# Animated curve drawing between any points dynamically

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-curve-drawing-between-any-points-dynamically/201171>\
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**Created:** [September 19, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-curve-drawing-between-any-points-dynamically/201171 "2006-09-19T02:38:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![dalgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/54ee81/32.png) [@dalgin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dalgin)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-curve-drawing-between-any-points-dynamically/201171/1 "2006-09-19T02:38:33Z")

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First of all, I like to say that I am a newbie to flash and you guys rock!!!

Here is my question:

I have a world map on which I display some data. I read long and lat coordinates for two countries from an XML file which is updated with different coordinates everytime. I then map the coordinates to X-Y axis using some projection method.  
So, I have x-y coordinates for two countries. I wanna draw a curved line between those countries but curveTo method draws the curve in one shot. I want to animate the curve drawing part so it looks like it is being drawn real time.

any help would be appreciated. (this is driving me crazy. I tried drawing part of a circle, but for countries that are far apart from each other, curve gets too high).

Thanks a lot.