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    #1

    rollover effects, cursor changes to hand

    Seemingly simple question:
    Need: mouse cursor to change to standard "hand" icon when end user does a "mouse-over/fly-over/roll-over" (whatever a5 is calling it?) over a button hot-spot in a form to give user additional visual cue that it is "clickable".
    Please advise. Could not find it in the help file, message posts, or A5 Made Easy v9 by Susan Bush.
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    #2
    Re: rollover effects, cursor changes to hand

    Isn't that the default behavior for every hotspot object?

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      #3
      Re: rollover effects, cursor changes to hand

      Tom,
      Thanks for your reply. If it is the default, my defaults must be different.
      I have a button on the form. In form view mode when I "mouse over" the button the cursor stays as an arrow (my windows default cursor is an arrow) but the button background changes to a darker shade indicating (seemingly) that it is a hot spot.
      When I go to edit view of the form and right mouse click the button and go to properties, my choices are setup, alignment, border, font, dimensions and help entry.
      With the setup choice, my button choices include fly-over effects (checked) and I can "set fly-over appearance". Those choices are align, border, fill, font, object (tab stop, whatever that is), and shadow.
      Unfortunately, nothing to choose for cursor action that I can find.
      I'm thinking maybe I need to insert a script?
      Please help this confused newbie. Thanks

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        #4
        Re: rollover effects, cursor changes to hand

        In Alpha Five a button object and a hotspot object are two different things. Drop the hotspot object into your layout instead of a button.

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          #5
          Re: rollover effects, cursor changes to hand

          Tom,
          So I guess the short answer is if you want the hand cursor change effect, use the hot spot because that is its default value.
          Long answer I am guessing is "it's doable but complicated, yada, yada, yada".
          Next question then:
          with a hotspot (which is "invisible/transparent"), how can I anchor it to a visible object.
          For example, a phrase on the form may be "click here for this function". If I put the hot spot "behind" the phrase obviously if the user clicks that area it will work. But if in my editing process I move that text accidentally or intentionally the hot spot must also be moved.
          What can I do to lock those 2 together?
          Thanks again.
          Last edited by dlazenby; 09-12-2009, 09:18 AM. Reason: make long answer long

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            #6
            Re: rollover effects, cursor changes to hand

            answer to part 2, anchoring text to hot spot = "group them".
            Not thinking too well, needed that extra cup of coffee.

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              Re: rollover effects, cursor changes to hand

              Doug,
              Long answer I am guessing is "it's doable but complicated, yada, yada, yada".
              Complicated only if you had to figure it out! If you want to change the cursor you can use API calls. I believe I had placed this or similar into the Code Archive forum, most likely in conjunction with one of Marcel Kollenaar's contributions---regardless, Marcel is the mind behind any API calls I use or create! :)

              Here is a simple one that should do as you want. Modify to fit your circumstances.

              Code:
              declare user32 GetCursor L
declare user32 LoadCursorA LLL
declare user32 SetCursor LL' Display the hourglass for three seconds, then restore
' the mouse cursor to whatever it was originally.

IDC_NO=32649
Dim global holdcursor As n  ' receives handle to the original cursor
Dim global hcursor As n  ' receives handle to the hourglass (wait) cursor
Dim global retval As n  ' throw-away return value

holdcursor = GetCursor()  ' get the handle of the current mouse cursor
hcursor = LoadCursorA(0, IDC_NO)'LoadCursorA(0, IDC_NO)  
If hcursor = 0
    End  ' abort program if cursor couldn't be loaded
end if
retval = SetCursor(hcursor)  ' set the cursor to the hourglass
Sleep(3)' wait for three seconds
retval = SetCursor(holdcursor)  ' restore the original cursor
              Mike
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                #8
                Re: rollover effects, cursor changes to hand

                Mike,
                Thanks for your detailed reply. I will give it a try.

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