This is a little niggling problem that I find myself rediscovering every now and then when working with dynamic text – particularly dynamic text as part of an interface. When you have a movieclip with buttonMode set to true, you expect the cursor to change to a pointing hand whenever it is over any part of the movieclip, as in this example:
Mousing over the button gives you a hand cursor, updates the button to it’s ‘over’ state, and changes the text at the top, all as expected. The problems arise when using a dynamic text field to label the button, like this:
Mousing over the button still changes it’s state and alters the text, and to a certain extent changes the cursor. However, when you move the cursor over the text field it goes back to a regular arrow, despite the fact that flash can clearly tell it’s still over the button, as evidenced by the ‘over’ state of the button, and the top text field.