# Mouse cursor shape

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-cursor-shape/3049>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [September 19, 2001, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-cursor-shape/3049 "2001-09-19T01:29:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-cursor-shape/3049/1 "2001-09-19T01:29:14Z")

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Is there a way to supress turning the shape of the mouse cursor into a “hand” after moving the mouse cursor onto a buttom object in macromedia flash ?

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**Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-cursor-shape/3049/2 "2001-09-19T10:50:32Z")

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There are a number of ways. For a beginner, I hope you’ve had time to check out some of the tutorials which make a mouse cursor, supressing the cursor so that only the new cursor you’ve created shows up. In that case, just create a cursor which is an arrow (like the one you see all the time), make it follow the mouse, and make the regular mouse cursor invisible.

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-cursor-shape/3049/3 "2001-12-12T20:54:18Z")

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I need the default arrow cursor, i know how to create a flash cursor one but this isn’t what i need. I need to see the default windows arrow cursor when i mouse over a button. Is there a way of doing this?\rI need this for a flash projector file, to make it look as a real application.\rThanks

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**Post date:** [February 17, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-cursor-shape/3049/4 "2002-02-17T17:56:15Z")

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HI,\r\r NEED HELP TO CAHNGE THE CURSOR SHAPE \rACTULLAY I’AM PROGRAMMING IN VGA. I WANNA IS THERE ANY MOTHOD IN VGA WHICH CHANGES THE CURSOR SHAPE

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**Post date:** [February 18, 2002, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-cursor-shape/3049/5 "2002-02-18T06:27:10Z")

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VGA?? can you explain that a little better? Are you talking about VGA graphics mode?\r\rand why didn’t I reply to that first question in 2001 when it was posted, I’ll never know. Hope the guy wasnt’ sore.\r\rTo answer the first question, I’m not all that sure. I guess you’d have to draw a cursor that looked like the windows cursor to do that at all.\r\rI’ll try to post tomarrow, a method for making a custom cursor