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Those links were a great help, thanks. The arrays are a great thing. Regarding the code, I'll do you one better. Finally figured out how I can just change the index, so that at the end I'm still left with just 10 Rurs, and not 20. Check it out if you're interested. -Jon import com.greensock.*; import com.greensock.easing.*; var rurMax:Number = 10; var stackHeight:Number = 100; var spacing: Number = stackHeight / (rurMax - 1); var speed:Number = 1; var stack1X:Number = 100; var stack1Y:Number = 200; var stack2X:Number = stage.stageWidth - 100; var stack2Y:Number = 300; // the master timeline var tl:TimelineMax=new TimelineMax(); // creates a stack of Rurs and flies them individually to new stack location function flyingRurs() { for (var i:int = 0; i { // create a Rur (attach symbol in library with Class Rur) and position on stage var rur:Rur=new Rur(); rur.x = stack1X; rur.y = stack1Y + i * spacing; addChildAt(rur, 0); var nestedTl:TimelineMax = new TimelineMax(); nestedTl.insert(TweenMax.to(rur, speed, {x:stack2X, y:stack2Y - i*spacing, ease:Circ.easeInOut})); nestedTl.addCallback(moveUpFront, speed/2, [rur]); // brings the Rur up front so it stacks correctly tl.append(nestedTl, -speed*.75); } } function moveUpFront( clip:DisplayObject ):void { clip.parent.setChildIndex(clip, clip.parent.numChildren-1); } flyingRurs();

That's great, it works! But after looking through it, I'm still not sure how it works. The setDepth function uses addChild. Does that mean there's twice as many children on the screen at the end of the movie? Or does that replace each rur in question..? I think my problem is a lack of understanding how multiple instances get referenced in such a loop. Are they all called rur? Or rur1, rur2, etc? I've spent hours scouring the web and haven't found anything that really explains it well. Maybe you could point me in the right direction? thanks, Jon

Thanks! Btw, Carl, I've been learning a ton from your tuts. I think I may have even gotten the code from you that I based this on, but I've been through so many tuts, I can't remember any more! You're a huge help to all of us! -Jon

Hey guys, I was doing pretty well until I ran into an indexing problem. I'll briefly describe what I'm trying to do: Got a stack of 10 Rurs (an imaginary currency). The topmost flies from the stack and lands in another location. Then the second follows suite until all ten are in a stack in a new location. Everything's great except that that first Rur lies visually on top of all the others (should be on the way bottom) and vice versa for the last one. All I want to do it drop the index by one in mid-flight but I'm having difficulties figuring out how. I'm also confused in general about how I'm supposed to reference the various instances in the first place... I'd be really grateful if someone could help me out! Code's below. -Jon import com.greensock.*; import com.greensock.easing.*; var rurMax:Number = 10; var stackHeight:Number = 100; var spacing: Number = stackHeight / (rurMax - 1); var stack1X: Number = 100; var stack1Y: Number = 200; var stack2X: Number = stage.stageWidth - 100; var stack2Y: Number = 300; // the master timeline var tl:TimelineMax=new TimelineMax(); // generate random num between a min and max value function randomRange(min:Number, max:Number):Number { return min + (Math.random() * (max - min)); } function createRur(count:Number) { // create a Rur (attach symbol in library with Class Rur) and position on stage var rur:Rur=new Rur(); rur.x = stack1X; rur.y = stack1Y + count * spacing; addChildAt(rur,0); trace(rur.name); var nestedTl:TimelineMax = new TimelineMax(); nestedTl.insert(TweenMax.to(rur, 1, {x:stack2X, y:stack2Y - count * spacing, ease:Circ.easeInOut})); tl.append(nestedTl, -.5); } // loop the createRur function a bunch of times function init() { for (var count:Number = 0; count createRur(count); } } init();