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(beginner) tween.play() clarification

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Hi!  I am jumping into GSAP and loving it!  I hope you won't mind this super simple beginner question...

 

I am only a couple days in and most things are making sense, but I must have the concept wrong in my example pen.  My expectation was that my tween "position 1" would animate to my x location. Then after animating "position 2" it would go to that position.  All that works as expected.  My assumption was that it I hit "position 1" after that, my object would tween to the same position as the first tap of that button.  It just jumps to that position instead of animating. 

 

I am sure there is something super simple I am missing (maybe shouldn't be using .play() or other?) and would appreciate a quick explanation from someone.  I should also state that I do not want to use Timeline sequencing as I am looking for interactive tween solutions.  Thank you!

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Hi @haukeg,

 

Please look in the docs:

 

//begins playing from wherever the playhead currently is:
myAnimation.play();
//begins playing from exactly 2-seconds into the animation:
myAnimation.play(2);

// for your case - begins playing from start:
tween1.play(0);

// or use:
tween1.restart();

 

Happy tweening ...

Mikel

 

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Thank you @mikel for your response!  I have reviewed the documentation quite a bit, and unfortunately .play(0) and .restart() are not the outcome I am looking for.  If I use of those methods, the animation goes back to x: 0 before animating to position 1.  What I am aiming for is to get the box to animate from position 2 (x:350) to position 1 (x: 750) on my second tap of the position 1 button.  I guess I should say I want to know if it is possible to create tweens that go from wherever the object is to a specific destination when the tween is run?

 

Sorry if I did not make that clear in my original post.  Thanks again.

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