# How to animate a line

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-animate-a-line/178957>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 15, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-animate-a-line/178957 "2006-02-15T18:02:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Qr4\_us](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Qr4\_us](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Qr4_us)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-animate-a-line/178957/1 "2006-02-15T18:02:05Z")

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My problem is to animate a line, a line starting from a point and progressively increasing in length over time. I cannot achieve this using the draw methods in flash. Because when using these methods to draw the line the results occur in a “Flash”.

What I want is the line to grow from a point A to a point B slowly in a smooth fashion.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for all the help

Cure :skull:

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**Author:** ![zooey74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a9a28c/32.png) [@zooey74](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zooey74)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-animate-a-line/178957/2 "2006-03-23T15:40:16Z")

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This is really cool. How would you convert it to make it where it connects to a movie clip when the movie clip is clicked?