Custom mouse icons

I would like to import a different image for a mouse icon on
several slides. I would like to create the image of a bar scanner
moving so that the scanner can "read" the code in the lesson I am
creating. I have Captivate 2, we will be upgrading to Cap 3 in a
few months.

Hi pk7162 and welcome to the Captivate community!
Captivate only supports custom cursors in Windows .CUR
format, which I believe are limited in size (I want to say 16x16
pixels). If you have or can find software that creates .CUR files,
you should be able to import them into Captivate.
Since that seems awful specialized, you may need to think
outside the box.
If you have Flash experience, you might create a moving
scanner animation in Flash and insert that into Captivate. Or,
possibly create the scanner as a GIF file with a transparency color
and then use the timeline to move copies of that image across the
bar code on your background?

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