# Tweening a object w/actionscript
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tweening-a-object-w-actionscript/106442
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 5, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tweening-a-object-w-actionscript/106442 "2004-04-05T23:36:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@iloveitaly](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/iloveitaly)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tweening-a-object-w-actionscript/106442/1 "2004-04-05T23:36:03Z")
is it possible to make a object (box in my case) increase its width over a series of frames with actionscript? I would assume it would be somthing like this:
```auto
on (release) {
tellTarget("/path") {
this.box._width=200
}
}
```
its not working…
any ideas?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tweening-a-object-w-actionscript/106442/2 "2004-04-06T12:41:42Z")
I am writing the code on the \_root.bar
I did the targeting with the targeting thing on the actionscript panel. I also did it by “hand”, both didnn’t work.
i fooled around with this for awhile and went back to try to modifie the first posters code.
I did and came up with this:
```auto
on (release) {
onEnterFrame = function () {
if (_root.box._width<=_root.scale._width) {
_root.box._xscale += 10;
}
};
}
```
but i this code was applied to a new .fla with only 3 elements, the box, the box that i want the with to be, and the button. and it worked! so i brought it over to my other project changed the path, and it…well…didn’t work. It made the boxes width move but never stopped. any ideas?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2004, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tweening-a-object-w-actionscript/106442/3 "2004-04-06T12:58:31Z")
hmmm… inside the function , before the if, try tracing both sides.
```auto
onEnterFrame = function () {
trace("left side>>>>>"+_root.box._width);
trace("right side>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"+_root.box._width);
//
if (_root.b........
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tweening-a-object-w-actionscript/106442/4 "2004-04-06T13:04:27Z")
whooaa, you lost me there. what is tracing? whats with all the arrows?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tweening-a-object-w-actionscript/106442/5 "2004-04-06T18:16:51Z")
\ tracing. very important. It takes the value of your varibles or whatever you put in the () and outputs them to the "output window’ when you test your movie. cmd + enter.
I just stuck the arrows and text in there to make it easy to distinguish which value is which.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tweening-a-object-w-actionscript/106442/6 "2004-04-06T23:52:09Z")
THANK YOU!!!
after fooling around with it for an hour i finally got it to work!!!
here the code:
```auto
on (release) {
onEnterFrame = function () {
if (_root.mainmov.scalebox._width<= 700) {
_root.mainmov.scalebox._xscale += 10;
}
};
}
```
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
If your wondering, [heres](http://ambwhitestudios.com) the site i am working on.
the only menu that actully works so far is the details menu, and the front page isn’t complete. But other than the non-completeness of it what do u think design wise?
THANKS AGAIN!
hmm, I just came across a problem though, if i change the \<= to \>= the box infidentaly goes on, why? if there anything specail i have to do when i change that symbol ( the greater than less than symbol )? Also i should be able to use != instead of \<= symbols correct? because if i use them i get the same effect, line goes on forever.