                    
                    container.addChild(vBox);
               addChild(container);
I listen for a checkbox (change event) and when clicked, call a function that adds two comboboxes to the stage.
archive.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, toggleArchive);     
I then call the function that will handle the event.
          public function toggleArchive(e:Event):void {
               if(archive.selected == true){
                    hBox.addChild(category);
                    hBox.addChild(rateItem);                    
               else {
                    hBox.removeChild(category);
                    hBox.removeChild(rateItem);
When I have one item it works fine.
for(var i:int=0; i<1; i++) {
When I add 10 nothing happens. I feel like i should be doing something to identify what item I'm referring to. Any thoughts/reccomendations would br great!

Answer 1

My apologies, but I am somewhat confused. Thanks for taking the time to help me (first off)!
I changed the createLayout function to add name, visible, and includeInLayout propertiesfor each comboBox. I then changes the scope of "i" so that I can reference it from the function called upon the Event.CHANGE event.
          private var i:Number;
          private function createLayout():void {
               container = new VBox();
               for(var i=0; i<listCollection.length; i++) {
                    vBox = new VBox();
                    hBox = new HBox();
                    titleText = new LinkButton();
                    itemInfo = new Text();
                    abstract = new Text();
                    archive = new CheckBox();
                    rateItem = new ComboBox();
                    category = new ComboBox();
                    var categoryLabels:Array = new Array("Food & Ag","News","Health","People","General","What's Coming","Biofuel","Environment");
                    var rateLabels:Array = new Array("Excellent","Good","Bad","Neutral","Controversial");
                    titleText.label = listCollection.getItemAt(i).title;
                    titleText.width = 400;
                    itemInfo.text = listCollection.getItemAt(i).source + " | " + listCollection.getItemAt(i).date;
                    abstract.text = listCollection.getItemAt(i).abstract;
                    abstract.width = 400;
                    archive.label = "Archive";
                    category.prompt = "Category";
                    category.name = "category";
                    category.dataProvider = categoryLabels;
                    category.rowCount = categoryLabels.length;
                    category.visible = false;
                    category.includeInLayout = false;
                    rateItem.prompt = "Rate";
                    rateItem.name = "rateItem";
                    rateItem.dataProvider = rateLabels;
                    rateItem.visible = false;
                    rateItem.includeInLayout = false;
                    vBox.addChild(titleText);
                    vBox.addChild(itemInfo);
                    vBox.addChild(abstract);
                    vBox.addChild(hBox);
                    hBox.addChild(archive);    
                    hBox.addChild(category);
                    hBox.addChild(rateItem);
                    hBox.percentWidth = 80;
                    hBox.percentHeight = 80;
                    archive.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, toggleArchive);                   
                    container.addChild(vBox);
               addChild(container);
now I have to modify these items by name from the toggleArchive method.
          public function toggleArchive(e:Event):void {
               if(archive.selected == true){
                    var cb:ComboBox = hBox.getChildAt(i).getChildByName(category);
                    cb.visible = true;
                    cb.includeInLayout = true;
               else {
Two things, 1) i get an error saying...
Severity and Description    Path    Resource    Location    Creation Time    Id
1061: Call to a possibly undefined method getChildByName through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObject.    mediaTrap/src/components    listItems.mxml    line 132    1242667335601    643
2) shouldnt it be something like this
          public function toggleArchive(e:Event):void {
               if(hBox.getChildAt(i).archive.selected == true){
                    var cb:ComboBox = hBox.getChildAt(i).getChildByName(category);
                    cb.visible = true;
                    cb.includeInLayout = true;
               else {