Trouble with numbers as instances

[rhys_the_Cool]

For a school assignment i planned to recreat a mac system for a PSP. In doing that i have created the boot screen and login. I also wanted a dock and found one on the internet with source coding :O

http://jrgraphix.net/research/flash_dock.php

I Made an animaition for one of the icons (bouncing) and want it so when i click the icon, it bounces, HOWEVER, when I say _root.dock.1.Play(); it says Syntax error. Which i guess is because of the number. This, i think, is introduced within CS3 which is very annoying. How can I either edit the source code to load a,b,c,d instead of 1,2,3,4? This is the source code of the dock

onClipEvent(load){
	_quality = "BEST";
	var margin = 2;			// tray margin
	var min = 32;			// icon size at its smallest
	var max = 50;			// icon size at its largest
	var span = 2.5 * min;		// radius of influence
	var spacing = min + 1;	// icon spacing
	var n = 7;				// number of icons
	var speed = 0.15;

	var _MC = Math.cos;
	var _MS = Math.sin;
	var _s = max - min;
	var state = 0;
	var piSpan = Math.PI / span;
	var center = new Array();
	for(i = 1; i <= n; i++){
		this[+i]._y = - margin;
		center[i] = (2 * i - n - 1) * spacing / 2;
	}
	tray._height = min + 2 * margin;
	this._alpha = 0;
}

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
	if(this._alpha < 100) this._alpha += 10;
	if (state == 0 || state == 1) temp = false; else temp = true;
	if(inside) state = Math.min(1, state + 0.2); else state = Math.max(0, state - 0.2);
	if(x != _xmouse || y != _ymouse || temp) {

		var x = _xmouse;
		var y = _ymouse;
		var x1 = tray._x;
		var x2 = x1 + tray._width;

		if(!temp){
			if( x < x1 || x > x2 || Math.abs(y) > altitude ) inside = false; else inside = true;
		}

		var altitude = min + 2 * margin + _s * state;

		for(i = 1; i <= n; i++){
			lo = center[i] - state * span;
			hi = center[i] + state * span;

			if(x <= lo) iX = hi;	// mouse on the left, icon to the right
			if(x >= hi) iX = lo;	// mouse on the right, icon to the left

			if(x > lo && x < hi) {		// icon is influenced by mouse
				fi = piSpan * (hi - x);					 		// 0..2pi
				cfi = _MC(fi / 2);								// 1..-1
				sfi = _MS(fi) / 20;								// horizontal compensation
				iX = center[i] - state * span * (cfi + sfi);	// centrum ± span
				iSize = _s * (1 - cfi * cfi);		 			// icon resize
			} 
			else iSize = 0;
			_scale = 100 * (min + state * iSize)/128;
			this[+i]._xscale = this[+i]._yscale = _scale;
			this[+i]._x = iX;
		}
		tray._width = this[n]._x - this[1]._x + this[1]._width/2 + this[n]._width/2 + 2 * margin;
		tray._x = this[1]._x - this[1]._width/2 - margin;
	}
}

[silentweed]

no it isnt new ..instance names cannot start with a number .. change your instance names

[rhys_the_Cool]

Well it got rid of one Syntax error and made the text blue which is a good thing, still error though

[silentweed]

can you be more specific? what is the error? can you highlight the relevant part of the code .. so we know which portion you are talking about.. i dont see any _root.dock.1.Play(); in the above code P.S it should be .play() anyway not .Play()

[rhys_the_Cool]

the above code is the source code for the dock, I am wanting to replace the 1,2,3,4 to a,b,c,d unless there is a way to play numbers as instances. So it goes, ROOT,DOCK,3 (instance name),

here is the code for number 3 in Root/Dock/Frame (actions layer with single frame one it)

onRelease function = {
dock.3.play()
}