Short syntax for accessing nested display objects? (AS3)

Hiya everyone, good to see the list back up and running.

  I'm trying to access a sprite that is inside of 2 other sprites and  
I have 2 questions about this:

1) It seems that the syntax for targeting this sprite once it is  
created is quite long winded (2 temporary vars have to be created):

var cont:Sprite = new Sprite();
this.addChild(cont);
var cont1:Sprite = new Sprite();
cont.addChild(cont1);
var child1:Sprite = new H1();

var target =cont.getChildByName("cont1");
var targ2 = target.getChildByName("child1");	

targ2._visible = false;




2) Also, I can't data type my target var as a Sprite otherwise I get  
an error (unless I cast  the type as well).

If anyone knows of a better of doing this I would be really  
interested to hear it :)
Cheers,
Ali



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