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Creating a Custom Mouse Cursor in Flash

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

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Just in case, add a _root. in front of each _xmouse and _ymouse operator, to make sure that Flash knows it needs to return to the main stage before getting those mouse coordinates:

onclipEvent (enterFrame) {
_x = _root._xmouse;
_y = _root._ymouse;
}

You can take a look at the work-in-progress here, but you’ll see one major problem: we’ve got two mouse cursors now, instead of one. The new cursor doesn’t replace the standard one; it just follows it. It’s not a real cursor; it’s just a graphic object representing the default one.

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