Flex 4 - How to loop over children of a container when they are state-dependant

Question

Flex's new States re-parents visual items that are marked with includeIn/excludeFrom. If I have a Group (MainGroup) with 5 children/elements that are state controlled, is there still a way to get a reference to MainGroup's children? mainGroup.numChildren and mainGroup.numElements don't work since the children are re-parented. At best, they show 1.

<s:states>
   <s:State name="view1State" />
   <s:State name="view2State" />
   <s:State name="view3State" />
   <s:State name="view4State" />
</s:states>

<s:Group id="mainGroup">
    <shipping:OrderShipping id="view1"
            includeIn="view1State" />
    <payment:OrderPayment id="view2"
            includeIn="view2State" />
    <verification:OrderVerification id="view3"
            includeIn="view3State" />
    <confirmation:OrderConfirmation id="view4"
            includeIn="view4State" />
</s:Group>

Answer 1

I got the best answer! Well, I will let you decide. Just operate on the states array...

 for each (var viewState:State in mainDocument.states)
{
    var overrides:Array = viewState.overrides;

    for (var i:int = 0; i < overrides.length; i++)
    {
        var addItems:AddItems = overrides[i];
        if (addItems.destination === mainDocument.mainGroup)
            trace((addItems.items as UIComponent).name);
    }

}