Creating custom cursor effect in FlashMX 2004

Thiswill teach you how to create a custom curser for flash movie. Here we'll use movieclip symbol and some actionscript to develop custom cursor. The flash doc file also included.

Please note:

1. You need Flash Player 7.0 installed to view this.

Demonstration

Hope, you knows about Basics of flash such as different kinds of symbols used in flash.

You need to create a movieclip symbol for customized curser design and you have to type some code then the flash will hide the existing curser and show the new curser.

Create movieclip symbol.

Follow these steps:

Press (Ctrl+F8) to create a new symbol.
"Create New symbol" window will appear
Name your symbol CurserNew_mc.
Click on movieclip behavior and press "OK"
Draw an arrow like this to replace the curser.

Now come to "Scene 1" which is the main movie
Click on the "Scene 1" on top of the timeline window as shown below

custom cursor

In "Scene 1" of your Main Movie

Press (Ctrl+L) to open Library window and drag CurserNew_mc symbol from library onto stage. .
In the instance text box of the property window, name this Symbol to "cursernew".
Select 1st Frame of "Layer1". Press "F9" key to open Actionscript panel
With Frame1 of the layer 1 still being selected, type the below given script in the action panel.

Mouse.hide()
startDrag(cursernew,true)

Here's the result! Press Ctrl+Enter to view and enjoy!.

Below is another example to give you more ideas about customizing the curser

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