Working with Instances

Question

I have a row of buttons within a container, all with instance
names. When one of the buttons is clicked and using a switch
statement, I want to navigate to a timeline frame and stop to
display the desired page. Could someone provide an example of AS
code?
The ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components reference is
great but there still is a lot missing in the process of coding in
AS.

Answer 1

If you could clarify your last statement with what I have
below would help. I when though about everything you did except
putting the string and casting the i into an array of this, Where,
would I be able to find this information without having previous
knowledge? It is this kind of stuff that is the glue that puts it
all together.
Two more questions, first when I set the expand value below
to 1 the button is to big, if it is set to 0.9, the button size
does not change much. I would like to have better control of the
buttons size.
The second question, I'm having problems with the
swapChildren() shown below, it has been used from the ActionScript
3.0 Bible page266. I get a "Parameter child must be non-null"
error.
Thanks Ned & kglad
var offSet:int = 20;
var expand:int = 1.01;
for (var i:int = 0; i <= 26; i++)
this["btnNorm" + String(i)].addEventListener
(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, swapSprites);
this["btnNorm" + String(i)].addEventListener
(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, expandCLBtn);
this["btnNorm" + String(i)].addEventListener
(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, shrinkCLBtn);
function expandCLBtn (e:MouseEvent):void
e.target.x = e.target.x - offSet;
e.target.scaleX += expand;
e.target.scaleY+=expand;
function shrinkCLBtn (e:MouseEvent):void
e.target.x=e.target.x+offSet;
e.target.scaleX-=expand;
e.target.scaleY-=expand;
function swapSprites (e:MouseEvent):void
swapChildren ((e.target as Sprite), getChildAt(numChildren
-1));
setChildIndex (e.target, numChildren - 1);
stop ();