Change mouse to hand cursor when mouse hovered over hotspot

G'day fellow Storyliners!

An easier way to achieve the same result is to simply create a 'hover' and 'down' state for the image that you want the pointer to change on (i.e. from an arrow to a pointing hand). No triggers or hotspots are required - well, unless you want to add these for additional functionality.

Cheers

Jim

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Hi Yulstar,

I don't know the answer, but would like to, and so am subscribing to this post. Thanks for asking.

Hi Yulstar - Welcome to E-learning Heroes!

The default behavior for hotspots is to show hand cursor on hover. It's possible to disable the cursor change which I think might have happened.

If you right click the hotspot, you'll see an option to show the hand cursor. Is it currently selected in your hotspot?

Hotspots don't allow hover states (currently) so maybe you're working with a shape that looks like a hotspot? Here's some good info on how hotspots work and how you can modify the cursor option. 

David, I think he's saying the hover state is working for him (and it is for me) if the Hot Spot is assigned to the default "User Clicks" action in the Trigger Wizard.

But if he switches the action to "mouse hover", the mouse is no longer a hand, but the standard pointer.

At least this is how I"m interpreting the question.

Thanks, Becky. Totally see what you guys are talking about.

This was a UX decision that came out during the beta. The reasoning is that hand cursor implies a clickable link while simple rollovers that show/hide info are not the same. Changing the cursor could imply the link is hot but not working. So, this is as designed.

You'll notice the same behavior occurs with buttons and shapes using the same types of triggers. 

Thanks Rebecca for helping to clarify my question. That is exactly what I mean.

Thanks David for the info. Actually the behavior are different between hotspot and buttons.

For buttons, the mouse pointer is always in hand cursor state, no matter you assign "on click" or "on mouse hover" trigger.

And it doesn't have the option "show hand cursor on hover" when you right click on it. 

So, there is no way to trick  the mouse cursor change to "hand cursor" is we use hotspot and assign a mouse hover to it.

Regards,

YL

Hi Yulstar - That's right if the button has a Down state. I'm sorry I didn't include that in my original post. I assumed you were only working with hover states.

Delete the button's down state and you'll see that the hand cursor won't change either. Since hotspots can't have states, you'll never get the hand cursor.

If you need the hand cursor, you could create a fake hotspot button but creating a shape with a down state and make both states 100% transparent. That should give you the hand cursor when you mouse over the object.

Thanks a lot David. The fake hotspot button will solve the problem.

Really appreciate for your help.

Cheers.

Yulstar

Is there a way to show the hand cursor for the "User clicks outside" trigger option?