Using Virtual Reality Concepts - Flash 3D: Animation, Interactivity, and Games - page 295

Rather than having separate clips for the arrows, let's create a single movie clip to house
them. Choose Insert > New Symbol. Create a movie clip named cursorMC with three
frames as shown in Figure 8.14.

Figure 8.14 Creating a cursor movie clip

In frame 1, drag leftArrowMC from the Library onto the Stage and center it.
In frame 2, drag noMoveMC from the Library onto the Stage and center it.
In frame 3, drag rightArrowMC from the Library onto the Stage and center it.

In the cursors layer of Scene 1, drag the cursorMC clip anywhere onto the Stage
and name its instance cursor_mc .

Let's hide the cursor whenever the user enters the panorama and show it when the
user leaves the panorama. Add the lines shown below.

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// define the panorama actions
pano_mc.onRollOver = function() { Mouse.hide(); }
pano_mc.onRollOut = function() { Mouse.show(); }

pano_mc.onEnterFrame = function()
{

Step 14: Update the checkTheMouse handler

With the new cursor_mc clip, we can make some refinements in our script. The first
thing we need to do is to set the coordinates of the cursor_mc to the coordinates of
the cursor. That will guarantee that the arrows will track like the mouse.