Select all thumbnails to the left and right of target_mc

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I’m trying to work on a thumbnail scroller that when you click on the thumbnail, it expands in size and nudges all the thumbs left or right of it further to the left or right.

How can I target the all the thumbs to either side of the selected one?

I tried something like thumbs[‘t’+(i-1)] and thumbs[‘t’+(i+1)], but of course that only selects the ones immediately to the left and right.

I’m creating the thumbnails like this:

for(i=0;i<total-1;i++) {
thumbs.attachMovie(“t_mc”,“t”+i,i);
}

Any help would be wonderful.

Thanks guys
Igby