Once the cursor leaves the Director window, it's out of Director's control, so you can't change it from Director. You could kludge something up, though. Try creating a transparent sprite overlay almost the size of the stage--leave, say, a 1- or 2- pixel border. Then attach this behavior: on mouseLeave me cursor(-1) --or whatever end You might have to play around with the exact border size, but something like that should work. ___________________________________________________ thanks for the input Colin Holgate and Kerry Thompson (hope you found a new job) i tried a method using a global to indicate whether the mouse was in or outside of (the stage).drawrect - the global returned the correct values but still wouldn't change the cursor outside of the stage when the global indicated 'cusor outside'. Unfortunately I suspect now that you are both right as the cursor changes when rolling out of the stage really slowly so that a exitframe handler is executed while the cursor is on the line denoting the edge of the stage. 'kludging it' does work but is dependent on how fast the cursor is moving (ie if too fast it doesn't work) - surely there must be another way? thanks for the replies anyhow ray barker _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
