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Is there a reason that we couldn't have done that with the drag and drop actions?

Gah, the more time I spend trying to do this stuff, the more I realize that I suck at it... I'll never understand how I'm smart enough to make it into college two years early, but at the same time too stupid to do a simple animation with gamemaker .

Check the Game maker community, there are many downloadable examples of things like this, even a Novice questions and answers section incase you're still stuck.

Link - gmc.yoyogames.com