# Animating action scripting

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-action-scripting/132032
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**Created:** [December 22, 2004, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-action-scripting/132032 "2004-12-22T10:53:56Z")
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### Author: ![darkstyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@darkstyle](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/darkstyle)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2004, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-action-scripting/132032/1 "2004-12-22T10:53:56Z")

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hi there,  
i wanted to movie a movie clip to a certain position so i used  
this.\_x++ but i dont know how to make it stop to a certain position.

2nd question  
i want to make the object get wider from left side to right side how do i do? somethings to do with \_xscale++??

3rd question  
how do can control the speed of motion using action script.

please help!