# Drawing lines / boxes with actionScript

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drawing-lines-boxes-with-actionscript/156709>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 27, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drawing-lines-boxes-with-actionscript/156709 "2005-07-27T15:07:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![jreider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@jreider](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jreider)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drawing-lines-boxes-with-actionscript/156709/1 "2005-07-27T15:07:12Z")

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I’ve been away from Flash for about 2 years and I’m really getting the itch to start writing with it again. I’m trying to get away from frame by frame animation, and I was wondering if anyone had any code snippets for drawing simple items using strictly actionscript? For example, I have some movie clips I’ve created in the past where a box gets drawn line by line using shape tweens. The line starts as a tiny speck, then grows gradually into a full line, and repeats as many times as needed to make a ‘box’. I just need pushed in the right direction to emulate this using actionscript, if possible.

thanks! 🙂

Jon