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Greetings one and all. Hopefully Christmas brought your family together. Thank you in advance. I have a need to update a dynamic text box when a new label is reached. The animation is a sequence of lines drawn, points reached and then the point animated, and an image faded. This all works quite nicely - Jack, your packages are _amazing_!! What I would like to do is as best I can explain: as each label is reached, a dynamic text box is updated with new text. On each new label created, would an "onStart" be apropos? And ... how would I populate the box? I've built dynamic text boxes that are stacked upon each other and when a new label reached, the old text box is alpha-faded out & the new is alpha-faded in. That seems wasteful and is certainly inelegant. My SWF is large, at 51 labels and with unrelated animation and content, but I've trimmed it down to 4 labels in the code below. Any help will be appreciated. import com.greensock.*; import com.greensock.plugins.*; import com.greensock.easing.*; import com.greensock.loading.*; import com.greensock.events.LoaderEvent; mc_ball.x = P1.x; mc_ball.y = P1.y; mc_map_uk.alpha = 0; var line:Shape = new Shape(); addChild(line); // timing variables ///////////////////////////////////////// var timer_tweek:Number = .8; var staticTimer_var:Number = 4; var image_fade_var:Number = .01; var point_bounce_var:Number = 3; ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// drawRoute(); function drawRoute () { var tl_drawRoute:TimelineMax = new TimelineMax(); ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // add each line tween and label the insert point // draw using same time for each tween: tl_drawRoute.to(mc_ball, staticTimer_var, {x:P2.x, y:P2.y, ease:Linear.easeNone, onUpdate:drawLine}, "point_1"); tl_drawRoute.to(mc_ball, staticTimer_var, {x:P3.x, y:P3.y, ease:Linear.easeNone, onUpdate:drawLine}, "point_2"); tl_drawRoute.to(mc_ball, staticTimer_var, {x:P4.x, y:P4.y, ease:Linear.easeNone, onUpdate:drawLine}, "point_3"); tl_drawRoute.to(mc_ball, staticTimer_var, {x:P5.x, y:P5.y, ease:Linear.easeNone, onUpdate:drawLine}, "point_4"); ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// line.graphics.clear(); line.graphics.lineStyle(3, 0xFF0000); line.graphics.moveTo(mc_ball.x, mc_ball.y); ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // insert dot tweens at the appropriate label // each tween has the same duration and will start when it's respective line tween starts tl_drawRoute.insert( TweenMax.fromTo(P1, point_bounce_var, {scaleX:0, scaleY:0}, {scaleX:1, scaleY:1, ease:Elastic.easeOut}), "point_1"); tl_drawRoute.insert( TweenMax.fromTo(P2, point_bounce_var, {scaleX:0, scaleY:0}, {scaleX:1, scaleY:1, ease:Elastic.easeOut}), "point_2"); tl_drawRoute.insert( TweenMax.fromTo(P3, point_bounce_var, {scaleX:0, scaleY:0}, {scaleX:1, scaleY:1, ease:Elastic.easeOut}), "point_3"); tl_drawRoute.insert( TweenMax.fromTo(P4, point_bounce_var, {scaleX:0, scaleY:0}, {scaleX:1, scaleY:1, ease:Elastic.easeOut}), "point_4"); ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // image fades called at apporpriate label tl_drawRoute.insert( TweenMax.fromTo(I1, image_fade_var, {alpha:0}, {alpha:1, ease:Elastic.easeOut}), "point_1"); tl_drawRoute.insert( TweenMax.fromTo(I2, image_fade_var, {alpha:0}, {alpha:1, ease:Elastic.easeOut}), "point_2"); tl_drawRoute.insert( TweenMax.fromTo(I3, image_fade_var, {alpha:0}, {alpha:1, ease:Elastic.easeOut}), "point_3"); tl_drawRoute.insert( TweenMax.fromTo(I4, image_fade_var, {alpha:0}, {alpha:1, ease:Elastic.easeOut}), "point_4"); } function drawLine() { // trace("drawLine called"); } function testComplete () { // trace("test complete"); } Best, Steve