# \[Flash 8\] Line cursor trailer... noob needing help :)

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 30, 2008, 9:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-line-cursor-trailer-noob-needing-help/261726 "2008-05-30T09:51:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![emmielou101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2acd7d/32.png) [@emmielou101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/emmielou101)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 9:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-line-cursor-trailer-noob-needing-help/261726/1 "2008-05-30T09:51:01Z")

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Hey everyone, this is my first post in this forum. I’m a bit of a flash beginner and hopefully with some help will one day be able to help out people like me!

I have a cursor follower which is a little animated bee. And what I am trying to do is give it a little dotted line trail - - - - - - - like this. Which follows it, and then fades out after a while. Ive found numerous line trailers which are ALMOST perfect, but I don’t know very much actionscript, especially when you start putting x and y variables and stuff in there.

The ones that I have all scale up the line mc when you move the cursor faster. So instead of having a nice even trail, you get big ones and small ones all over the place. I’m really not sure if this is even avoidable, seeing as every single one I have downloaded does this.

I’m not even sure how to post a link to my file so that you can download it to have a look. But I can post it up here if someone tells me how!

Any help will be much appreciated!

Thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![randomagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@randomagain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/randomagain)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-line-cursor-trailer-noob-needing-help/261726/2 "2008-05-30T10:14:15Z")

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its sounds counter productive, the line would be distracting for the userinterface

I can’t really help noob noobs as if I say API you say what?

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**Author:** ![emmielou101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2acd7d/32.png) [@emmielou101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/emmielou101)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-line-cursor-trailer-noob-needing-help/261726/3 "2008-05-31T10:48:32Z")

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well seeing as the bee is the main part of the flash, its not counterproductive at all. I really just need to know if there is a bit of code that you can change that says ‘don’t scale the mc’ when it is replicated

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**Author:** ![zuperxtreme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zuperxtreme](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zuperxtreme)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-line-cursor-trailer-noob-needing-help/261726/4 "2008-05-31T17:11:54Z")

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What I would do is get your mouse coordinates(if the mouse is moving), store them as a way point, attach the line MC(to the way point), subtract alpha from it until it’s invisible, then delete it and keep doing so every, I don’t know, 5 milliseconds? You’d have to play around with that to get what you’re looking for.

Cheers. 🙂