okay, i've been tearing out my hair for three days because of this. i am now currently bald, so i can no longer stay stressed out. thus, i have come to you for help. here are the problems:

1) i have a html file load up in a dynamic text box. this html file has links. i also have a custom cursor for the "over" status within the flash, but whenever the cursor goes over the link in the html, the original system (windows) cursor is shown. now, is there anyway i can get rid of that stupid windows cursor and replace it with my own?

2) related to the above question is this. whenever the html link is pressed, the link is activated. HOWEVER, the cursor is STILL in the "over" state until it is clicked again over a non-hot spot. i have tried everything i could think of, such as updateAfterEvent(mouse---), but nothing has worked. how can i fix this?

thanks for reading this. i hope SOMEONE can help out here. if you need any source code, i'll post it.

-Kemuri

Life is painful, sleep it off.

okay, if i understand you correctly, you want me to make the cursor a movie clip that draggable, right? well, the cursor is already a movie clip. here what i did to make it:

1) made a two frame movie clip, and each frame has "stop"
2) frame 1 is the normal state (the arrow). frame 2 is the over state (the finger)
3) i used the mouse.hide thing to hide the system cursor to replace it with my custom using onClipevent(---). then i used _root._xmouse/_ymouse to track the cursor movement.
4) wrote some code to check if the _root had any instances (normally you can just check MC's variable names, but i find that buttons don't have any. so i just used "_root.instance---" for the buttons). if the _xmouse/_ymouse is over those objects, it goes to the appropriate frame.

now the thing is it works fine with the flash buttons. it's only the embedded html links that's causing me grief. I have a few theories on why it won't work, but i don't know if you really care to hear it. now the whole custom cursor thing really isn't the problem. i can do without the pretty arrow i made if the system cursor (on over state) would just refresh after it clicked the html link. but that's another story.

i really appreciate you taking the time out to post. i've asked these samek questions on just about every forum i could think of, with absolutely NO repsonse from anyone. all i see are a whole lot of views, but no damn replies. again, thank you for at least trying to help out.

-Kemuri
P.S.- dig your fish. is it a fish? it's cool.

Life is painful, sleep it off.

Yes, I'm starting to think that I can't fix this problem. It's funny to note, that you are STILL the only one who has tried to help me on this issue. Everyone else on other forums on other websites are idiots. I ask a legitimate question, yet other posts that ask "how do i make a frame?" get replies instead of me. Again, thanks for replying. I'm begining to think EVERYONE is a flash newbie... "oh, oh! i can TWEEN! I ROCK!" ugh.

I'm really not a flash newbie, although this one problem has actually made me go and post on forums, since i can find NO documentation anywhere concerning this issue. I tend to try to find the answers on my own, before relying to craptacular forum posters. (Not you of course.... hehe)

Anyway, the point is: thanks for your time. that's about it. lol

-Kemuri

Life is painful, sleep it off.