Create a movie clip symbol in which you add the artwork for your custom icon.

Create an instance of the movie clip symbol on the stage in the main timeline, and make sure to give it an instance name (exp 3pod.com). You should make sure the instance is on a layer that appears above all the other layers in the main timeline.

Hide the standard mouse cursor with the Mouse.hide( ) method. Assuming that you want to hide the standard arrow/hand cursor from the moment the Flash movie starts to play, place the following code on the first keyframe of the main timeline:

Mouse.hide( );

Define a function that updates the movie clip to the mouse location by assigning the values of _xmouse and _ymouse to the _x and _y properties of the movie clip:

function updateCursorLocation( ):Void {

mCustomMouseCursor._x = _xmouse;

mCustomMouseCursor._y = _ymouse;

updateAfterEvent( );

}

Instruct Flash to continuously call the function using setInterval( ). You can call setInterval( ) with two parametersa reference to the function and a number of milliseconds to use as the interval. To make the cursor move smoothly use an interval of something near 50 milliseconds:

setInterval(updateCursorLocation, 50);

In the event that you use any ActionScript code within your Flash movie in order to attach movie clips, add a line of code that tells Flash to move the cursor movie clip to a high stacking order. That step will ensure that the cursor movie clip does not accidentally get hidden beneath other instances. Use the swapDepths( ) method, and pass it a value of this.getNextHighestDepth( ):

 

	mCustomMouseCursor.swapDepths(this.getNextHighestDepth());