tweenMax object in loop?

programming flash
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Hey! This may look like a long post but you may not have to read throught the whole thing…

I have created a textfield within a loop and put it in a sprite called textHolder. I loaded images in the same loop and put them in a container called imageHolder. The containers are assigned to the buttons button created by the loop. This works all great. But the thing that I am having trouble with is being able to tweenMax one of the holders. for example: I have a tweenMax that scales b1 (the first buttons created from the loop) by 3x. But I also need the text to fade out without the image fading out. So I tried just putting a tween on textHolder but nothin’ happens!

Maybe there is some rule here that I am missing that says I cant do that? If not, I dont know what I am doing wrong. here is some of my code:


		public function placePictures():void {
				
			var ba:Array = new Array();
			ba.push(b1,b2,b3,b4,b5);
			for(var i:uint=0;i<ba.length;i++) {
				trace(name + ba*);
				ba*.name = i;
				
				imageLoader = new Loader();
				imageLoader.load(new URLRequest(menuImageArrayURL.shift()));
				imageLoader.x = 0;
				imageLoader.y = 0;
				
				
				textfield = new TextField();
				textfield.text = menuTitleArray.shift();
				textfield.setTextFormat(txtFmt);
				textfield.selectable = false;
				textfield.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
				textfield.embedFonts = true;
				textfield.wordWrap = true;
				textfield.width = 182;
				textHolder = new Sprite();
				textHolder.addChild(textfield);
				textHolder.x = 0;
				textHolder.y = 215;
				
				
				imageHolder = new MovieClip();
				imageHolder.addChild(imageLoader);
				imageHolder.x = 0;
				imageHolder.y = 0;
				imageHolder.scaleX = 0.359551;
				imageHolder.scaleY = 0.359551;
				
								
				ba*.x = 0 + i * 250;
				ba*.y = 0;
				ba*.addChild(textHolder);
				ba*.addChild(imageHolder);
				ba*.buttonMode=true;				
			}
			
			addButtonsToHolder();

		}

//there is code here i took out to make it shorter for this post.

		public function onButtonClick(e:Event):void {
			
			var namesArray:Array = ["b1","b2","b3","b4","b5"];
			var buttonWanted:String = namesArray[Number(e.currentTarget.name)];
			switch (buttonWanted) {
				case "b1" :
					trace("TO BEVERAGES");
					TweenMax.to(b1, 1, {x:340, y:-139,  scaleX:2.78, scaleY:2.78, ease:Quad.easeInOut});
					TweenMax.to(textHolder, 1, {alpha: 0, ease:Quad.easeInOut});
					loadBeverages();
					break;

//... and more code with is not pertinent

Do you know what i got wrong here?

Tks for any assistance