EMBEDDING FLASH
It is possible to embed Flash 8 movies into Director 10.1 (with Flash Asset Update). This is very good news for Director since Flash can do a lot of cool stuff.
HOW TO DISPLAY FLASH CURSOR CORRECTLY
A major problem with embedded Flash movies is to show the right cursor. When the cursor is above a Flash movie Director should display one of tree cursors:
- Show an arrow when cursor is not above a button.
- Show a finger when cursor is above a button.
- Hide cursor if it is hidden by Flash movie.
To make Director show the correct cursor create a behavior containting the code below and attach the behavior to a sprite with a Flash member.
on enterFrame me pChannel = sprite(me.spriteNum) if pChannel.member.type = #flash then if integer(pChannel.Mouse.hide()) then pChannel.Mouse.show() if pChannel.hitTest(the mouseLoc) = #button then pChannel.cursor = 280 else pChannel.cursor = -1 end if else pChannel.cursor = 200 end if end if end