How to correctly select mc on stage for animation

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February 15, 2020
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As a refresher test (it's years since I last used Animate), I am trying to animate an Mc with GSAP (following the video at https://youtu.be/Dq1_MI2gHuM).

If I follow the video instructions and go:

TweenMax.to(this.sym1, 1, {
x: 10,
delay: 0.5
});

nothing happens.

However, if I go

var root = this;

and then

TweenMax.to(root.sym1, 1, {
x: 10,
delay: 0.5
});

it animates as it should.

Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks

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Correct answer julianc31943986

Answered my own question - there was a mistake in my js, a difference between my test file and the GSAP instruction video, that I'd overlooked. I had put the tween inside a function - I took it outside the function and it worked fine.

J

julianc31943986AuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Answered my own question - there was a mistake in my js, a difference between my test file and the GSAP instruction video, that I'd overlooked. I had put the tween inside a function - I took it outside the function and it worked fine.

C

ClayUUID

Legend

Canvas documents already have a perfectly good tween library built in, TweenJS. Why are you bloating your project with an unnecessary third-party tween library?

J

julianc31943986Author

Inspiring

Hi ...just that I am familar with GSAP from using it elsewhere, it doesn't seem to impact the speed of the animation so I didn't see any harm in using it, and I didn't want to go through any extra learning curves if I already knew a tool that worked well. Sure I can look into tweenjs as you suggest but do you mean that the problem I had is related to GSAP and wouldn't occur if I used tweenjs?

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