I-beam cursor in flash sprites

I'm having a problem with the I-beam cursor dissapearing in
text fields in flash sprites. I'm using Director MX and flash MX. I
see that this problem is fixed in the latest version of Director,
but my client requries WinNT4 support, so I'm stuck using MX. Is
there any way I can fix this, or at least minimise it?

sussed it. i'd dimmed the screen brightness with 3rd party prog. Shades.
colour change of cursor was affected by that, turning cursor white. whack the brightness up and all becomes normal again.
hope that helps someone.

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Dir MX2004 (w/flash 8 asset/xtra update) - Flash 8
Excellent! Yes -multiple buttons (menu's) within individuals
swf's
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Michael
"Rob Dillon - Adobe Community Expert"
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> What version of Director and what version of Flash are
you working with?
>
> There is a Flash cursor behavior in the Director Library
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> for that part.
>
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> just write a behavior as if the Flash sprite was any
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>
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>
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>
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>
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> Then you can just place a behavior like this on the
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>
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>
> This might at least simplify the Flash development
process.
>
> --
> Rob
> _______
> Rob Dillon
> Adobe Community Expert
>
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>
>
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"Rob Dillon - Adobe Community Expert"
<[email protected]> ha
scritto nel messaggio
news:[email protected]..
> I'm not sure when or where you would need this
functionality. If you are
> creating a projector, then how are you distributing it?
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> a CD, then it doesn't matter how many files you have.
>
> If you want to bundle everything together for a
download, then just use
> an installer.
>
> --
> Rob
> _______
> Rob Dillon
> Adobe Community Expert
>
http://www.ddg-designs.com
> 412-243-9119
>
>
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