# Trouble with Drawing API
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 18, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782 "2002-12-18T13:31:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@eilsoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eilsoe)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/1 "2002-12-18T13:31:31Z")
Hiya!
Made this code in Mx, attached the file, can anyone please tell me how the hell i make it draw the lines dynamically?
I mean, i know about the API, but this is ticking me off! :-\
Anyone?
(attachment removed, look at posts below)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/2 "2002-12-18T13:44:04Z")
Well, first of all, write an enterFrame. gotoAndPlay loops were used at the time of Flash 4…
pom :+)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/3 "2002-12-18T13:47:46Z")
Done 🙂 now what?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/4 "2002-12-18T14:04:12Z")
You set up a lineStyle, and you draw the lines onEnterFrame.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/5 "2002-12-18T19:27:07Z")
_sigh_
I KNOW how the drawing API works, the problem is that whenever the last line drawn, from point “last” to point “first” is made, it runs a straight line from end to beginning…
Am I even making any sense…?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/6 "2002-12-18T19:47:58Z")
You make no sense at all maybe try you best then maybe ill understand.
Im good with Drawingg API
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/7 "2002-12-18T20:14:32Z")
I understand what you mean Eilsoe.
You want it to draw from point to point, but what you are getting it from point 1 to new point over and over.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/8 "2002-12-18T20:36:16Z")
yes, I draw from point 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 in a row, that’s easy enough…
but next frame it’ll be 10-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9
see? It’ll draw a line from point 9 to 10 across the whole thing!!
And it’ll keep doing it every frame!! with the other numbers, as soon as they move in the front of the row again…
I need to make it understand to NOt do it…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/9 "2002-12-18T20:43:08Z")
What code are you using so far?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/10 "2002-12-18T21:01:52Z")
Shane waldeck, learn to read the entire thread…
there’s an attachment further up…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/11 "2002-12-18T21:05:40Z")
Christian Eilsoe… I have the attachment, but it doesn’t contain the code that you are using to draw your lines 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/12 "2002-12-18T21:19:35Z")
Shane Waldeck, I removed the line code, because it ticked me off…
I want to start from scratch with it…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/13 "2002-12-18T21:21:00Z")
Christian Eilsoe, Oh Ok Then 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/14 "2002-12-18T21:21:54Z")
_ **Eilsoe** smacks **LostinBeta** with a rotten mushy cheesy trout_
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/15 "2002-12-18T21:24:23Z")
[size=1]:: **dan4885** sends **eilsoe** into eternity of damnation for messing with **lostinbeta** ::[/size] :evil:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/16 "2002-12-18T21:27:54Z")
\*\*[SIZE=1]Eilsoe falls asleep becuase he just finished a 12 hour school day, but yet he finds the strength to whach Dan4885 with a trout the size of texas[/SIZE] \*\*
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/17 "2002-12-18T21:36:57Z")
[size=1]:: **dan4885** hires the New York Giants to take out the Texans, they have done it before::[/size]
[size=1]:: **dan4885** sets out a trick apple to trap **eilsoe** and use for fishing bait::[/size]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/18 "2002-12-18T21:46:53Z")
\*[SIZE=1]Eilsoe uses his bait skills to lure in a huge salmon and smacks Dan with it for spamming this thread up[/SIZE] \*
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/19 "2002-12-18T21:49:26Z")
[size=1]:: **dan4885** retaliates and catches the salmon with a fish net and eats the fish and eilsoe inside as a whole::[/size]
By the way, you started the spam! :o
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-drawing-api/9782/20 "2002-12-18T22:16:24Z")
You continued it :o
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