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ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia® Flash® 8
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ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia® Flash® 8

by Francis Cheng, Jen deHaan, Robert L. Dixon, Shimul Rahim
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1376 pages
27h 40m
English
Adobe Press
Content preview from ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia® Flash® 8

Mouse

Object
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  +-Mouse

public class Mouse
extends Object

The Mouse class is a top-level class whose properties and methods you can access without using a constructor. You can use the methods of the Mouse class to hide and show the mouse pointer (cursor) in the SWF file. The mouse pointer is visible by default, but you can hide it and implement a custom pointer that you create using a movie clip .

A Flash application can only monitor mouse events that occur within its focus. A Flash application cannot detect mouse events in another application.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 5

Property summary

Properties inherited from class Object

constructor (Object.constructor property),
 __proto__ (Object.__proto__ property), prototype (Object.prototype ...
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