[flexcoders] External addChild.target = ??

[Jeremy Rottman]

Right now I'm working on a project that currently is creating dynamic states from a function and one of the arguments that is being passed to this state needs to be the filename of the child I want to add to the state. The following is the function I have so far.
private function addStates(wContent:String, wX:Number, wY:Number, wWidth:Number, wHeight:Number):void {    var state:State;    var addChild:AddChild;    var setXProperty:SetProperty;    var setYProperty:SetProperty;
    var setZProperty:SetProperty;    var setHeightProperty:SetProperty;    var setWidthProperty:SetProperty;                    state = new State();    state.name
 ="state"+positionIndex.toString();        // position every window within that state    setXProperty = new SetProperty();    setXProperty.target = windowArray[positionIndex];    setXProperty.name
 = "x";    setYProperty = new SetProperty();    setYProperty.target = windowArray[positionIndex];    setYProperty.name = "y";    setHeightProperty = new SetProperty();    setHeightProperty.target
 = windowArray[positionIndex];    setHeightProperty.name = "height";    setWidthProperty = new SetProperty();    setWidthProperty.target = windowArray[positionIndex];    setWidthProperty.name
 = "width";    // set property values based off arguments    setXProperty.value = wX;    setYProperty.value = wY;    setHeightProperty.value = wHeight;    setWidthProperty.value = wWidth;            
    positionIndex++;    // add children to state    addChild.relativeTo = mainCanvas;    addChild.target = wContent;        // push all of the overrides into the state array    state.overrides.push
(setXProperty);    state.overrides.push(setYProperty);    state.overrides.push(setHeightProperty);    state.overrides.push(setWidthProperty);    state.overrides.push(addChild);        // push the state onto the states array
    states.push(state);    addTransitions(state.name);}Now as you can see wContent is currently a string however that's where it is giving me the error of "1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type String to an unrelated type 
flash.display:DisplayObject." because you can't add a string as a child but I do not know of the correct way to syntax this. The child I want to add will be testChild.mxml which is a canvas with 4 buttons inside of. The child will always be a canvas just the buttons and the actions those buttons do will be different. So basically I need to pass "
testChild.mxml" as a string or whatever through the addStates() method as wContent and then make a child to the state with that. Anyone got any ideas?

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