Flash :: How To Create An Animation That Stems From The Mouse Pointer?

Mouse Pointer Does Not Revert Back To Any Other Tool Pointer
Hello!

This is something very odd: as I opened up a file that I'm working on, the mouse pointer was set to the Eraser tool. As I move it around the stage, it flashes, alternating between ther Eraser tool pointer and the actual tool that I had selected (Selection tool).

I cannot enable any other tool/pointer! If I click on any other tool, the pointer remains the same, although when moved around, as it flashes, the newly-selected tool alternates with the Eraser tool. Nonetheless, the only tool that actually does something is the Eraser.

Also, launching a new file shows the same behaviour, so it is not seemingly file-specific.

Has anyone seen this before? Is it a bug in the app, a setting...? How to fix?

Thanks much!

VicAtomic

Mouse Pointer Change From Hand To Pointer..
hey guys, m not quite sure on how to do this all i find is how to change to a customer mouse curser which i dont really wana have to do..

so.. is there a way to change the mouse cursor from the hand used on a mouse over to its usual default arrow?.. as i want sumthing to happen on a rollover but i dont want the cursor to change.

erm thanks for any help in advance.

khuti

How To Create An Animation That Follows The Mouse
Hi there
Im creating an animation that will be about 1000px long - what i want to do is to have the scene move with the mouse - ie when the mouse goes to the left the scene goes to the left - I will also have object on the scene that will be buttons - is this possible? any help would be greatly appreciated and direction at all!
many thanks
niki

Keep Mouse Pointer As Pointer
I created a dancying butterfly on this site: http://www.transformedwoman.com/beta.php and I would like to know how I can keep the mouse pointer as a "pointer" when someone tries to touch the butterfly (the butterfly runs from the mouse pointer).

Thanks.

Pointer Animation
Hello,

I have found something very interesting (for me) on the following page in the net:

http://www.tu-dresden.de/etieeh/Lehr...hnik/raumz.htm

Could anyone help me to build something like this in flash? Which technique should be used?
I tried to do this with several mc´s but they don´t work together... I can´t connect them like the pointers in the both animations at the bottom.

Thanks

Is It Possible To Change The Mouse Pointer On Mouse Over
Hai flash friends,

I had a small doubt, pls see this and give me ur comments.

On mouseover the button the mouse arrow pointer changing to hand pointer. I don't like to change the hand pointer when the user over the button in my flash movie. I know its a default one, but is there any way to avoid this changing. So that i can click the button in normal mouse pointer[arrow].

If anyone knows idea to ignore the mouse changing while on button area, pls give me an idea. I'll be very thankful for him/her.

thx
sathish

Mouse Pointer Changes
I am designing a page with load into´s to my movie how do I do so the mouse pointer only changes in the "in"loaded movie?

/Fredrik

Mouse Pointer
Hi.

Is there any way to make a button not have the hand pointer when a user rolls over it?

I would like the pointer not change at all when it is rolled over.
is this possible?

thanx john

Mouse Pointer Help
hey people i posted yesterday about making a penalty shoot out game but couldnt find any help but i have managed to mock something which might work.

anyway i have goal keeper gloves as the pointer and then you move the pointer to deflect the ball anyway this works but to add more "realism" to the game, i seen another penalty game that used this technique but when you moved the mouse left or right the gloves tilted as though the keeper was diving it looked very cool and was wondering if anyone know how to achieve this?

cheers

Mouse Pointer
Does anyone know where I can get a good vector graphic of a mouse pointer with shadow to use for a tutorial I'm making?

Cheers

Mouse Pointer
Hello , i have made a movie clip of a rotating circle , i would like to know how i can make this the defualt mouse pointer in the flash move , is there a simple action script i can amend to it? , Please help!

Mouse Pointer
how could i forget this???

i forgot how to make a custom mouse pointer. i have the MC, but i forgot how to make it follow the mouse!!

plz help

Mouse Pointer
How can I change the hand that appears when you roll over a button into a different image?

I have a pretty big file with lots of rollover buttons and movies. Is there any way to just do it for the entire movie with one script?

Thanks!!!

Mouse Pointer
How would you set a mouse pointer instead of a curser?

I would like to set it for the entire move however my "buttons" are movie clips and not buttons which have out functions.

Cant seem to find anywhere on the web and what an easy script.

Mouse Pointer
This is my first post in this forum (I expect not the last).
My firts language isn't English because of it I can do a lot of errors, I request excuses for advance.

Now my problem
I want to change the apparience of the mouse pointer when you are on an active link (I don't want the typic hand).

Thanks in advance!

Cheers!!

Mouse Pointer
hi folks i want to lock the mouse pointer at certain position when the movie loads.. and then later on.. it can run as usual..but when it starts i want to lock the mouse position..

can anyone help

Mouse Pointer
hy
how can i make a mouse ponter what only moves around a point (or around it's axis)?

Mouse Following Pointer
hello - i am wondering if anybody could help me

i want my flash movie to be a picture and wen u scroll the mose around the screen i want the picture to move in the opposite direction if possible...

so if i move my mouse left the picture moves right proportionally

can anybody help?

Following Mouse Pointer
Hello,
I am trying to write a piece of action script to get a box to follow the x movement of the mouse. Here is the actionscript I have that works:

Code:

box_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
var xMouse = _root._xmouse;
if(Math.abs(xMouse - this._x) < 1) {
this._x = xMouse;
} else {
this._x -= (this._x-xMouse) / 6;
}
}

but can someone help me with a piece of action script or edit of this code, that will restore the bar to a certain position if the cursor is no longer over the swf. Hope that makes sense.
James

How Can I Create A "mouse Interactive" Animation?
I'm trying to create an animation that would be linked to the position of the mouse on the flash window. so if you start the mouse at the left and strart draging right it will advance the animation as you move the mouse, if you go the opposite direction it will reverse the animation. I've seen many animations using this, but I'm not sure how to do it.

any help would be greatly appricited.

States Of The Mouse Pointer-1 The One I Need
hy,
is there any way for a button action to happen if the mouse pointer, while the button being depressed, mooves in and out of the hit area. (something like painbrush.

drag out and drag over don't do the thing that I want cause the button action hapens if the mouse button is depressed while in the hit area.

thanx

Customising The Mouse Pointer
What's the simplest way to make my mouse pointer change from the standard arrow into a graphic when I click on a particular button, and then change back when I click on another button??

How Do I Hide The Mouse Pointer?
How do I hide (turn off) the mouse pointer in flash4? Anyone know?

Mouse Pointer And Resizing Bug?
I am using Flash 5 and whenever I use the paintbrush tool, the cursor is a large black block no matter what size or shape the tool actually is. Also when I resize or move or create shapes, you cannot see anything (such as guidelines or anything) and the object doesn't move until you let go of the mouse button. The program has worked fine until recently. Any would is apreciated, thank you.

Mouse Pointer Replacement
i am searching for how the custom pointers are done in a swf movie. not for a page im working on or anything, i am learning flash and want to learn how that is done. so if anybody can teach me or direct me to any tuts on it. the process of learning flash is kinda confusing and long, but i havent found any other better way than to ask about different things as i go.

thanks for your time everybody,
j-son

Mouse Pointer Question...
Ok say I have a square on the page and if you move your mouse over it moving in an upward motion it moves under the square, but from any other direction it moves over the square (left to right, right to left, downward motion), how would one do this, . hope this makes sense...can't think my way around this for some reason... and I don't just want the mouse to dissapear like hide mouse, I want it to look like it is half under the square peeking out sort of if you move from up to down...

I guess I also need to know if it is possible to hide a mouse that has been replaced with a movie clip image...
g.

Auto Mouse Pointer
How to make the mouse cursor pointing to the buttons automatically when I click on a button?

Mouse Within And Choosing A Pointer
I'm pretty stuck on these, but I'm sure there's an easy way to do what I want:

1. I know that I can test for rollOver and rollOut, but how can I test for "mouse is currently over"? I thought I remembered something from years ago called "mouseWithin" or something (maybe that was in Director).

2. I assigned a rollOver event to a movie clip and the mouse is automatically turned into a hand symbol. I want to keep it as the default arrow. How can I control this?

Thanks!

-Christian

Mouse Pointer Graphic HELP
Hello,

I was wondering if it is at all possible to create a mouse graphic for a website that is not a Flash site. For example. I want to make the mouse pointer look like a helicopter for a particular website. However the Site will not be built using flash. It will be standard HTML, is there any way to have a HTML site yet have the cursor look like a helicopter?

Thanks!!

Mouse Pointer Graphic
Does anyone know of a way, Flash or otherwise to create a graphic with animation that replaces the mouse pointer on a HTML website. I need to create a helicopter graphic that takes the place of the users regular mouse pointer but it will not be a Flash site. Is there a way to integrate that into a website???

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Using The Mouse Pointer Dynamical ?
Hey. I am trying to make a game in flash and I need to know how to:
1. make a text show the coordinates of the mousepointer?
2. make the pointer invisible (But it still has to be there)

Mouse Pointer Text Box
Does anyone know of any good tut's or movies for adding a small text box next to the mouse pointer for when the mouse moves over an object/button.

cheers

Mouse Pointer Rotation?
hey people im developing a penalty shoot out game where you play the keeper anyway i have gloves has the pointer which you move to save the ball and i am wantin to have them rotate slightly when you move either left or right i.e the fingers point up verticly when in the middle of the screen then horizontly left or right when at the laft or right of the screen

I have this code to the move clip that the pointer is in

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._rotation = _root._xmouse/1;
}

whic rotates the movie clip but it is not in the position i explained above it seems to start the rotation from the right of the screen I messed about with xmouse/1 part changing 1 to different values but it just adds more spins when i move accross the screen any ideas?
cheers
Matt

Need Mouse Pointer To Disappear
I am doing a site where I have made a custom pointer. When I go over the buttons, I need the pointer to disappear until the mouseout. Thanks for yer time!

--czietuh

Mouse Pointer Question
hello,

I have a movie_clip that flashes when you mouse over it. I used the this code:

on (rollOver) {
_alpha=35
}

It works but the mouse pointer is a little hand instead of a pointer. I thought that the hand was only supposed to show over a button instance.

Also I forget, How do you make it so that someone cannot right click my movie and zoom in...I thought you could turn this off in the publish options but I cannot find it.

I'm using Flash MX

thanks

Repositioning The Mouse Pointer?
Hi,

I need to reposition the mouse pointer using AS?

Thanks.

[F8] Direction Of Mouse Pointer
Hi
I want to create a custom cursor, in which the cursor is replaced by a mc - so far so good.

But how can I detect which direction the mouse pointer is moving in so as to have the effect of a "pointer" that changes direction with the movement of the mouse?

[MX] Freezing The Mouse Pointer
OK. Here's the problem. On the attached .fla file I need the curser to freeze in its position at frame 4 for mabey two seconds, and then go onto frame 5. Right now all I can think of is hiding the moue pointer and loading a similar one in its place. Any suggestions? I've done a search for this but couldn't find anything.

[F8] Mouse Pointer With Easing
First of all, let's say I don't use Flash except for frame by frame animations. I have always used SwishMax so I'm having trouble with using ActionScript in Flash 8.
I'm making a dance website (actually portal) with my friend and there are some things I'd like to do but don't know how. I searched everywhere but can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for.
Let me explain what I want to do...
I have three lights on the right of a banner that I have made and I would like them to point in the direction of mouse cursor. I can do that, but what I can't do is make the lights point only to a specific point with easing.
Hmmm, I can't explain better since English is not my native language. Hope there is someone that can help.
I've attached the banner do you can understand better.

Object Following The Mouse Pointer...
Hello Action Scripters !

I have another little problem with AS... I tried to explain it best possible way in this little screenshot, so I put some notes. Anyway, it will be a lot more understandable if you take a look at the SWF file first and see how that arrow moves.

This is the screenshot with few notes...

And files (FLA as well as SWF) are attached...

Thanks in advance to everyone who can assist with this problem!

Proximity To Mouse Pointer
Hey there,
So a sort of involved question. I need to know how you folks go about creating a zone around an object that can activate certain events when the mouse enters that zone.
Basically, a rectangle around a button that when the mouse gets within a certain distance, the button moves towards the mouse or to a specified position. We've all seen sites like this... is there a "proximity" or "distance" listener?? Basically what I did, and this is the most basic one can get with the idea, was to create a rectangle, and use a series of "if" statements to determine if the cursor is within the boundaries of said rectangle. Then, when it is, the menu items jump out from behind a logo and become much more visible and clickable.
Most specifically, I want to ideally have the buttons move towards their final positions based off of how close the mouse is-- tween percentages, basically. I just cant figure out how to rig this up.
And I think I'm taking the very, very hard way about it. Plus, it doesnt work. Does anyone have suggestions??

Can We Controll The Mouse Pointer
Can we control the mouse pointer :

Means I have to tell the mouse pointer not to go beyond 500 x axis.

Is it possible.....

Mouse Pointer On Buttons
hi all!

one general...but how can i leave the default mouse pointer when it rollovers a button instead of changing to the little hand pointer?

cheers

Change The Mouse Pointer
HIi Friends,

I Have A Doubt.How To Change The mouse Pointer Inside A flash Movie.
I Create A Movie Clip Named m1.Then Use The Following scripts,

Mouse.hide();
m1.startDrag();

But The Problem Is It Can't Fit The Correct Mouse Position,And When I Click On a Button It Cant Work.

What Can I Do.

Custom Mouse Pointer Mc
Alright i have a custom mouse pointer. I have it stopped on frame 1. However when i click i want it to play frame 5. I put an invisible button and issued the command play to frame 5, however, even though it plays frame 5, the mouse becomes useless and i can't click any other buttons outside of the mc

Using Alternate Mouse-pointer
Hello!

When I try to use the old AS 2.0 method by updating the movieclip's position to mouseX and mouseY using Event.ENTER_FRAME, the new mouse-pointer cant click on any buttons on stage.

Thx ahead!

Hide Mouse Pointer
Hi Friends,
I want to hide mouse pointer when my application runs. Following is my code but it doesn't work.

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute"
creationComplete="mouse1()">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
public function mouse1() : void
{
Mouse.hide();
}

]]>
</mx:Script>
</mx:WindowedApplication>

Change Mouse Pointer
Hullo,

I'm slightly new to all this, so this question might have an obvious answer. I have a Movie Clip (just a still image), to which I've added a MouseEvent.CLICK event. The problem is that the user has no way of knowing they can click on it as the pointer stays an arrow.

My question is, can I use ActionScript 3 to make the mouse pointer into a hand when it passes over the MovieClip?

Thanks,

Paul