You can enable the hand cursor on a MovieClip by defining the following statement MovieClip.buttonMode = true; However the solution does not work in-case you have a dynamic textField in that movieclip. To enable hand in this case you have to additionally write the following statement MovieClip.mouseChildren = false; The reason is that the mouseChildren property determines whether or not the children of the object are mouse enabled. If an object is mouse enabled, a user can interact with it by using a mouse.

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Enabling Handcursor on a MovieClip having dynamic TextField in AS3

I have developed this XMLUtility class in conjunction with a CustomEvent Class which returns me the loaded XML/String Data along with the complete event firing. You can download the sources from here . Following is the code you need to write when you want to load this class //———— Import Classes import com.flexcomps.utils.CustomEvent; import com.flexcomps.utils.XMLLoaderUtil; //——– Create instance of loader class var xmlLoader:XMLLoaderUtil = new XMLLoaderUtil(); xmlLoader.addEventListener(CustomEvent.ONLOADED, onXMLLoaded); xmlLoader.load(xmlPath); //—– Method to handle the returned data private function onXMLLoaded(evt:CustomEvent) { xmlData = evt.data as XML; trace(xmlData); } Posted in Actionscript 3.0, AIR, Flash CS3, Flex, Flex Components, Xpath Tagged: As3 XML loading utility, Custom Event xml loading

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AS3 XML Loader Utility Class

As has been made clear in numerous MS blog posts, the technology boost from the MSO- XML format is to allow embedding of other XML elements without disturbance to the MSO- XML document component, not to enable other applications to render …

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