Determine the relationship between current and new X

[Arcane001100]

I am having a bugger of a time trying to understand how to set a variables value to a sprite's current X position prior to it's tween.

 

To clarify:

 

*******************************************

btn0     btn1     btn2     btn3     btn4

           -----

*******************************************

 

in the example above, the '-----' marker signifies the current button.

 

if I click on 'btn3' the marker will tween on over to underneath 'btn3'. great. yay.

 

I would like to be able to have a variable:int set to the current button's X value-- from which I could determine if the tween.to value is < or > and animate accordingly (I will be animating the '-----' based on the < or > relationship).

 

I hope this makes sense to you, it does to me.... but my wife once told me I have issues expressing myself.

[Choochoo]

like a onStart?

 

var b:button = ---------;

var capturedX:Int;

 

TweenLite.to(b,2,{onStart:captureX});

 

function captureX():void

{

capturedX = b.x;

}

 

if thats wrong, then I'm lost on the question

[Arcane001100]

choochoo,

 

Your code looks promising. I will go over this tonight but won't be able to test it until tomorrow afternoon... meetings in the AM.

 

Thank you; I will post my findings.

 

** onStart never occurred to me.

[Arcane001100]

Thanks again for you help...

 

I have decided to put this issue on the back burner until the rest of the project is finished.... it's a time management thing now.

 

I will post my findings once I complete it.

 

Thanks again.