The Cursor Thief

[dickythecook]

WHEN THE GUY STOPS RUNNING, MOVE THE CURSOR ABOUT AN INCH ABOVE HIS HEAD.�

http://www.selfcontrolfreak.com/pakken.html

How does he do it?

[slinky.kate]

crikey,i got a fright ?

[whiskeryron]

Dicky thats brill.

W Ron.

[cupid04]

clever!

[mike11111]

Like it!

[dickythecook]

Mate of mine sent it to me. I wish I was clever enough to do something like that. No, not run.

[albaqwerty]

I've stopped teasing him now. That is clever.

Hold the cursor outside the box and the poor guy stands there panting.
Twirl it round his head is good fun too.

[Mosaic]

very clever!

[cupid04]

Dosen't work if you wave the cursor round his lunchbox, LOL!

[TheOtherHalf]

Great link, thanks

[rojash]

"How does he do it?"
OK. First make a video of a guy runing and include a bit where he stands with his arms swinging.
Make a video of him leaping up at that spot.
Make a second video of him leaping and running towards you carrying polystyrene a mockup of a cursor. You only need the bit commencing from the top of hi leap.
Now use flash scripting tool to build a simple app that shows the first part of the video, goes into a loop when it gets to the swinging arms and waits 'til it senses the cursor at the correct position. Now show the leaping up video, (and play noise) immediately followed by the coming down and running with cursor mockup.

[roger]

No polystyrene Rojash look at the shadow on his chest - it's only of his arm

[sunny-dave]

very jolly (as JJ would doubtless say) :+)

[starone]

Is it worth all that trouble rojash? It is certainly amazing.

[rojash]

Your'e right Roger - in fact if you right-click and pause the video at the correct moment, the arm will carry on moving on its own.
That said, the process is still essentially as I described.

[pdust]

but where does your real cursor disappear to rojash?

[rojash]

You are running a flash app in your web browser. Almost all apps have the ability to turn the cursor on and off (or change it). If you quickly move your mouse off the app, your cursor will re-appear. What's more if you go into your mouse settings and change the appearance of the cursor, you'll find that moving over this app, it will change back to a standard cursor.