Question

I am working on an older Flash project created in CS3 ActionScript 2.0 How can I make the pointer cursor change to the hand when hover over a list item?

_root.slidePanel.myList

‘myList’ is the list. I have traced out the contents of the List MC and it has a child MC called ‘content_mc’. I assumed this was the object containing all of my list items but the only members of this MC I can see (when tracing them out) are ‘setRGB’ and ‘searchKey’.

Can someone offer some help?

Answer 1

Not sure about AS2, but this should work in AS3. If you don’t want AS3 answers, you may want to untag ‘actionscript-3’

To get a custom cursor you’ll need to attach MouseEvent.MOUSE_ENTER and MouseEvent.MOUSE_LEAVE to whatever it is you want to have the custom cursor.

function mouseEntered(e:MouseEvent):void
{
 Mouse.hide();
 stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, moveCursor);
 //create mouse cursor and add to stage
}

function mouseLeft(e:MouseEvent):void
{
 Mouse.show();
 stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, moveCursor);
 //remove mouse cursor from stage
}

function moveCursor(e:MouseEvent):void
{
 // move the mouse cursor to wherever the mouse is.
}

This is one way of handling a custom cursor. You’ll need to design a cursor that can be moved around the stage as the mouse is moved.

EDIT to add:
In AS3, Sprites have a property: useHandCursor that can be set to true to show the pointer when hovered over.