Say good-bye to an old friend...
It's been long, very long. Instantly recognizable, a classic. And maybe a little old school at times. But we now say good bye to the button cursor in the Flash Player you have been grown accustomed to! Flash Player 8.5 will use the standard system cursor for buttons and links and adhere to system themes. Take a look, the new cursors are on the right side:
You may wonder why I write about something as mundane as this. But, I have seen a lot of content making use of the old cursor in their designs and changing this will affect the look and feel of Flash content in general. As Flash moves forward into the realm of full fledged RIAs it is important we blend into the rest of the web page as best as we can. Hence I took the lead on making this granted very simple change.
I hope you'll all go along with this.
You may wonder why I write about something as mundane as this. But, I have seen a lot of content making use of the old cursor in their designs and changing this will affect the look and feel of Flash content in general. As Flash moves forward into the realm of full fledged RIAs it is important we blend into the rest of the web page as best as we can. Hence I took the lead on making this granted very simple change.
I hope you'll all go along with this.
posted by Tinic Uro at 11:27 PM
21 Comments:
ok...
we can cope with it but...
what happens when you hide the cursor?
is it still going to work?
Nothing else will change, everything will still work as expected. You can hide the cursor as much as you want.
And please no feature requests, I know that cursor handling in Flash is stuck in the last century. :-)
Thank that big man upstairs ....everytime I saw it i cringed! :o)
doh!
just as i was reading the post, I was formulating my request for AS support for cursors, only to scroll down and see your comment!
lol
I had noticed this since I installed the beta but nobody had mentioned it. I think it's great, maybe I'm silly but I'm really happy to see the old cursor go in favour of the default system ones - the 'feel' of flash now comes across as more professional in some way. Very cool change for something so minor.
Any chance we can get system level tooltips / bubbles too? Pretty please?
"And please no feature requests"
Well there goes my comment.
=)
-erik
And here I was gonna feature request you. ;)
Good to know, though, mundane as it is.
It's great to see that corny, anatomically incorrect Windows cursor bite the dust, but on Mac I'm a little sorry to see the overblown Mickey Mouse glove make an appearance.
Yeah, the Mickey Mouse glove is not my favorite, I hope Apple will eventually replace it with something better. But it's
standard, so we go with it.
Also, most system cursors on OSX still seem to be B&W without a drop shadow. Safari (WebCore to be precise) seems to use its own version of the Mickey Mouse glove using some gray scale.
That's the way it should have been. Good to see it will be.
good choice...is very important to blend Flash appearence with operating systems... ciao tinic uro
How come our only cursor choices are 'arrow' and 'hand'? We should be able to change the actual mouse cursor to other system cursors (waiting, vertical/horizontal resize, dragging, etc)! (And I don't mean the 'hide mouse, make small cursor image follow mousex, mousey' trick...it makes the mouse feel sluggish)
I for one am gonna miss the little guy.
Now, I know that change happens, and it is inevitable really, but that little Flash cursor and I had a special thing going that's just hard to understand. When I saw it, I knew where I was, it was familiar, comfortable and reliable to the end...the very end. Now.
I have taken a screen shot of it so that future generations will know that it existed at one time. I think it would have wanted it that way.
i grew accustomed to that cursor while using netscape!
Hey Tinic, we'll never going to use the middle mouse button to open page in a new tab? man this is the worst worst, worst thing in FP , really!
> And please no feature requests, I know that cursor handling in Flash is stuck in the last century. :-)
Yes indeed, it certainly is problematic that flash offers so limited cursor control.
I've been experiencing them myself while I was working at http://www.powercursor.com where we had to do a LOT of workarounds.
I like articles like this. Thanks!
When will cometime to use custom cursors into flash movie (*.CUR - embedded in swf)?
Well done. Keep up the great work. Best regards!
I like it a lot! Nice site, I will bookmark!
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