Change mouse cursor when clicking a button - question

[wzeller]

Hello,
I have buttons in my swf files to change from one swf to others, like
on (release) {
loadMovie ("Teenies.swf", _root.contenedor);
loadMovie ("CananIntro.swf", _root.mc_video);
}

When clicking one of this buttons it take some time to load the new swf. All swf are on CD-Rom.

Question:
I is there a possibility after relase, to change the standard system mouse pointer to "hourglass mouse pointer" until the next swf has been loaded?

Thank you for any hint.
Walter Zeller

[dummwiam]

The problem is the reading time of the CD.

Maybe you should consider (if the content is not too large) to embed the SWF files (movieclips) inside the main library and call them from the same movie.

I mainly use & prefer this solution...

[SWFKit]

By setting the "Application.cursor" property, you can change the cursor at runtime. The following sample shows how to do that.

[wzeller]

Thank you for the reply.

I tried that on my computer, but after clicking "set lable" cursor is not changing to "hourglass". As a information, the file "hourglas.ani" is on my computer at c:\windows\cursors\hourglas.ani

I have attched my test at http://www.multimedia-support.eu/dru..._Hourglass.zip

Could you pls. see what the problem is?

Thank you in advance,
Walter Zeller

[SWFKit]

Yes, the cursor file is there, as the Windows system is typically installed on "C:\". However, the "windows" directory can be on other drives, for example, "d:\windows", "e:\windows". The location of the windows directory depends on where the windows system is installed. Therefore, we have to use the "Shell.getSpecialFolder" method to get the absolute path name of the windows directory.

It is weird that your sample project can work well without any change but with just the "setcursor.swf" file recreated, as shown in the attached zip file. Have you set the class path of swfkit wrapper classes properly?

[wzeller]

Hello,

unfortunatly the setcursor.swf does not show the "hourglas" cursor on my system.

Perhaps I have to set the = "swfkit wrapper classes". Could you pls. tell me where I have to make that?

Thank you in advance.
Walter Zeller

[SWFKit]

It works only if you have converted it to an exe file by using swfkit. We have tested it and it should work well.

About the class path for swfkit:

in [flash cs3 or flash 8]->[main menu]->[edit]->[preference]->[actionscript]->[actionscript 2 settings]
add the class path for swfkit, the typical path name of which is
c:\program files\swfkit pro 3\classes

for actionscript 3, the path name should be
"c:\program files\swfkit pro 3\classes 3"

Current swfkit installer cannot set the classpath for flash cs3 automatically, as it is released before flash cs3. The installer of swfkit 3.2 will fix this problem.

[wzeller]

Hello,
all works fine know.

Just one last small probelm.

I have set on the first frame of the swf which is loaded the code to change back to standard mouse cursor:

import SWFKit.*;

Application.cursor = null;

But it change only when moving the mouse.

Is there any solution changing the mouse cursor back without having moved the mouse?

Thank you in advance,
Walter

[SWFKit]

Sorry, it has been proved to be a bug. If you are using swfkit pro, we will write a ffish script function for you to call windows API to fix this problem.

[SWFKit]

Please apply the patch that can be found in the last post of the following thread
http://www.swfkit.com/forum/thread_1_1935.html