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> I’ve figured out a hack that sort-of gets me there – by configuring a
> debug profile in flex builder with “about:blank” as the launch URL, I
> can hit F11 in flexbuilder, click “Debug”, close the about:blank window
> in Firefox, switch back to the running SWF, rightclick, choose
> “Debugger” and click “Connect”. But it would be much better if one could
> avoid having to do the whole F11-about:blank-closetab dance, and just
> click “Debugger->Connect” and go.
>
> For what it’s worth, this is on Linux with Firefox 3.
>
> – Frode

Thanks Frode, nice tip. You’re right, it should be an option that is much easier to do though.

<mx:Canvas width="176" height="87">
<mx:Link height="100%" width="100%" />
<mx:Image width="100%" height="100%"
source="@Embed(''images/logo.swf'')"
mouseDown="doThis()" />
</mx:Canvas>

They obviously wanted to call an event handler when someone clicked on the image, but because they couldn”t get useHandCursor to work, they used an alternative method, albeit not all that pretty.

The solution is rather simple though. Just add a mouseOver event to the component and set it to the following:

mouseOver="event.target.onRelease=null;
event.target.useHandCursor=true;"

Works pretty much anywhere.

UPDATED For Flex 2:

You may have noticed that the above does not work in Flex 2. This process has been replaced. It is now done through a set of properties that are inherited from the Sprite class.

useHandCursor="true"
buttonMode="true

Add these properties to your component and you”re all set. Now, that was easy!