Define alias for object in code

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Hi,

Don’t know if alias is the right word here but I would like to replace a long target path with short variable to make my code more readable/managable.

So I have the following (working) code but it’s getting really complicated :

function scaleUp(e:Event)
{
    if(MovieClip(root).radioButton_01.selected){
        MovieClip(root).movieclip_01.imageLoader_01.getChildAt(0).width = MovieClip(root).movieclip_01.imageLoader_01.getChildAt(0).width * 1.01;
        MovieClip(root).movieclip_01.imageLoader_01.getChildAt(0).height = MovieClip(root).movieclip_01.imageLoader_01.getChildAt(0).height * 1.01;
    }
    if(MovieClip(root).radioButton_02.selected){
        MovieClip(root).movieclip_02.imageLoader_02.getChildAt(0).width = MovieClip(root).movieclip_02.imageLoader_02.getChildAt(0).width * 1.01;
        MovieClip(root).movieclip_02.imageLoader_02.getChildAt(0).height = MovieClip(root).movieclip_02.imageLoader_02.getChildAt(0).height * 1.01;
    }
}

function scaleDown(e:Event):void
{
    if(MovieClip(root).radioButton_01.selected){
        MovieClip(root).movieclip_01.imageLoader_01.getChildAt(0).width = MovieClip(root).movieclip_01.imageLoader_01.getChildAt(0).width * 0.99;
        MovieClip(root).movieclip_01.imageLoader_01.getChildAt(0).height = MovieClip(root).movieclip_01.imageLoader_01.getChildAt(0).height * 0.99;
    }
    if(MovieClip(root).radioButton_02.selected){
        MovieClip(root).movieclip_02.imageLoader_02.getChildAt(0).width = MovieClip(root).movieclip_02.imageLoader_02.getChildAt(0).width * 0.99;
        MovieClip(root).movieclip_02.imageLoader_02.getChildAt(0).height = MovieClip(root).movieclip_02.imageLoader_02.getChildAt(0).height * 0.99;
    }
}

Now I would like to do something like this to reduce the enormous code above to a shorter code:

**Var image_01:"data type ?"** = MovieClip(root).movieclip_01.imageLoader_01.getChildAt(0)
**Var image_02:"data type ?"** = MovieClip(root).movieclip_02.imageLoader_02.getChildAt(0)

function scaleUp(e:Event)
{
    if(MovieClip(root).radioButton_01.selected){
        **? image_01**.width = image_01.width * 1.01;
        **? "image_01"**.height = image_01.height * 1.01;
    }
    if(MovieClip(root).radioButton_02.selected){
        **? [image_02]**.width = image_02.width * 1.01;
        **? (image_02)**.height = image_02.height * 1.01;
    }
}

So how can I put this long object path (MovieClip(root)…) into a short variable. I can’t find anything on which datatype to use or how to use such a variable in the code.

Thanks in advance.