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Suppressing the Pointer icon on Flash buttons

Here's a little nugget that I discovered today that some of you may have known for a while, but is new to me.

If you have a button (or a movieclip, in my case) that has some ActionScript associated with it (on RollOver, on Release, etc.) you by default get the standard, web link styled mouse pointer icon. Normally that's totally fine. But, in my particular case I am building some custom video players where I wanted the user to be able to click on the scrub bar to jump ahead in the video playback. But I didn't want to see the cursorhand when they roll over the scrub bar. By using this:

myMovieClip.useHandCursor = false;

myMovieClip.onRelease = function(){

     trace("a function was called");

}

you can avoid the cursor hand completely. Simple and easy. Works great.

Posted: Thursday, January 18 2007 @ 12:57 PM
Categories: Flash

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1. | On January 18, 2007 6:16 PM, Josh Tynjala added:

On a related note, in ActionScript 3, the hand cursor is disabled by default. You still use the property "useHandCursor" to control this behavior, but you also have to set "buttonMode" to true first.

2. | On January 18, 2007 8:17 PM, Steve Smart added:

Oh, that's great to know thanks. I feel like I'm still learning AS2 stuff every day, and now along comes AS3! Oh well. Looking forward to tackling that too.

Suppressing the Pointer icon on Flash buttons

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1. | On January 18, 2007 6:16 PM, Josh Tynjala added:

2. | On January 18, 2007 8:17 PM, Steve Smart added:

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