How do I handle a rope to a bucket

I searched around and couldn't find anything to answer my questions.

If I just missing something, I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

I have a "bucket" that is attached to a "rope." It is going vertically up and down the screen via the arrow keys (or other similar controls.)

I need the bucket to be attached overhead to a fixed location via rope. I currently have the bucket moving up and down the screen without an issue however no rope yet.

The rope is dual colors (a few pixels of color A and then a few pixels of color B.) The Rope is not "animated" in the fact that the colors are stationary. I just need the rope to grow as the bucket goes down, and get shorter as the bucket goes up.

Such as attaching a line to two points on the layout. One near the top that is stationary and the other to the bucket handle that has it's Y location variable.

Any suggestions, ideas, etc?

I do know that the coloring sounds weird but it is trying to implement something from another platform.

Thank you for your time, assistance and knowledge.

You can't draw from point a to b, you 'll need to stretch the rope instead. So your rope needs to be stretchable or tile-able

using a tiled background to create the rope from hook to bucket you could set its position to hook.x,hook,y , its width to distance (hook.x,hook.y,bucket.x,bucket.y) and its angle to angle(hook.x,hook.y,bucket.x,bucket.y)

if you'd rather set it to an imagepoint than the origin of the bucket, create an imagepoint and us bucket.imagepointX(1),bucket.imagepointY(1)

Thanks IndieKiwi and LittleStain for giving me some useful info to work with.

Off hand, I am not sure what would work best yet, however, this gives me some direction to see what does.

Thanks again!