mouse cursor when rolling over a shape

Hi Claire and welcome to Heroes! 

I assume you've created the shape as a hotspot or button associated with it? If you right click on the hotspot you should see an option to "show hand cursor" which you can disable. 

Let us know if you need anything else! 

This sounds similar to my situation but I'm using invisible shapes to control navigation on an image of software. I do this to facilitate branching to various different slides based on which "button" the learner chooses. I would like to more closely mimic how the software works by keeping the pointer the entire time rather than the hand. Is there a way to do that with triggers that are based on invisible shapes and not hotspots or buttons?

I tried using the above suggestion but there is no option on my shape for showing the hand cursor. Also, I've created a test hotspot slide to play with this and regardless of whether the hand cursor option is selected, it still shows in the preview. (FYI I'm using a trial of Storyline 2)

Hi Jeremy

Can you use the Insert > Mouse options to add the cursor to the screen and then use the format options and triggers to achieve what you need?

Hi, Jeremy - 

I see that Wendy has a suggestion for you to try! Please feel free to let us know if you are all set, or if you need additional assistance. :)

Thanks for the suggestion Wendy but I'm trying to create a practice scenario where the learner has to click in the right place to move on. The cursor works great for the demonstration but I want them to try to click in the right places with less guidance, so I wanted to avoid having the cursor (that the user is moving) changing from pointer to hand and back as that would make it too easy.

But I have discovered that the hotspot idea above works well when I am not using it on a quiz slide.  For some reason, I had it in my head that hotspots were only for quizzes so I had avoided using them. Instead, I had built that same functionality into a transparent shape using a trigger. Changing those out for hotspots using Insert --> Controls --> Hotspots seems to work great. I guess I just misunderstood what Ashley was saying.

No problem Jeremy - glad you got it sorted.

Thanks Jeremy for the update and glad you were able to get a method set up that works for you. 

Thanks for sharing what you discovered, Jeremy! :)