Flex 101: Flexing Mouse Cursors

You probably already knew that you have the ability to customize mouse cursors in Flex. Did you also know that you can make them animated and interactive, completely with ActionScript? In this post, we will have some fun exploring techniques and playing around with mouse cursors.

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