# Shape tween problem

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/shape-tween-problem/229879
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [June 20, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/shape-tween-problem/229879 "2007-06-20T22:36:39Z")
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### Author: ![warpdesign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/74df32/32.png) [@warpdesign](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/warpdesign)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/shape-tween-problem/229879/1 "2007-06-20T22:36:39Z")

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Hi,  
I’m having a problem and need some help. I have a movie clip that has a shape tween in it, and I have other things that I want to happen via actionscript as the width of the movie clip changes, the problem is that the property movieclip.\_width isn’t updated during the shape tween, so for example if my movie clip is 100 pixels and it’s tweening to 200 pixels over 2 seconds the movieclip.\_width returns 100 for 2 seconds and then it returns 200 instead of everything in between. Is there a solution for this? I would use a motion tween but I’m animating a gradient and also there are rounded corners on my movie clip that get screwed up when I do it that way…