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March 18, 2008
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Cursor Shapes

  • March 18, 2008
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Hi All

30 degrees C, no wind and the sea is smiling, gotta love South Africa. Anyhoo, as Yoda is fond of saying, I have another insane client who requires that anyone using the training sim that I am building does not see a mouse, but wants the corporate logo as the cursor (a parrot, so the shape is conducive to pointing). I have the image, but can someone PLEASE help me and let me know how to do this, if at all possible??

Thanks a stack in advance.

Andrew
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    Captiv8r
    Legend
    March 18, 2008
    Hi Andrew

    Greetings from Portland, Oregon, where things are soggy and cold. Ah, well. At least it's nice inside the hotel where the WritersUA conference is occurring and I just get to be an Adobe booth bunny.

    Long time no see. Nice seeing you around.

    Have you tried creating such an image as an available .CUR file such as you might find here.

    I'm thinking that as long as you can coax it to exist in that file type, you might be able to choose it as the cursor for Captivate.

    Cheers... Rick
    Known Participant
    March 25, 2008
    Andrew,

    Ricks right. You can create a custom cursor by using certain programs that automate the process of turning an image into a cursor file (.CUR). A program I have used successfully is called Cursor Maker and can be found: http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-maker here">here

    It will even allow you to specify which parts of the cursor do the pointing, if that makes sense. I think it would be perfect for your needs. Be warned though, my experience with Captivate and custom cursors is that once you have created it properly and try to use it, Captivate places a rather annoying illuminous green border round it for some reason. Very strange because it works when you use the custom cursor as the default for windows ... I think this has been documented in the forums already ,,,

    On a last note, after creating your cursor, a simple way to use it in Captivate is just to copy the actual file from wherever its saved, double click on the mouse in a project, choose browse and then just paste it in. The default cursor directory in Captivate is the Windows one, i.e. c:\Windows\Cursors

    Hope this helps also,

    Cheers,
    Alex.
    jojolinaAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 26, 2008
    HI All

    Big thanks to Rick and Alex. Great help guys!!

    Andrew