# Tweening a object w/actionscript

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tweening-a-object-w-actionscript/47634>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 5, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tweening-a-object-w-actionscript/47634 "2004-04-05T23:36:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![iloveitaly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ea924/32.png) [@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/47634/1 "2004-04-05T23:36:03Z")

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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?