# Adding a child of a custom class?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-a-child-of-a-custom-class/240236>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 1, 2007, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-a-child-of-a-custom-class/240236 "2007-10-01T08:47:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![benkyoto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@benkyoto](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/benkyoto)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-a-child-of-a-custom-class/240236/1 "2007-10-01T08:47:32Z")

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Hope there is someone here kind and knowledgable enough to help me out with this.

I have a gallery that has several predetermined categories, each on with a button.  
The buttons are named with the “bt”+(gallery name) convention  
So, i got instance names like “btcolor”, “btsketch”, “bttape”. I subtract the first two letters and use the remaining substring to call the images in the gallery itself. The gallery images are named “color1”, “color2”,…  
I want to place a custom embelm in the header of each gallery. They include an illlustration, so generating them via AS is not an option. I have them in my library and chose to output them to AS in the properties dialog, using the naming convention “em”+(gallery name).  
Problem is I don’t know how to add a child of a dynamically determined class name.

**var simbolo:[“em”+destino] = new [“em”+destino];**

does not compile… I want the “simbolo” to be an instance of the class “em”+(class), depending on what the user clicks (ex: emcolor, emsketch…). They work if I reference them explicitly,

**var simbolo:emcolor= new emcolor();**

but how can I reference them dynamically?  
Any ideas?

Here’s the full code:

```auto
btcolord.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK,opengallery);
bttrend.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK,opengallery);
[...]

function opengallery(evt:Event):void
{
    var destino:String=evt.target.name.substring(2,evt.target.name.length);
    trace (destino);
    
    var square:Sprite = new Sprite();
    square.graphics.beginFill (0x000000,0.5);
    square.graphics.drawRect(0,0, stage.stageWidth-100,stage.stageHeight-100);
    square.graphics.endFill();
    var punto:Point = new Point(50,50);
    var punctum:Point = this.globalToLocal(punto);
    square.x=punctum.x;
    square.y=punctum.y;    
    addChild(square);
    
    var simbolo:["em"+destino] = new ["em"+destino];
    simbolo.x=punctum.x;
    simbolo.y=punctum.y;
    addChild(simbolo);
}

stop();

```