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October 30, 2016
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How to control the cursor style?

  • October 30, 2016
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How to precisely control the cursor style?

Most of the time, the cursor should be like an arrow.

At least three cursor styles:

1. Looks like this, I don't know how to call it.

2. Most of the time, it looks like an arrow.

3. When hovered over a hyperlink or button, it looks like a hand.

When recording software simulations, if you move the cursor from the field (as shown in the screenshot), it will look like an arrow, and when to the button "Search forums only" or link "Meet the Experts", it will look like a hand.

But after recording, when I watch the recorded simulation, the cursor already becomes a hand before I move the cursor above the Meet the Experts link. Is there a way to change it?

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    BDuckWorks
    Inspiring
    October 31, 2016
    Known Participant
    November 5, 2016

    Hi BDucksWorks, thank you very much.

    I know how to manually change the cursor style. I just want to know whether there is a way to let Captivate to automatically use the correct cursor style.

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 5, 2016

    If dealing with HTML5 output, the CpExtra widget allows you to control this using the xcmndSetCursor function:

    Mouse Related | Infosemantics Pty Ltd

    You can combine this function with @syntax or #syntax via the way you name objects in your CPTX file so that just by the way you specify their names you can automatically control which mouse cursor appears when end users mouse over them at runtime.