# Trouble with lineTo
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-lineto/111468
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 27, 2004, 5:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-lineto/111468 "2004-05-27T05:53:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@voidoid](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/voidoid)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 5:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-lineto/111468/1 "2004-05-27T05:53:57Z")
I’m new so please bear w/ me…
On the main stage i have a movie clip that contains a movie clip that contains a bitmap (\_root.movieclip1.movieclip2.bitmap). The actions for the instance of movieclip2 cause the bitmap to follow a sine wave path across the stage.
I’d like to draw a line behind the bitmap, so I created another movieclip on the main stage that has these actions:
onClipEvent (load) {
moveTo (##x and y positions from other movieclip##);
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
lineStyle (5, 0xff00ff, 100);
lineTo (##x and y positions from other movieclip##);
}
the timeline only has one frame (can this be done with only one frame??)
anyway, I’m lost and would appreciate some help, thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-lineto/111468/2 "2004-05-27T13:09:11Z")
So what does it do?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-lineto/111468/3 "2004-05-27T14:31:34Z")
It does nothing, there are no lines, just the bitmaps moving across the stage.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-lineto/111468/4 "2004-05-27T15:40:56Z")
Isn’t that because if you use the lineTo command it acts alot like the moveTo command.
Difference: moveto only moves your pen to the point specified. Lineto moves the pen to that specific point, but also draws a line from the starting point.
In other words if you use the lineto command in the way you are trying to do, it is basically trying to draw a line from your coordinates to the same coordinates, thus not drawing any visible line.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-lineto/111468/5 "2004-05-27T22:30:22Z")
so how could i get the line drawn? i’m stuck
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2004, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-lineto/111468/6 "2004-05-28T12:19:38Z")
Are you sure it’s not a scope issue? Can you trace the coordinates of that clip you’re tracking?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2004, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-lineto/111468/7 "2004-05-28T13:03:25Z")
hey nah what ur missing is moveTo
so
moveTo(object.\_x,object.\_y)
lineTo(object1.\_x,object.\_y)
thats what ur trying to do right i made an example kinda thing for fun i call it the funlines
[http://home.1asphost.com/lordsamot/funlines.swf](http://home.1asphost.com/lordsamot/funlines.swf)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2004, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-lineto/111468/8 "2004-05-28T14:15:51Z")
Nope. lineTo also moves the pen, so I think the problem comes from something else.