How to make line trail following player?

[LemonyLime]

I want to have a line coming out of the player, showing the path he's taken. It has to be able to turn to show the player's exact path (all turns in this game are 90 degrees though, so that's probably not too hard). I also want the line to fade out after a certain number of pixels behind the player.

I can do this with scaling multiple single pixel actives, but I imagine there must be an easier/higher performance way of doing it. Any ideas?

[BartekB]

I did this for my game, I used a surface object to do it with couple of actives.

Basicly, at start. 10 actives called 'Trails' start at players position.

Always >> 10 pos to 9, 9 to 8, 8 to 7, 7 to 6, 6 to 5, 5 to 4, 4 to 3, 3 to 2, 2 to 1, 1 to player
Always >>
Draw 16 pix line on 1 and player,
Draw 15 pix line on 1 and 2,
Draw 14 pix line on 2 and 3,
Draw 13 pix line on 3 and 4,
etc etc.