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ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference > ActionScript classes > Button > useHandCursor (Button.useHandCursor property)

useHandCursor (Button.useHandCursor property)

A Boolean value that, when set to true (the default), indicates whether a pointing hand (hand cursor) displays when the mouse rolls over a button. If this property is set to false, the arrow pointer is used instead.

You can change the useHandCursor property at any time; the modified button immediately takes on the new cursor behavior. The useHandCursor property can be read out of a prototype object.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6

Example

Create two buttons on the Stage with the instance names myBtn1_btn and myBtn2_btn. Enter the following ActionScript in Frame 1 of the Timeline:

myBtn1_btn.useHandCursor = false;
myBtn1_btn.onRelease = buttonClick;
myBtn2_btn.onRelease = buttonClick;
function buttonClick() {
    trace(this._name);
}

When the mouse is over and clicks myBtn1_btn, there is no pointing hand. However, you see the pointing hand when the button is over and clicks myBtn2_btn.

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