TextField Hand Cursor Issues

Here is a little issue I ran into the other day and couldn’t figure it out for about an hour. I was creating a TextField and putting the textfield into a movie clip so I could add listeners to it. So after I put the listeners on the movieClip I still couldn’t get the hand to appear when you moused over it. I even tried the

buttonMode = true;
useHandCursor = true;

Neither one of those worked and it drove me crazy.

Well after some google searching and some playing around I realized that I needed to put

mouseEnabled = false;

on the textField. I never would have thought that you have to actually put that on the textField, but heck it works.

So if you can’t get the hand cursor to show up, try setting mouseEnabled = false on the textField. I hope this helps and saves you time.