# Dynamic addChild

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-addchild/322478>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 23, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-addchild/322478 "2011-05-23T02:42:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![mike25620](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@mike25620](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mike25620)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-addchild/322478/1 "2011-05-23T02:42:55Z")

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I’m trying to make this character selection thing and I need to add the image of the character dynamically. Each character is a movieclip name Character1, Character2 and so on… I dont know everything about flash but I do my best, as far as I know I need to declare each as “var character1:Character1 = new Character1();” or similar and then “addChild(character1);”. I need to know how I can dynamically do this so that I can addChild based on “var characterNumber:String = “character”+Number;”.