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Hi,

 

It looks like you're asking for the parent's timeline labels and time, not the nested one, therefore the array is empty.

 

Change your code to this:

var tl1 = new TimelineMax();
var tl2 = new TimelineMax();

tl2.addLabel("tl2");
tl1.append(tl2);

console.log(tl2.getLabelTime("tl2"));
console.log(tl2.getLabelsArray());

I also took the liberty to update your fiddle so you can see it working:

http://jsfiddle.net/fa7Wd/13/

 

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Rodrigo.

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Thanks for the reply.  I know I can do that, but it's not what I want.  If I call these methods on the nested timeline directly, it returns the time relative to the nested timeline.  I need the time relative to the parent timeline.  Granted, in my simple example, they would be the same time since there are no other offsets.  I've updated the original fiddle to add delays to the parent and nested timeline.  What I would like is to get the the value of 10 back (where the label falls in the overall timeline), but all I am able to retrieve is the value of 5 by querying the nested timeline.

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Each tween or timeline has a startTime()

http://api.greensock.com/js/com/greensock/core/Animation.html#startTime()

 

So if you are only nesting your timeline with the labels 1 level deep, you can just add the timeline's startTime() to the label's time()

 

 

 

 

var tl1 = new TimelineMax();
var tl2 = new TimelineMax();


tl2.append(new TimelineMax({delay: 5}));
tl2.append("tl2");
tl1.append(new TimelineMax({delay: 5}));
tl1.append(tl2);


console.log(tl1.getLabelTime("tl2"));
console.log(tl1.getLabelsArray());
console.log(tl2.getLabelTime("tl2") + tl2.startTime()); //output 10
 

Check out this thread here: http://forums.greensock.com/topic/7046-nested-relative-tween-time-position/#entry26178

 

There is some handy info about finding any tween's startTime() relative to any ancestor. I imagine you could use the same technique to recursively figure out any timeline's labelTime relative to any ancestor timeline.

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