# Rotating Box Outline **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [September 18, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotating-box-outline/5646 "2002-09-18T15:57:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JustSara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@JustSara](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JustSara)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotating-box-outline/5646/1 "2002-09-18T15:57:07Z")
Um… I should know how to do this but I think that part of my brain went on vacation and forgot to tell me. I have a dashed outline around a box. I want the dashed outline to rotate around the box. I tried making each side a symbol and motion tweening but that doesn’t really work. I tried to rotate it 360 degrees but since it’s a square that really didn’t work. Any help will be very, very appreciated. Sara ---
**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:** [September 18, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotating-box-outline/5646/2 "2002-09-18T16:33:10Z")
This is the best I could come up with - you might have to adjust the mask a little ---
**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:** [September 18, 2002, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotating-box-outline/5646/3 "2002-09-18T16:43:40Z")
That is exactly what I am looking for! I :::🙇‍♂️::: to your greatness! I can see you made movie clips for the animation part and then used a masking layer but… when you have some time… could you tell me how you did the movie clip part? When I take the mask away the movie clips reverse directions so I don’t know how you got them to go the right way. It also looks like you combined 2 movie clips together to get a right angle… Sara ---
**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:** [September 18, 2002, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotating-box-outline/5646/4 "2002-09-18T16:48:44Z")
If you think I’m great you should bow to the One who made me great! 🙂 I’ll gladly explain it to you. I’ll put the fla on my site (address is in my footer) and the explanation when I get a moment.