Linear Slug (Rev 04) Notes, by Ralph Abraham

Yellow slug leaves a blue trail.

One scene, one timeline, one frame.
On the stage: one empty Movie Clip 
(in which to draw blue line segments)
and one symbol, the yellow slug 
(also a Movie Clip).

The script is attached to this frame,
and creates an empty Movie Clip in which
to draw line segments. Everything is
handled by this script.

The chief feature of this script is the use
of the setInterval variable to control the
speed of drawing within the for loop.
Cf. Phillip Kerman, ActionScripting in Flash MX.

Rev. 03 differs from 02 only in that the
line slug is written as a function. Thus if you
have Flash MX and wish to have a line slug in
one of your own ActionScript MX programs,
you may copy and paste this function, and set
your own values for the 6 parameters.

Rev. 04 has more parameters: end point may be set.
NOTE: we wanted to issue a sequence of calls to
	this function with different args, eg,
	to slug-draw a triangle, but this does not work

Rev. 05 has one more param in the functions: the path
	to the movie clip in which to draw
ALSO, the function def has been removed to an external
	file, lineslug.as

Rev. 06 has one more param (total now = 10): the path
	to the slug symbol to move along the line

end: Line Slug 06 Notes