Using An Animated Color Cursor In A Movie - Adobe 65036570 - Director - PC User Manual

You can also enter a cast member number in the Member box and press Tab. Then Director selects the cast
member that has that number or the cast member with the number closest to it.
Select the cast member you want, and click Add.
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The Frame X Of Y text box shows where the cast member falls within an animated series of cursor frames.
Repeat steps 2 through 4 until you have added all the cast members for the cursor.
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In the Cursor Frames area, use the < and > buttons to review the order of the cursor frames. Click the Remove
button to delete the currently selected frame from the cursor. Doing this deletes the cast member only from the
cursor animation, not from the cast.
In the Interval text box, specify the number of milliseconds that elapse between each frame of the cursor
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animation.
This interval affects all frames of the cursor and cannot vary for different frames. The cursor frame rate is
independent of the frame rate that is set for the movie by using the tempo channel or the
Note: By inserting the same bitmap in multiple frames of the cursor, you can create the illusion of variable-rate
cursor animation.
7 In the Hotspot Position text boxes, specify the location of the mouse pointer's active point.
Director uses this point to track the mouse pointer's position on the screen. For example, Director uses this
point's location when it returns values for the
point where a rollover occurs.
The first text box specifies the horizontal (x) location, and the second text box specifies the vertical (y) location.
The upper-left pixel is location 0,0. In a 16 x 16 pixel cursor, the lower-right pixel is location 15,15. You can't enter
a point that is beyond the bounds of the cursor.
Click one of the Size options to specify the maximum size of the cursor.
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If a Size option is dimmed, your computer does not allow you to create cursors of that size.
Select the Automask option if you want the white pixels of the cursor frames to be transparent.
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Note: The Automask option makes all white pixels transparent. If you want some white pixels to be opaque, you can't
use white for those pixels, but you can achieve the same effect by using the lightest shade of gray available in the
system palette.
10 Click OK to close the Cursor Properties Editor.
After you create a cursor cast member, use script to switch to the cursor in a movie. See
cursor in a movie.

Using an animated color cursor in a movie

After you add an animated color cursor to the cast, use script to switch to the animated cursor as you would any other
cursor. You can set up an animated cursor as the movie's cursor or a sprite's cursor.
To switch to an animated color cursor, use the following method:
cursor (member whichCursorCastMember)
and properties. The hotspot also determines the
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