# Hide Inactive Mouse?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hide-inactive-mouse/284435>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 19, 2009, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hide-inactive-mouse/284435 "2009-03-19T07:10:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![thegrrraue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@thegrrraue](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thegrrraue)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hide-inactive-mouse/284435/1 "2009-03-19T07:10:23Z")

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So I’ve seen this everywhere, but I can’t seem to find the code to do it anywhere.

How do you make a mouse hide after it’s been inactive (say for 3 seconds), then appear again once it’s active? I know _Mouse_._hide_(); but I don’t know how to check for mouse activity to tell it to run that code, or to tell it to show it again once it’s moved.