# Custom cursor help - breaks on different movie levels

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/custom-cursor-help-breaks-on-different-movie-levels/223214>\
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**Created:** [April 20, 2007, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/custom-cursor-help-breaks-on-different-movie-levels/223214 "2007-04-20T10:57:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![yabai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/958977/32.png) [@yabai](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/yabai)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/custom-cursor-help-breaks-on-different-movie-levels/223214/1 "2007-04-20T10:57:04Z")

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hi everybody.

i have a movie clip that contains an image used as a custom cursor. this is then called by some actionscript in the main timeline:

Mouse.hide();  
startDrag("\_root.cursor", true);

this works great. however, i have several buttons that load differnet movies into a container clip on a different movie level. eg

parties.onPress = function () {  
\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“container”, 3);  
loadMovie(“parties.swf”, “container”);  
container.\_x = 450 ;  
container.\_y = 45 ;

when this movie loads partly on top of the main movie i t breaks the cursor and i cant even see it.

does anyone know how i can keep the cursor working?  
cheers  
mark