Tweening Frames, nested children not playing

[seren]

Hi, I have a movieclip which I am trying to tween to a target frame in the timeline. The movieclip has child movieclip's nested on the timeline. When I tween my main timeline will animate, but my children will not. Is this the way TweenMax works, or am I approaching the problem in the wrong way? Help really appreciated

 

Example code :

timeline.append(new TweenMax(animClip, duration, {delay : delay, ease : Linear.easeNone, frame : totalFrames, repeat : loopsRequired, onComplete : handleFinished }));

[Carl]

i'm a little confused. but I'm not so sure the children of timeline that is being frame-tweened will advance.

 

can you post a simplified example?

[GreenSock]

Right - that's just how Flash works. It has nothing to do with TweenMax. MovieClips don't synchronize their timelines. So if you have child_mc inside parent_mc and they both have 20 frames, they'll appear to play together but then if you parent_mc.gotoAndPlay(1) when it hits frame 10, child_mc will keep going onto its frame 11 whereas parent_mc will skip back to frame 1.

 

If you want them to by synchronized, you could use TweenMax to do all the frame tweening (for all nested MovieClips too).