User Guide

816 ActionScript classes

show (Mouse.show method)

public static show() : Number

Displays the mouse pointer in a SWF file. The pointer is visible by default.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 5

Returns

Number - An integer; either 0 or 1. If the mouse pointer was hidden before the call to

Mouse.show(), then the return value is 0. If the mouse pointer was visible before the call to

Mouse.show(), then the return value is 1.

Example

The following example attaches a custom cursor from the library when it rolls over a movie

clip called

my_mc. Give a movie clip in the Library a Linkage identifier of cursor_help_id,

and add the following ActionScript to Frame 1 of the Timeline:

my_mc.onRollOver = function() {

Mouse.hide();

this.attachMovie("cursor_help_id", "cursor_mc",

this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:this._xmouse, _y:this._ymouse});

};

my_mc.onMouseMove = function() {

this.cursor_mc._x = this._xmouse;

this.cursor_mc._y = this._ymouse;

};

my_mc.onRollOut = function() {

Mouse.show();

this.cursor_mc.removeMovieClip();

};

The MovieClip.getNextHighestDepth() method used in this example requires Flash Player

7 or later. If your SWF file includes a version 2 component, use the version 2 components

DepthManager class instead of the

MovieClip.getNextHighestDepth() method.