Enabling the hand cursor throughout a room escape game?

How exactly do you enable the hand cursor, throughout a room escape game, without it disrupting any other buttons or movie clips? This method is used so that you can't discover all the locations you need to click on.

Could someone please help?

Thanks.

are you referring to - useHandCursor ?

ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference
ActionScript classes > Button > useHandCursor

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A Boolean value that, when set to true (the default), indicates
whether a pointing hand (hand cursor) displays when the mouse
rolls over a button. If this property is set to false, the arrow
pointer is used instead.

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Code:

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var mc = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("mc", _root.getNextHighestDepth ());
with (mc) {
        beginFill (0, 0);
        lineTo (Stage.width, 0); lineTo (Stage.width, Stage.height); lineTo (0, Stage.height);
        endFill ();
}
mc.onRelease = function () {};

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realMakc - you won't be able to activate buttons
movieclips are okay as long as you swap the depth
test with a movieclip (clip) and a button (btn) -

PHP Code:

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var mc = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("mc", 0);
with (mc) {
    beginFill (0, 0);
    lineTo (Stage.width, 0); lineTo (Stage.width, Stage.height); lineTo (0, Stage.height);
    endFill ();
}
mc.onRelease = function () {};

clip.swapDepths(1000);
clip.onRelease = function () {trace("OK");};

btn.swapDepths(1010);
btn.onRelease = function () {trace("not OK");}; 


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an alternative is to use a custom cursor -

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Mouse.hide;

this.attachMovie("myCursor","myCursor",10000,{_x:_xmouse,_y:_ymouse});
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
myCursor._x = _xmouse;
myCursor._y = _ymouse;
}

clip.useHandCursor = false;
clip.onRelease = function () {trace("OK");};

btn.useHandCursor = false;
btn.onRelease = function () {trace("OK now");}; 


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Thanks, appreciated. One more question...

How do you hide the mouse even after you right click using a custom cursor?

not possible..afaik

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Originally Posted by Gibson221

Thanks, appreciated. One more question...

How do you hide the mouse even after you right click using a custom cursor?

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This will do it:

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this.onEnterFrame=function(){
Mouse.hide();
}

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Yep, spot on... Thanks!