Re: FLASH: load movie > mouse state

[John Croteau]

Hi Clyde,


> A really simple question - how do I load an animated movie from within

> another MC, without the mouse changing into a "hand"?

Flash normally provides a hand to indicate that a button is present.


In some movies you can make it so that the hand never appears by

creating a loop that switches between two buttons in such a manner that

Flash switches frames before Flash has had time to send the computer the

message to display a hand. In the next frame Flash starts over again and

finds there is a button again, but before it can send the message to

display a hand it switches frames again and the process starts over.


This effect is not guaranteed to work in all computers and depends on

many factors. Duplicating the code and placing it in another movie may

not work because this is not a feature of Flash but a trick that depends

on the order and timing of how Flash processes commands and is not a

feature but a trick that depends on many factors.


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