Can Revolution create a large, colored cursor?

[Douglas Westbrook]

I think I used the term "graphic" incorrectly, sorry

I suggest hiding the curser and showing a image on mousewithin and 
setting the image to the mouseloc on mousemove which is not a cursor 
but gives the same effect. I used mouseleave to reverse the effect or 
to  hide the image and show the cursor. I couldn't get the "cursor" to 
work by the cursor  method ether, but hiding the cursor and using an 
image allowed me to use any size or  type image to make the image look 
as if it were the cursor. It's a work around.

This is something I did as a test when RR was first release and was 
lost several computers ago, but I'll try to recreate it.


On Mar 20, 2005, at 11:36 PM, MisterX wrote:

> Douglas,
>
> I tried a year ago to make a nice Mickey hand cursor 16x16 but
> - colored cursors didn't seem supported
> - colors didn't dispay correctly
> - transparency masks not supported on non-bitmap images.
>
> No one ever helped so Im stuck as you are...
> I think there's a bugzilla for this too...
>
> cheers
> Xavier
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
>> Douglas Westbrook
>> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 06:02
>> To: How to use Revolution
>> Subject: Re: Can Revolution create a large, colored cursor?
>>
>> Try mousewithin
>> On mousemove is a better way to set a graphic to the mouseloc
>> but it sounds like mousewithin is what you need.
>> On Mar 20, 2005, at 10:44 PM, Stgoldberg at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> As a beginner I'm really finding this forum extremely
>> helpful. Perhaps
>>> someone can help with this question:   Although the
>> instructions say
>>> that a cursor
>>> has to be in black and white and not larger than 16x16, I'm
>> wondering
>>> if there
>>> is a way around this.   Many games, for instance, have
>> large cursors,
>>> e.g. a
>>> large grasping hand when the cursor moves over an object
>> than can be
>>> grasped.
>>> I first thought that perhaps one could use a hidden image of a
>>> grasping hand that was made to appear over the location of
>> the cursor
>>> when the cursor passed over the object to be grasped, in a
>> script like
>>> this:
>>>
>>> on mouseEnter
>>> set cursor to none
>>> set lockcursor to true
>>> set the loc of image "LargeHand" to the mouseloc end mouseEnter
>>>
>>> on mouseLeave
>>> set lockcursor to false
>>> set cursor to arrow
>>> hide image "LargeHand"
>>> end mouseLeave
>>>
>>> It would seem that this should work, but it doesn't, since the
>>> "LargeHand"
>>> image for some reason keeps flickering whenever the mouse
>> moves over
>>> it.
>>> Does anyone have any suggestion   as to how to get this method to
>>> work, or
>>> another method to allow for a larger, more elaborate
>> colored cursor?
>>> Thanks.
>>> Steve Goldberg
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