Using custom mouse cursor to drag a window

[suggs]

I used your custom mouse cursor to tackle an issue I have. I created a Flash window that plays video. It's like a popup, but it's a loaded .swf. There are 4 buttons on this window. I created the window so that you can drag it when clicking anywhere within the area of the window. All is working fine at this point.

I didn't like the fact that when you mouseover the window the cursor changes to the stock hand cursor. Of course, this doesn't change when you mouseover the 4 buttons on the window, so it could stand to be a little more intuitive. This is where your custom cursor came in. Now when I mouseover the window I get my custom cursor and it changes to the stock hand cursor when I mouse over any of the 4 buttons on that window.

Now for the issue:
When I click and drag the window the custom cursor stays there. I can drag the window. It's not until I stop dragging AND move the mouse before the custom cursor snaps back to where it should be.

Is there any work around for this? I couldn't figure out how I might accomplish this.

Thanks for any help!!!

[poab]

Hi,

Really difficult to say without seeing how you've done it (I assume with startDrag() and stopDrag()?). this is probably the easiest way depending on what else you've got going on in the file (it assumes that the cursor is a movieclip with the instance name 'myCursor').


function customCursor(active){
if(active){
//hide mouse
Mouse.hide();
//make cursor visible
_root.myCursor._visible = true;
//position cursor as per real cursor
_root.myCursor.onEnterFrame = function(){
this._x = _root._xmouse;
this._y = _root._ymouse;
}
}else{
//show mouse
Mouse.show();
//hide cursor
_root.myCursor._visible = false;
//stop positioning cursor
delete _root.myCursor.onEnterFrame;
}
}
//
//
//
//
//to set cursor going use:
customCursor(true);
//to set cursor back to normal:
customCursor(false);

cheers.