Get object by its `id` in an AIR windowedApplication

There may be a better way of doing this...so please suggest if there is.

I've got some javascript that calls an AIR function. This AIR functions creates a new HTML element and adds it to the "Stage" like so:

// guid is the ID given to the new window (HTML element) by javascript
private function createNewWindow(guid:String):void {
    var frame:HTML = new HTML();
    frame.id = guid;

    addElement(frame);
}

Now I've also got a function that sets the location of the frame based on its id...this is where I'm struggling.

// set 开发者_Go百科the location of the window referenced by it's id (guid)
private function setLocation(guid:String, location:String):void {
    // psuedocode. Obviously it won't work.
    stage.getById(guid).location = location;
}

So, how do I "get" my HTML element based on its ID?

Short answer, you don't. This isn't javascript, this is a OO language and as such, you need to change your thought process. What are you trying to do? Create several html windows within an air application? If you want to have an id based approach, you're going to need to store the id and the pointer to the component in an data structure (like a dictionary).

private var _components:Dictionary = new Dictionary();
this._components['someId'] = someComponent;

And from there you can add a function that just saves/returns the components. I'm not entirely sure what's your approach and what you're trying to accomplish, but my gut tells me you're not doing something right.