Newbie flash question...

I think I can do this, Ill try it soon. Quite tricky for someone who knows no Flash?

I think I know how to solve the problem. I haven't tested it, but I think I know.

On a movie clip, you could put an on mouse move actionscript

And then you could put your cone on _root.xmouse, _root.ymouse instead of _root._xmouse, _root._ymouse.

It's worth a try!

Would it be possible to make the arrow check that the cursor is within say 20 pixels from any edge of the clip or the arrow begins to go to it's default position? then all the user has to do is come back to within this margin and the arrow moves back to the cursor?

I've not tried this and I'm VERY new to Flash, but have been web programming in other languages for quite some years (PHP, MySQL, MSSQL, Javascript, Java, HTML).

(not trying to boast or anything as you guys may or may not have far more experience than i, just saying i have had some experience to give my suggestion some weight maybe... )

well i just started learning actionscript like eh... 2 days ago? but im thinking, if theres no way to catch the mous when its moving to fast with a boundry around the movie, perhaps you make a script that when the mouse doesnt move for a few seconds it will auto slide back to the middle, that way if the user dumps the mouse for like 3 seconds itll jump back to the middle....
makes any sense? im not even sure how to do that but uh yea...