Re: FLASH: Follow users mouse

[John Dowdell]

At 10:19 AM 3/1/99, Joel Sawyer wrote:

> I want to know how to tell a symbol to follow the users mouse pointer.

> similar to how the rulers tell you where your pointer is in Freehand or

> Fireworks. I've seen it done before, but don't know where to start.


Flash doesn't really have draggable sprites like that. One way I've seen

people give the illusion of such a thing is to have many instances of a

button on the screen, where the graphic appears when the mouse is over the

hit zone. This isn't as fluid as as actually having a single graphic follow

the mouse, but it's a way to achieve similar goals entirely in Flash today.


(People routinely use custom cursors or follow-the-mouse graphics in

Shockwave, if the design absolutely requires this feature.)


jd





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