# Controlling cursor orientation

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-cursor-orientation/221652
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 6, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-cursor-orientation/221652 "2007-04-06T00:25:56Z")
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### Author: ![spazzblaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@spazzblaster](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/spazzblaster)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-cursor-orientation/221652/1 "2007-04-06T00:25:56Z")

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Hi,

I’m not real swift when it comes to using actionscript and I was wondering if anyone could give me a solution or point me in the right direction!

I have a simple animation of a fly which I used to replace the cursor,

startDrag(“fly”,true);  
Mouse.hide();

and I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I might be able to have the orientation of the fly change depending on which direction the mouse was moving, so the fly would always appear to be flying forward.

I apprecieate any help!

Thanks.