making a Movie Clip crawl back and forth?

[Pablosworking]

I am trying to get a Movie Clip to crawl back and forth, stopping at 12 specific points controlled by 12 separate buttons.

In other words when you click on button 3 the Movie Clip slides to position 3 (X position or frame number), then click button 9 it slides to position 9, click on button 1 it slides back to position 1 etc.

I can make jump to the positions and stop but I can’t make it crawl (slide) to the next x position or to go back to a previous x position.

I am very new to flash and I thank you for any help.

Found this in a tutorial but I don’t know how to modify it to do what I want.

stop();

button1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, Shoot_1)

function Shoot_1(event:MouseEvent):void

{

                gotoAndPlay(1)

}

Using flash cs5, ActionScript 3 on a PC. This is for a presentation shown in a conference room.

Thanks again,

Pablo

[kglad]

// use a decent tweening engine like TweenLite:

import gs.TweenLite;

var positionA:Array=[[x1,y1],[x2,y2],...,[x12,y12]];

for(var i:int=0;i<positionA.length;i++){

this["button"+(i+1)].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,clickF);

}

function clickF(e:MouseEvent):void{

var index:int = int(e.currentTarget.name.split("button")[1]);

TweenLite.to(yourmovieclip,.5,{x:positionA[index][0],y:positionA[index][1]});

}

[Pablosworking]

Thanks I'm so new to flash I really am lost.

Never even heard of TweenLite.

[kglad]

get it here:  http://www.greensock.com/tweenlite/

open TweenLite.as to see how to use it though you can just copy and paste the code i suggested for this project.

[Pablosworking]

kglad, Thanks again.

I can't make it work because I'm such a noob I don't know exactly where to enter my instance names for my 12 buttons and my 1 sliding movie clip.

I have been experimenting but to no avail. Actually I have spent 4 days searching for a tutorial explaining this and reading everything I could find before I finally stopped the truck and asked for directions.

I'm not sure I have it set up correctly to do this in the first place.

What I have is 100 frames, 12 button instances named button1_btn, button2_btn, etc. on 12 different layers. 1Movie Clip instance named big_tl, size W:2879.95 x H:259.20 Starting position is off stage at X552 Y47.

It crawls from X552 Y:47 to X -2430 Y47 using classic tween in 100 frames.

The movement I’m trying to achieve is:

button1 slides from wherever it is currently to X185 Y47 or frame 13,

button2 X39 Y47 or frame 18 etc.

So my questions are too many but, Am I set up correctly for this code? And could you please instruct me further as to how I fill out the code?

Thank you again for your time and patience.

[kglad · Accepted solution]

no, you're not setup correctly for that code.

that code uses no timeline tweening.  it uses tweenlite to tween you object and includes all that's needed to do what you want.

[Pablosworking]

I finally got it to work. Thanks kglad!

[kglad]

you're welcome.