Link to webpage and cursor change

[Zagek]

Hi,

I have a flash file and I want to be able to hover over it and see the cursor change and when I click I want to be sent to a page I specify on a website.

I've tried "on(release) etc" in ActionScript (although I know nothing!) and it says I need to use NavigateToURL so I tried searching on the Internet and couldn't find anything?

Can anyone please help? I'll happily elaborate if necessary.

[Suthers]

There are two things you should know about:

Mouse.hide();

AND

.startDrag(true);

Mouse.hide() makes the mouse cursor invisible when the movie starts (hide is a method of the Mouse class).

startDrag() makes whatever you put in front of it the new mouse cursor(startDrag is a method of the movieClip class.

Example:

Mouse.hide();

var newCursor=put the instance name here

newCursor.startDrag(true);

true means 'on'
false means 'off'

You may be able to use this:

1)First create a stage EventListener:

movieClip_name.addEventListener()

2)Now we want our stage to listen for something namely:

movieClip_name.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OV ER,)

3) Then we want to trigger a function when the object is rolled over:

movieClip_name.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OV ER, mouseChange)

4) Now we have to create the mouseChange function:

function mouseChange(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
Mouse.hide();
newCursor.startDrag(true);
}

5)But to make this even better, we can make this work for any object we mouse over:

function mouseChange(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
Mouse.hide();
evt.target.startDrag(true);
}

THE FINISHED SCRIPT:

movieClip_name.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, mouseChange)

function mouseChange(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
Mouse.hide();
evt.target.startDrag(true);
}

So we turned on the 'newCursor' as we drag the mouse over the targeted movieClip, whichever one we mouse over

[Suthers]

You can try out my Variables&Functions tutorial here:

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...56#post4241856

If you want a better explanation of Functions and Variables.