# Basic Tweening help please! **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [April 13, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147 "2003-04-13T21:25:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alucard\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7993a0/32.png) [@Alucard\_X](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alucard_X)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/1 "2003-04-13T21:25:33Z")
Hi, how do you make a line draw across the movie? I am trying to have the effect of the menu “drawing” itself, ie, the outlines, and then filling in [uber-cool effect methinks] I have been wondering how to have the line drawing across the screen? Forgive the stupid question 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/2 "2003-04-13T21:32:07Z")
it is not a stupid questions you can do this effect by creating the lines you want to draw “themselfs” on the stage and converting them to movies but place their registeration point on the point where you want the line to get wider i mean if you want a line to be drawn from a point to the right place the point on the left. then depending on the loading frequecny of your movie clip increase the width of that movie clip. you can change the registeration point from the convert to symbol menu (forgive the stuoid hint 😉 ). hopr this helps ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/3 "2003-04-13T21:36:08Z")
nice logo by the way are you a manga artist ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/4 "2003-04-13T22:26:10Z")
Thanks dude…Guig0 created my logo 😛 Okay this is what i am doing: in keyframe 1, i am drawing a straight line OFF the movie space, converting to MC and registration point middle left. in keyframe 30 i am continuing the line across the movie [so the tween will hopefully achieve the effect of drawing the line across the movie]. also i convert to MC and put registration point to middle right. However it dont work :sleep: and moves a small portion of the line across! What am i doing wrong!? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/5 "2003-04-13T22:38:06Z")
well i didn’t get exactly what you mean may you provide the code. but anyway i think this will solve your problem check the following file ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/6 "2003-04-13T22:58:21Z")
Dude thanks! I have no clue how you did that…obviously its entirely AS. Is there another way via tweening? Because i am able to play with that a lot more than i will with AS! I will show you what i mean. I have attached fla with some explanation of a line being drawn across from left to right. thanks friend ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/7 "2003-04-13T22:59:54Z")
By the way i see you are from lebanon, i must say lebanese cuisine is delicious 🙂 Batata Harara, houmos, fatoush and of course baclava 🙂 Don’t forget apple sheesha! Off topic i know, but a must mention :d ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/8 "2003-04-13T23:09:48Z")
i am having an apple shisha right now 🙂 where are you from back to business i don’t know if this apply to this case but the only idea i get right now for drawing the line using tweening is to apply a mask over an already drawn line and move the mask as you wish the line to appear check the file ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/9 "2003-04-13T23:32:14Z")
hey where did you disappear i don’t hope that you didn’t like the mask thing ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/10 "2003-04-13T23:34:54Z")
I am from London, and here we have a road full of lebanese restaurants. I love it! 🙂 Well,adham, that does the trick! How did you do that? Just add a mask layer and draw a rectangle, and then move from left to right? Is that what you did? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/11 "2003-04-13T23:36:56Z")
ya as simple as that the mask layer only displays what comes under its contents enjoy the meal ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/12 "2003-04-13T23:37:08Z")
I am very new to flash, and am learning new things everyday. I am just wondering how to improve my starting point: [http://www.hinduvidya.com/om2.htm](http://www.hinduvidya.com/om2.htm) I was thinking maybe “draw” the lines in for the borders which slide into the movie. That would look great! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/13 "2003-04-13T23:43:45Z")
very nice graphics i wish i can do such layout but the thing is that i am toooooooooooooooooooooooooo slugish in design nice work it will be nice to place the menu to pop form the top right corner somewhere near the two bars their ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-tweening-help-please/18147/14 "2003-04-14T03:32:21Z")
> \*Originally posted by Alucard\_X \* > \*\*I am very new to flash, and am learning new things everyday. I am just wondering how to improve my starting point: [http://www.hinduvidya.com/om2.htm](http://www.hinduvidya.com/om2.htm) I was thinking maybe “draw” the lines in for the borders which slide into the movie. That would look great! \*\* I suggest you center your flash in the web site and match the color of the background so it looks like your flash blends in.