Make a Tween always play in reverse?

I'm using the native Tween class and have a several tweens which make a button, when clicked, fly up into the corner of the screen. Then some time later yoyo() that tween to bring the button back to where it started.
The problem is that we have a replay button that replays from certain points on the timeline.
I want that if on the "screen" (not flash screens just our term for the range of frames that correspond to the timeline between those certain replay points) the user clicks replay that the button will always play the tween backward, i.e., flyout from the upper corner back to the "start" point.
Since there is no reverse() method or playInReverse() the only choice seems to be yoyo(). And one would think that fforward() followed by a yoyo() would make it always play backward. But I can't make it seem to work.
So my question is, "Is there a way to ensure that a tween, regardless of how it last player or is still playing, can be made to go to the end and then play backwards?"
Thanks.

I think you're right, Rothrock. What bothers me the most about using yoyo(); is that if you call it before the tween has ended, the new beginning position is the current position. That is the tween has effectively truncated off the ending bit, which it had not yet reached. And also, because it is just switching the beginning and end positions, the easing used is also backwards. If it originally eased in, then in reverse, it should be an ease out, but this is not the case.
If you are using a frame-based tween instead of by seconds, you might be able to make use of the prevFrame() method:
myTween.stop();
onEnterFrame = function(){
     myTween.prevFrame();
     if(myTween.position == 0){
          trace("Reverse complete!");
          delete onEnterFrame;
Of course you could also use a setInterval if you don't want to involve using a MovieClip's onEnterFrame event handler. But anyway, I think this method is nice because you are essentially scrubbing the Tween like a timeline, preserving all of its properties, including the easing.

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Hey all. I'm changing all my files to AS 3.0 because of some
new elements I'd like to use in flash CS4.
Here:
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I have the menu navigation at the bottom with 4 buttons. When the
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DjPhantasy5,
> Ok thanks, I'll see what he also has to say as well.
Actually, NedWebs pretty much nailed it. :) The approach
you've taken
is an interesting one, because it scales all the way back to
Flash Player 5,
which didn't yet support the MovieClip.onEnterFrame event.
Without that
event, you need something like your "controller" symbol -- a
separate
looping timeline -- to perform code that depends on frame
loops.
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to
consolidate your code a bit by putting it all in a single
frame and avoiding
the extra movie clip symbol. That doesn't mean your approach
is wrong, by
any stretch. In fact, it's good to know your options, because
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need to publish to Flash Player 5, you'll probably do best to
use the setup
you've taken.
I'll demonstrate onEnterFrame in just a bit, in case you
want to take a
look at that.
>> there's no _root reference in AS3, but you can use a
>> MovieClip(this.parent) (which replaces what _parent
>> used to do) to locate something outside of the
immediate
>> movieclip.
The term "parent," in this context, is technically a
property of the
MovieClip class, which means all movie clips in AS3 have
access to the
"parent" feature, which points to the timeline that contains
the movie clip
in question. Buttons also feature a "parent" property. In
AS2, this
property acted exactly the same, only it was preceeded by an
underscore.
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existin file.
Instead of this:
// Your existing code ...
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this.gotoAndPlay(2)
if (_root.animation._currentframe<=1) {
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... you could be using this:
// Alternative code ...
if (_parent.animation._currentframe>1) {
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gotoAndPlay(2)
if (_parent.animation._currentframe<=1) {
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... because from this scope -- that is, from this point of
view -- the
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_root does.
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current scope is.
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understands
what scope you're in. From the point of view of this code,
_parent is
understood to refer to the current scope's parent timeline,
just like
gotoAndPlay() is understood to refer to the current scope's
own timeline.
You could precede either of those by "this" or not.
Many people will argue that _root is probably best avoided,
only because
it's a slippery slope. It doesn't always refer to the main
timeline you
think it does, depending on whether or not your SWF is loaded
into another
SWF at runtime. Meanwhile, _parent *always* refers to the
immediately
parent timeline.
So when you look at it that way, this perfectly valid AS2:
if (_parent.animation._currentframe>1) {
... isn't much different at all from its AS3 counterpart:
if (MovieClip(parent).animation.currentFrame>1) {
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reference as a
movie clip here, but if you don't, AS3 doesn't realize that
the scope in
question is a movie clip.
>> You can string them along as...
>> MovieClip(this.parent.parent)
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>> Your _currentframe in the the controller becomes
>> currentFrame. That's about it. The rest of what I
>> saw will fly as is.
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functions, so
you won't be able to attach your code direction to the
button. Instead,
you'll have to put it in a keyframe -- which you can also do
with AS2. It's
a good idea, in any case, because it allows you to put all
your code in one
place, making it easier to find.
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http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/museum-pieces-on-and-onclipevent
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your current
version. The first line (buttonMode) is only necessary
because I got rid of
the button symbol and, instead, associated the event handlers
directly with
your animation clip. (Movie clips handle button-style events,
too, so you
don't need the button.) In AS3, event handling is very
straightforward:
you reference the object (here, animation), invoke its
inherited
addEventListener() method, then pass in two parameters: a)
the event to
listen for, and b) the function to perform when that event
occurs.
You can see that spelled out above. In AS2, there are quite
a few ways
to handle events, including on()/onClipEvent(), so it's
harder to know when
to use what approach. For buttons and movie clips, the
princple works the
same as I just showed, but the syntax is different.
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the
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animation.onRollOver = overHandler;
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controller
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button, because
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see what
functionality any object has by looking up its class. If
you're dealing
with a movie clip, look up the MovieClip class. See the
Properties heading
to find out what characteristics the object has, see Methods
to find out
what the object can do, and see Events to find out what the
object can react
to.)
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AS2,
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MovieClip.onRollOut and
MovieClip.onRollOver. Those events are established for the
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function to the
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simply, it
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function every time
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via the
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simply invokes
MovieClip.prevFrame() on the animation clip.
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animation.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,
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it's
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event handler
functions in AS3. I happened to name it "evt" (for event),
but you can call
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parameter refers to
an instance of the Event class, which has a target property.
The target
property refers to the object that dispatched the event --
happens to be
animation, in this case. So evt.target, in this context,
refers to
animation, which is what I invoke the MovieClip.prevFrame()
method on.
I've uploaded a handful of FLA files to my server. I won't
keep them
there forever ... maybe a couple weeks, as of this post:
http://www.quip.net/RewindTestAS3.fla
http://www.quip.net/RewindTestAS3_new.fla
http://www.quip.net/RewindTestAS2_new.fla
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http://tinyurl.com/2s28a5
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