# Animating the Drawing of Shapes with Actionscripting

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-the-drawing-of-shapes-with-actionscripting/92982>\
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**Created:** [October 23, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-the-drawing-of-shapes-with-actionscripting/92982 "2003-10-23T22:43:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-the-drawing-of-shapes-with-actionscripting/92982/1 "2003-10-23T22:43:35Z")

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Hello.

If I want to draw the stroke of a square just using actionscripting, I can (i.e moveto()). That will just show the stroke of a square as soon as I play the .SWF file.

Let’s say I want to animate the drawing of the stroke of a square from one point to the next. This way when I play the .SWF file, it will show the square being made. How would I go about doing so?

Thanks.