# Tween activating too soon

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tween-activating-too-soon/243177>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 3, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tween-activating-too-soon/243177 "2007-11-03T22:13:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![varPBR\_Tasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ccd318/32.png) [@varPBR\_Tasty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/varPBR_Tasty)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tween-activating-too-soon/243177/1 "2007-11-03T22:13:46Z")

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Hi all,

So, excuse my code…I haven’t gotten to the level yet where I can write super efficiently. My problem, which I had working this morning, but not now, is that I have a Tween set up on a loader, and immediately upon defining the Tween, I call out a .stop(); so the Tween doesn’t start immediately. The problem is that the loader seems to be sitting at the endpoint of the Tween when the movie starts, instead of the x and y positions I have defined. When I click the next button, the loader pops back to where it should be, tweens away, and then my next image tweens back…after that everything works like it should. Help?

```auto
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.Event;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;

var loader:Loader = new Loader;
loader.x = loader.y = 30;

var request1:URLRequest = new URLRequest("img.jpg");
var request2:URLRequest = new URLRequest("img2.jpg");

loader.load(request1);

var masker:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
masker.graphics.beginFill(0x000000);
masker.graphics.drawRect(30,30,400,300);
masker.graphics.endFill();
addChild(masker);

loader.mask = masker;

var outTween:Tween = new Tween(loader, "x", Strong.easeIn, 30, -530, .5, true);
outTween.stop();
outTween.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, nextImage);

var inTween:Tween = new Tween(loader, "x", Strong.easeOut, -530, 30,1.5,true);
inTween.stop();
inTween.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, finishLoad);

var nextImageB:nextB = new nextB();
nextImageB.x = 500;
nextImageB.y = 350;
nextImageB.buttonMode = true;
nextImageB.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, unloadImage);
addChild(nextImageB);

function unloadImage(e:Event):void{
    outTween.start();
}

function nextImage(e:Event):void{
    loader.load(request2);
    inTween.start();
    removeChild(nextImageB);
}

function finishLoad(e:Event):void{
    addChild(nextImageB);
}

addChild(loader);
inTween.start();

```

Thanks,  
varPBR:Tasty