Using a slider to change line thickness

Hi,
This is a continuation of a project I have been posting over the last week.
My latest problem is trying to make a slider that changes the line thickness in a drawing app that I would to share with my students. When moved from left to right a circle changes scale. This circle would act as a visual reference on the stage telling the viewer that the line thickness is changing. Right now I just want to figure out how to connect the slider so that the circle changes dynamically. Once I get that I feel I can figure out how to connect it to lineStyle().
I hope I'm explaining this clearly.
The current code I am attaching has the circle change size at onle two points-the far left and far right.
I keep trying to write something that uses mouseX properties but so far nothing is working.
Thanks

Hi,
I appreciate the help and, yes, that pretty much looks like what I was going for.
Your solution looks clean!
The trick seems to be to connect the value change in that line to the drawing line which is mouseX and mouseY.
A couple of errors have me wondering if it is possible to change the lineStyle() dynamically. This is vector based and I think I might have to swtch over to a bitmap and use a Sprite, whichhas more of a chunky look tio it - based on a few previous attempts I made.
I switched gears today and tempoarily and made a lot of buttons that change the line thickness. A swf file is attached.
I will take your code and see if I can use it as a building block to change the line dynamically.
If I figuret it out I'll post it.
I also just ran into info on the Adobe website regarding the strokeObject, which is nowhere to be found in my reference manuals for AS3.I think the strokeObject allows you to make creative changes to a drawing line. So much to learn but hey that's what it's all about
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