Making a cool custom cursor in Flash MX

emm · Power User Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 310

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could show me how to make a good custom cursor for flash mx in the shortest and simplest way. Any help or direction or tutorial will be very helpful. Thanking you in advance.
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hasnatme

I have made this cursor for you in Flash MX 6.0 and it should be work with all version too.

Okay now read carefully.......

First make a button with any name and then make a movieclip(which will be your cursor) and everymovieclip has a instance name and give the cursor movieclip instance name to "c" then write the scripts to the button in expert mode and you are done. An remember put the cursor movie outside of your stage.
If you need more help then let me know.

here is the code..........

Code:

on (rollOver) {
startDrag("c", true);
Mouse.hide();
setProperty("c", _visible, true);
}
on (rollOut) {
}
on (rollOut) {
stopDrag();
Mouse.show();
setProperty("c", _visible, false);
}

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Last edited by hasnatme on Thu Aug 26, 04 9:31 pm; edited 4 times in total

emm · Power User Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 310

Hello,

Thanks for the action script and direction. I tried to do as you said. It works! The cursor appears on the button. But I did not want it to appear only on a button. Is there a way that I can have the customized cursor apppear anywhere on the flash movie? For buttons and links I want the custom windows cursor. But anywhere else the customized cursor will show.

Thank you very much.
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quantum

EMM,

For what you are trying to do, the action script below should work. Copy and paste it in the first frame of the movie.

Code:

attachMovie("customCursorLinkageId", "c", 9999);
Mouse.hide();
c.onMouseMove = function(){
this._x = _root._xmouse;
this._y = _root._ymouse;
}

1. You have to make your cursor as a movie clip and drag an instance of the movie clip on the stage and name it "c"

2. From the library right click on the cursor movieclip, then select Linkage. Enable Export for action script, Enable Export in First frame and give the Identifier number 9999.

You are done. This method will change the cursor for anywhere on the flash movieclip stage. And this is better than any other method because of the simplicity. One problem remains though. For every button that you want a different cursor for, has to have its own custom cursor defined. Exactly as Hasnat has posted.

Hope that will work for you.
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hasnatme

@quantum
Thanks man...your code must be work.
@emm
Otherwise you can put this demo button outside of the stage too and give the command "on load" instead of "on roll over" and remove the code "on roll out"
And I think this will be also easier for you and as quantum said for each object if you want a diffrent cursor then you should follow the first step I said before.

If you want more...then let us know to solve your problem.

Hasnat Jamil.
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emm · Power User Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 310

Hey, you guys are great! Thanks for all the help. I think, I have got what I wanted.
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hasnatme

You are welcome

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