cursor trouble

[raalst]

Hi all, I am trying to move a picture of a periscope over some clickable links.
The periscope picture is attached to the cursor same way as the
trailing text/pictures examples do.
Only, in the examples the stuff trailing the cursor is never under the
cursor. My periscope picture is under the cursor, and seems to obscure
the links I want to be clickable (the pericope has a transparent area in the
middle thru which the link can be seen. but it is only clickable or reacting to
mouseover if I offset the periscope picture far enough).

is there a way to pass on or re-raise events in javascript in order to
influence obscured page elements ?
Has anybody ever seen custom cursors like my periscope ?

thanks a lot for any direction in any way whatsoever or any link to
comparable web action ...

Regards,
Ronald

[PeejAvery]

You can change the cursor style to the crosshair and use that as the periscope crosshair. Other than that you can't really do anything unless you are invoking an applet. Windows controls the cursor not scripting.

[raalst]

thanks for the reply.
I now work around the problem by cutting the picture of the pericope
in four parts, leaving a hole in the middle.

the problem is not the cursor shape, but clicking thru some picture onto
underlying elements (like links).

[PeejAvery]

The only way around that is to set z-order but that will affect what you see as well. You really can't work around this problem. Basically what you need is Flash or Java.