Lingo in a Nutshell

Custom Cursor Xtra

Tip

To create a Custom Cursor asset, use Insert ➤Media Element ➤Cursor, not File ➤Import.

Table B-8 lists the Xtras you’ll need for authoring and distribution of Director movies using Custom Cursors (Windows 3.1 and 68K are not supported). See Chapter 14, Graphical User Interface Components, of Director in a Nutshell for details on using the Xtra.

Table B-8. Custom Cursor Xtra

Projectors	Xtra Name
Power Macintosh Authoring	CurOptPPC
Power Macintosh Distribution (Projectors or Shockwave)	CursorPPC
Windows 32-bit Authoring	CurOpt.x32
Windows 32-bit Distribution (Projectors or Shockwave)	Cursor.x32

Table B-9 shows sprite and castmember properties for Custom Cursors. It is implicit that each property takes the form:

the property of member cursorMember

Custom cursors don’t have sprite properties (they should never be used as sprites). Instead custom cursors are used to set the cursor of sprite property of other sprites:

set the cursor of sprite whichSprite = [member cursorMember]

or to set the sustem cursor:

cursor [member cursorMember]

For details, see the HTML documentation installed along with the Custom Cursor Xtra.

Table B-9. Custom Cursor Xtra Properties

Command	Value	Read-Only	Member
[a]
[b]
automask	TRUE | FALSE		•
castMemberList [a]	list of member references		•
cursorSize [b]	16 | 32	•	•
hotSpot [b]	point (x, y)		•
interval [a]	milliseconds (default is 100)		•
type	#cursor		•
[a] 1 Use the same cast member more than once within an animated ...