Mouse pointer effects, raining stars

Hey!
Sorry for my English, its not the best...
Am making a webpage for my school-theater and the story is Peter Pan! The hole site is in Flash, and I've never done this before so its alot of pressure. One detail I really want to make perfect is changing the mouse pointer into the character Tinkerbell from the movie. The little yellow girl, with stars (or glowing dust) falling off. I want the same effect on my pointer, so it rains tiny stars down. And when you move it around you can see the trail of the mouse because of the stars. Its supposed to look like she is flying around!
I know its kinds stupid and I dont got much experience in either webpages or Flash, but thought it might be cool. Is it really hard to program? Using CS4 with AC3. Thanks for the help in advance!

no, it's not hard.
you create a movieclip of tinkerbell and a movieclip of a few pixie-dust stars that fade in, fall, fade out and are removed. make the pixie-dust stars a movieclip that plays from start to finish quickly.
then use Mouse.hide() and create a loop so the tinkerbell movieclip's x,y is the same as your mouseX,mouseY. also create a mousemove listener and listener function that adds your star movieclip to the stage at mouseX,mouseY each time the mousemove listener function is called.

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Hello all.
Just read my signature first, it might explain a lot. I do not intend to compete with Darren and I don't think this "nugget" (at least it supposed to be one) will amaze any of the LV veterans and this forum is rich of them. But maybe it will bring some new ideas to some of you or maybe it will be useful for some LV beginners (like me). It is very likely, my code will have some lapses, but please be gentle pointing that out to me. If you feel a need, you can always optimize the code and develope it further. Just don't forget to share!
So back to the point.
I am developing a project using LV. In my program there is a waveform chart which has to show 4 plots. Depending on the length of the X Scale, it sometimes gets hard to see the plots clearly because of their density.So I decided that I need a tool, which would zoom the chart in. And this is what I have came up with after a few "Google" searches to check which part of the bike is already invented and also a bit of programming by myself.
Maybe you guys (at least the veterans) know the BetterVIEW Consulting LV example where they have implemented the Mouse Over effect. So a part of their example has been used in this tool and part of the credit must go to them. I thank them a lot
This tool uses a cluster and its property of visibility to show/hide the cluster depending on if the current position of the mouse cursor is in the desired range or not. The program also gets the image of the chart and returns the subset of the image. The subset is taken for the area arounf the mouse cursor. So if you move the mouse, the zoomed in area will also chage in response. After that, the subset of the image is zoomed in for better view.
The user might chage the zoom factor during the execution. Also it is possible to turn the zoom option On or Off if you don't wish to see it for the moment.
This is how the front panel looks like:
And this is the image of the block diagram (see the attached files for the vi, the VI Snippet tool distorts the code too much, so I haven't added it):
I haven't found anything the same in the forum. Yet I'm a newbie here and I don't have that much experience surfing it. If it wouldn't be something new (in the forum, not necessarily to some of you personally), just ignore the thread. I hope this was worth your time and your attention.
Good coding
Message Edited by Giedrius.S on 02-11-2010 12:46 PM
While evaluating my code please have in mind that I am a LV novice. Therefore sometimes my code might violate some coding rules that I have to learn about myself. But how else could I do that...
Chart zoom with "Mouse Over" effect
Attachments:
Zoom.vi ‏198 KB
Mouse_pos.vi ‏20 KB
Check_pos.vi ‏18 KB

Very nice Giedrius.
It takes guts to "step up to the chalk board" so I will do what i can to give you some ideas to think about. This is similar to the type of feedback I offer durring our in-house code reviews.
1) The floating property nodes outside the loop are not sequenced by wires so they could execute after the loop starts. Sometimes this could cause weird errors. Seq with the error cluster.
2) Property nodes can be re-sized so you can apply more than one property setting in the same call. Property node have to execute in the UI thread (which is single threaded) so using a single nodes will force a single context switch rather than one for each.
3) Setting the same property repeatedly in a loop just burns CPU. THe Scale min for both X an Y can be moved outside the loop ?
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5)An Event Struture to monitor mouse enter/leave and mouse move (this would have to be a sepearte loop) is easier on the CPU than polling.
6) Is that math in the case to handle the Chart position on the FP? If so then using the property nodes for the chart to find its postion will let you code adapt to GUI changes.
7) Right to left wires are not well recieved.
8) A Bundle by Name is prefered over a "Bundle" since it is self documenting. I know the Picture function so I can see that is the rectangle you are specifying but reader not famliar with that function would not be able to "READ" the code without poking at it.
9) THe event structure would also help with setting the Zoom factor. Only poke it when you have to.
That is all that comes to mind at the moment.
Again thank you!
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Hi Lsaacw,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per the query we understood that you are facing an issue with No Boot to Windows 8 on your ThinkPad S230u.
Please check if the system is able to boot to ‘safe mode’.
Please click here to know the procedure on how to boot the system into ‘safe mode’.
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Dear all.
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Please read this whole message before doing anything.
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Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
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Hi,
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The subject is discussed (not very clearly) here:
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