Making a road in Flash

Hi,
I want to make a road in flash. You got a road with white stripes on it but it aint moving. I want the stripes to come at you to make it like you are driving the road.... Its not a straigt road but diagonal and dissapearing at the eind of the horizon... Does someone know how I can make this like it is real? It has to loop over and over again...
Tnx
Joep

When you say it is a diagonal road you mean like this:
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where the vanishing point is in one corner of the screen?
Or do you want a road that curves as the movie loops?
Rather than use ActionScript you would best refer to drawing techniques in Flash and making the start frame and endframe of the loop coincide with each other.
To make the dashed lines you would simply motion-tween or classic-tween some narrow trapezoid shapes that are Movie Clips and go from there. The border shapes would get curved based on the way you drew them on your stage and you could tween the dashed lines in accord with those curved lines.

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