Comments on: Flex : How to Display Hand Cursor on Components

By: dan

dan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:37:27 +0000

set mouseChildren on components that contain children if you want mouse events to apply to the whole component and not separately for each of its children (be careful though, it will disabled their own unique events).

By: Ansury

Ansury — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:33:58 +0000

“I understand what mouseChildren means, if we set it to false, it basically stops all the mouse activities on that control and we need to do custom events for mouse actions but why I had to set it to false for Label and Text, I am not sure yet! Maybe someone can explain ?”

A component like “Text” isn’t a container and can’t have children, so I’m thinking that has something to do with it, but I’ve never looked into it myself.

By: chhabeg

chhabeg — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:27:18 +0000

thats great..

By: Timothy Jones

Timothy Jones — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:58:17 +0000

I looked at the API for this and my impression (though I have not tested this) is that the mouseChildren requirement comes from Label’s internal textField UIComponent that it uses to actually render the text. Since textField is itself a UIComponent, it would by default capture the mouse, and any mouse related parameters would have to be set on it (Label.TextField) instead. By setting mouseChildren = false, the mouse focus is not allowed to drop down to the Text Field. Anyone know?

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:05:20 +0000

This also works for when you import fl.controls.button in an Actionscript only project.
see http://joshblog.net/2008/02/10/how-to-use-the-flash-cs3-component-set-in-a-flex-builder-actionscript-project/
and
http://de-co-de.blogspot.com/2008/03/wheres-my-skin.html

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:53:10 +0000

The best you can for the ComboBox is to set buttonMode=”true” but do not set mouseChildren or else it will disable the ability to use the drop down. Setting buttonMode=”true” allows you to have a hand cursor over the down triangle but not on the option labels.

By: Anuj Gakhar

Anuj Gakhar — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:00:37 +0000

@kanu, how did you try the click events , did you add an event listener for the click events? My understanding is it should work.

By: kanu kukreja

kanu kukreja — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:29:37 +0000

its perfectly fine thing whatever you have mentioned, but problem with this is it disables the click events of text and label
do have any solution for this?

By: frank

frank — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:14:28 +0000

cool actually it turns out the shape object doesn’t support those properties so i had to use a sprite instead. thanks!

By: Anuj Gakhar

Anuj Gakhar — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:06:39 +0000

s.buttonMode = true;
s.useHandCursor = true;

something like that, given that s is your Shape object.