Hand Cursor when rolling over MovieClips in AS3

Question

My goal is to simply have the cursor swap to be a hand (pointer) when I roll over a MovieClip. Obviously I could use SimpleButton, but the situation is that I have some enemies that are obviously MovieClips, and when I select an ability to use I want the mouse to show as a pointer when I roll over them.

I assumed this would work:

var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

mc.graphics.beginFill(0);
mc.graphics.drawRect(0,0,50,50);
mc.graphics.endFill();

mc.useHandCursor = true; // <---- doesn't work?

addChild(mc);

mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, _click);
function _click(e:MouseEvent):void
{
    trace('a');
}

There are workarounds such as adding a button into the enemy MovieClip and then removing it. Just seems there's an inbuilt way I'm missing.

Thanks.

score 30 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 24 '11 at 05:47

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I think it's mc.buttonMode = true;

edited Jun 24 '11 at 05:47

Marty

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answered May 09 '11 at 01:04

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This helped. `useHandCursor` is actionscript 2.0 it seems – Leeish Jan 15 '14 at 04:33

score 17 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 26 '14 at 09:22

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Sometimes you will need to use also :

mc.mouseChildren=false;

To have handcursor over some movieclips, like movieclip with a textfield inside. -

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answered May 09 '11 at 11:34

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if you have mc with textfield (for example menu item), cursor will not be a pointer over textfield (flash bug or something?), so in this case it is a good idea. – Bartek May 10 '11 at 06:24
i think it isn't a bug, i think it's deliberate. (which doesn't mean either is a good or a bad thing, but it's food for thought :) ) – Timothy Groote May 10 '11 at 08:40
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Good call on mouseChildren=false, it fixed my problem – Boundless Mar 22 '12 at 14:06
Use static texts inside buttons. So the cursor will not change. – Onur Eren Elibol Apr 19 '13 at 10:22

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 12 '11 at 11:57

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mc.buttonMode = true; You can use this,

this will works.

edited Aug 12 '11 at 11:57

answered May 09 '11 at 11:14

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Hand Cursor when rolling over MovieClips in AS3

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