In this tutorial we will
learn how to change mouse cursor to our own made custom
cursor and change it back to default cursor in flash through
action script.
In first phase we will do design work of the file.
open a new flash file with dimenson 200x150. In
this movie i have used three differenet cursors
to show the custom cursors. So design 3 small
movie clips that you would like to use as your
cursors and give them name msc, msd and mse respectively.
Place these movie clips on stage and give their
instance names same as their names. Now to change
the cursor we need some buttons on the click of
which we will change our mouse cursors. so create
four buttons, three for our custom cursors and
one other for getting back our default cursor.
So we have completed the design work of Custom
Cursor movie. This is all you want to design for
this tutorial. Now get ready for the scripting
part of the movie.
In the scripting part i will tell you the script
of first button that will change our default cursor
to custom cursor. So for this just select the
first button and write this script in the action
pannel.
on (release) {
Mouse.hide();
startDrag(msc, true);
} |
Copy and paste this script on Button 2 and Button
3 also but remember to change msc in button
1 script to msd and mse for button 2 and button
3. So when we test our movie we will see that
it's working but when select any other cursor
the position of previous cursor gets changed.
So for get this working we add these lines in
our current script for button 1.
if (cs == "b") {
msd._x = 100;
msd._y = 10;
} else if (cs == "c") {
mse._x = 140;
mse._y = 10;
}
cs = "a"; |
What this script is doing is it's checking
which cursor is currently selected and setting
the positions of other cursors to their default
positions. In the same way we can put this validation
on button 2 and button 3.
On the default we will put the stopDrag() and
mouse.show action with the validation of all
three cursors. Refer .fla file if still in confusio
what to write for Default button and on button
2 and button 3.
