Simple sprite movement?

I just want to do some basic things with my menus and a few in-game sprites. A dialog box sliding in from below, or buttons and text sliding in from offscreen for example. By themselves w/o input from the player.

I tried using some dt expressions but that seems needlessly complicated for some simple automatic movement and I couldn't figure out how to stop them from moving either. animating this in seems wasteful too. Any help?

lerp is your friend. It is a system expression, you should experiment with it. There are a couple tutorials for it, too, hit the search box, apparently it works now.

Tis a good day.

Thanks, I'll mess with it but I seriously doubt math will ever be my friend.

Would anyone be able to provide a simple example using this method with what I want to do? Would make learning this a whole lot easier.

For reference:

Explanation of lerp - LINK