Reference to an object by String(ID)?

Question

I am trying to build a glow container/manager in order to
turn off and turn on appropriate component. In fact, when a
specific component respond to a click, it will be glowed. But if
the user click on another specific component, the previous glowed
should unglow and the new one will be glowed.
Now, to do this, I created a class with 2 elements:
objReference:String and glowActive:Boolean. I also created an
ArrayCollection of all the component that can respond to the glow
effect and put them inside like this:
objReference = [object].ID
And every component get FALSE for glowActive at the
initiation of the ArrayCollection.
I have a problem with the recognization of the object ID.
When I tried to play the glow using the objReference, the system
indicate the following error:
TypeError: Error #1006: value is not a function.
at
mx.effects::EffectInstance/play()[E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effec ts\EffectInstance.as:584]
at
mx.effects.effectClasses::GlowInstance/play()[E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\ src\mx\effects\effectClasses\GlowInstance.as:194]
at
mx.effects::EffectInstance/startEffect()[E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\m x\effects\EffectInstance.as:569]
at
mx.effects::Effect/play()[E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\Effec t.as:930]
at accueil/setCategoryGlowIn()[C:\Documents and Settings\DJ
FYB\My
Documents\CharlesValcourt\includes\charlesvalcourt_logique.as:303]
at accueil/clickCategoryBox()[C:\Documents and Settings\DJ
FYB\My
Documents\CharlesValcourt\includes\charlesvalcourt_logique.as:282]
I am a bit confuse on how to call an object by reference and
stored the referene of the object in somewhere else (in my case, in
a ArrayCollection).

Answer 1

Youpi!!! I found how to made it!!!
First, I finally have to make the property objReference in my
class GlowObjectReferencer as an Object in order to work.
Than, I have to pass myHB as the Object (which, if I
understand properly, will put a reference of the current Object
into the new class Object).
var _objReference:GlowObjectReferencer = new
GlowObjectReferencer (myHB, false);
And when I run my functions to manage the Glow FX
(setAllCategoryGlowOut and setCategoryGlowIn), it is now working
fine!!!
I am so happy now! I knew it was possible but in my mind, it
was just not logic to store an Object in the class but it seems
that it is what I need to do! But just to make sure: what I pass to
the class GlowObjectReferencer as the first property is only the
reference to myHB? Not a copy of myHB; right?
Again, thank Tracy because you force me to find the way to do
it!!! ;-))