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chriswood
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Hand cursor

Post by chriswood » Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:18 am

Now that building apps for the web are on their way, an easier method of changing the cursor to a hand when hovering over a button (or other control) would be of benefit.

A perfect solution would be to emulate Filemaker, i.e. add a tick box to the property inspector labeled "Change to hand cursor over button."

Failing that I'd suggest that the built in image library includes a more modern looking hand cursor.

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Chris

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Post by SparkOut » Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:20 pm

Not sure what you mean, whether

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set the cursor to hand
is what you're after, or whether the hand image is not the one you want to use?
You can customise the cursors. (You will need to read up about locking and unlocking the cursor too, as the cursor reverts at the end of a handler in which it is set). Scott Rossi has a demo of some very funky stack based cursors on http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/ ... rials.html and there are a few other helpful pages. If I remember where they are I will post back here.

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Post by chriswood » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:11 am

Thanks for the suggestion, that would cover the requirement and I can live with that but perhaps I may expand a little on my thinking

Since hand cursors are ubiquitous and spontaneous in html (i.e. no coding required) I thought it would be rather elegant to have a more straight forward way for rev to manage this. Incorporating this kind of behavior into ones application is one of those nice touch features that are easily overlooked by developers, and making such characteristics no brainers for programmers to use goes a long way too the appreciation and ease of use of great RAD tool.


Putting the built in property suggestion aside, Revlets are incredibly well integrated into web pages and as the existing hand cursor is a bit dated, it would be marvelous to modernize this cursor to make the user experience more transparent. I can just see people being puzzled as to why the cursors look totally different between a button on the left side of the browser and a button on the right side.

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Chris

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Post by Mark » Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:56 pm

Hi,

More cursors are available at http://economy-x-talk.com/developers.html

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Post by chriswood » Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:54 am

Many thanks Mark, I'll probably make use of those examples.

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Chris

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