Re: FLASH: touch my button, nooo..not the hand

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 11:49 PM 2/9/00 , you wrote:


>Does anybody know if it's possible to have a button that does not activate

>the hand icon (on a rollover).

>

>thanks, brody


John Croteau offered this advice quite awhile back. Unfortunately the 

example cited is no longer on the ftp site (anybody know where to find 

it?). I'm not sure what the implications are for the button functioning 

correctly -- I assume it would still respond to mouse clicks.


 > >> > The normal cursor can be retarded and not seen by creating a

 > >> > loop so Flash never releases the cursor and it is never displayed.

 > >I believe that ChickenPan2.fla which on the FC Anonymous FTP site shows

 > >this.

 > >If not let me know. It features the famous Flash Chicken.

 > >ftp://206.107.180.51/PanScroll/

 > So, ChickenPan2.fla hides the cursor by constantly replacing the button

 > that the cursor passes over. Is that correct?

Yes, because of the loop Flash never has time to update the system

cursor information on the type of cursor needed.


Flash displays the new button and calculates what is in the position of

where the cursor is and what type it will be (i.e. button hand or

pointer) based on whether it is over a button or not and is about to

send the new cursor type info to the system but is interrupted by itself

to recalculate for new frame and position to see if it is over a button

or not. Therefore, because of the constant fast looping the cursor

update command is constantly being updated before it has the time needed

to send the current cursor display info to the system. The result is the

system's cursor never receives the data to display the cursor hand to

indicate that it is over the button. If you move quickly on and off the

buttons you can get the hand on when it shouldn't be.


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John Croteau

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Marc Hoffman


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