# Hand cursor? **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [June 3, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158 "2008-06-03T20:08:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rondog](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/rondog/32/2478_2.png) [@rondog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rondog)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158/1 "2008-06-03T20:08:27Z")
```auto mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,tween); function tween(event:MouseEvent):void { trace("clicked"); } ``` it works but why is the hand cursor off? ---
**Author:** ![rondog](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/rondog/32/2478_2.png) [@rondog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rondog)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158/2 "2008-06-03T20:19:03Z")
I found buttonMode has to be set to true as well as useHandCursor…uhh shouldnt this be default for a button? I dont want to have to do that for everything with a CLICK event. How can I get around that? ---
**Author:** ![Fidodo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/779978/32.png) [@Fidodo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Fidodo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158/3 "2008-06-03T20:25:51Z")
Is it a button? You don’t say what mc is declared as but I’m assuming you declared it as a MovieClip (thus the name mc). Try declaring it as a Button class and see if that works. ---
**Author:** ![Digitalosophy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalosophy/32/1114_2.png) [@Digitalosophy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Digitalosophy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158/4 "2008-06-03T20:42:31Z")
I think you converted it into a movie clip and not a button. ---
**Author:** ![Anogar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Anogar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Anogar)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158/5 "2008-06-03T21:03:17Z")
Eew, don’t use buttons, just declare [FONT=“Courier New”]buttonMode [/FONT]to [FONT=“Courier New”]true[/FONT]. ---
**Author:** ![snickelfritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@snickelfritz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/snickelfritz)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158/6 "2008-06-03T21:29:42Z")
i have question along these lines: How could I create and apply a custom external class that enables hand cursor for movieclips? Seems like this should be possible. ---
**Author:** ![rondog](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/rondog/32/2478_2.png) [@rondog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rondog)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158/7 "2008-06-03T21:51:09Z")
Yes it is a movie clip. I never made buttons by selecting button. I always made movie clips. Setting button mode to true seems like an extra line of code I am going to have to do for it to act like a button. Seems like this should have been something default… ---
**Author:** ![Anogar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Anogar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Anogar)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158/8 "2008-06-03T22:29:01Z")
You really don’t need to create a custom external class, the ‘buttonMode’ property already exists, Snickelfritz. Mrwicked, although it’s an extra line of code, by default you don’t want all objects to be buttons. ---
**Author:** ![rondog](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/rondog/32/2478_2.png) [@rondog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rondog)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158/9 "2008-06-03T22:53:35Z")
pretty much anything I have ever set to click(or onRelease) I would have wanted it to have a hand cursor…oh well though i’ll live with it ---
**Author:** ![Anogar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Anogar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Anogar)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158/10 "2008-06-03T22:55:53Z")
Right, but there are typically far more clips that aren’t clickable - your background image, your borders, your text, that sort of thing. All the content. ---
**Author:** ![rondog](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/rondog/32/2478_2.png) [@rondog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rondog)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158/11 "2008-06-03T23:09:29Z")
I understand that more clips aren’t clickable, but what would you be doing setting your background image or border to a click event in the first place? I guess it really doesn’t matter. It all depends on what the project is you are working on. ---
**Author:** ![Fidodo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/779978/32.png) [@Fidodo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Fidodo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hand-cursor/262158/12 "2008-06-03T23:15:28Z")
Well, anyways, if you want to create a button in ActionScript use the SimpleButton Class. I don’t like the button when used on the stage, but as a display class I don’t see anything wrong with it. It just extends DisplayObject, which makes it pretty simple. So here’s the code to display a button on screen. ```auto package { import flash.display.SimpleButton; import flash.display.Sprite; public class Test extends Sprite { public function Test() { var button:SimpleButton = new SimpleButton(); var sprite:Sprite = new Sprite(); sprite.graphics.beginFill(0); sprite.graphics.drawCircle(300,200,50); sprite.graphics.endFill(); button.upState = sprite; button.downState = sprite; button.overState = sprite; button.hitTestState = sprite; addChild(button); } } } ```