How to create a custom cursor in flash

In this tutorial we will be creating a custom cursor in flash.
To start you should already have the image that you want to be your cursor ill be using this:

Now select your cursor image and press F8 and convert it to a movieclip also select the top left as your registration point.

Now select the cursor and give it an instance name of cursor

Now select the movieclip and go to the actionscript panel by pressing F9 and copy and paste the following code into it:

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
Mouse.hide();
startDrag(this,true);
}

This actionscript basically means on every frame this movieclip is on hide the mouse and drag this movieclip. you should now have something that looks like this:

And that’s it you’ve just created your own custom cursor.