ActionScript 3.0 :: Accessing Dynamically Created Objects?

Mar 17, 2009

If objects are created dynamically in AS3, using code like this:

for (var num:Number = 0; num<10; num++){
var txtFld:TextField = new TextField();
txtFld.text = 'This is the original text';
this.addChild(txtFld);
}

then later, i want to changet the text of one of the TextFields, how can I do that? The only instance listed in the variables is a single instance of "txtFld" and it is the last one that is created. How can I access the others?

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