I need help with custom cursors

[Chris Sheffield]

Well, since no other ideas appear to be coming in, I'm wondering if  
anyone out there has any custom cursors that work that you would be  
willing to share.  I'm looking for an hourglass along with left,  
right, up and down pointing fingers (much like they had/have in the  
Myst games.  Anyone?

Thanks.


On Jul 13, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote:

> Well, I tried your suggestion, Jonathan.  Unfortunately, it didn't  
> work either.  I copied the pointer cursor over to my stack and drew  
> in my hourglass image over the top of it.  After I finished my  
> beautiful drawing, I set the cursor and the colors were still  
> inverted.  How could this happen?  Could there be a bug?  Creating  
> and using a custom cursor should not be this hard?
>
> Does anyone else have any ideas?
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Jul 13, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
>
>
>> Try this...
>>
>> 1) Pick an image used for one of Rev's prebuilt cursors.
>> (It will be in a folder labeled something like C:/program
>> files/Revolution 2.6/components/global environment - the stack is  
>> titled
>> revcursors)
>> 2) Copy it over to your stack.
>> 3) Change the image with revs image tools to suit your needs.
>> 4) Set the cursor to the id of the image when appropriate.
>>
>>
>> The revcursors stack that contains cursor images has images for  
>> both mac
>> and win (they are labeled that way) - make sure you choose an  
>> image that
>> is appropriate for your OS.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Chris
>> Sheffield
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:40 AM
>> To: How to use Revolution
>> Subject: I need help with custom cursors
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I know this subject has been brought up many times, but I can't seem
>> to get the results I want.  I'm following all the steps as outlined
>> in the docs, and I've even tried the few tricks that have been posted
>> here in the past, but all my custom cursor images are still getting
>> the colors inverted when I set them.
>>
>> So here's what I've done.  I created a three-color gif image of an
>> hourglass (using Paint Shop Pro 6):  black, white, and a sort of teal
>> color set as the transparent color.  When I import the file into my
>> stack, the image looks perfect.  But when I set the cursor to the id
>> of my image, the colors are inverted.  Like I said, I even tried
>> using Rev's drawing tools to edit the image cause that's a trick that
>> everyone is saying works, but for some reason it didn't work in this
>> case.  But what's weird is I swear I've done that in the past and it
>> has worked.  So I don't know what the difference was, except that I
>> was probably using a different version of Rev.  I'm now using 2.6
>> (build 108) on WinXP.
>>
>> If anyone has any other ideas, I would be most grateful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------
>> Chris Sheffield
>> Read Naturally
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