Contents tagged with cursors

• Getting the cursor hand to appear over MovieClips containing text in Flash

  07 December 2007

  I've been making an animated button using a MovieClip in Flash using ActionScript 3. The problem I had was making the hand cursor appear over it, firstly at all and then when my button had text in it. To make a MovieClip behave like a button and use the hand cursor set the following properties for the MovieClip. clip.buttonMode = true; clip.useHandCursor = true; Next, if your MovieClip contains a TextField set the following property for the TextField. clip.labelText.mouseEnabled = false; This means that the button underneath deals with the mouse, so the cursor will behave in the way that … more