I personally like the single cursor multiple verb style adventure games. How do I do that?
What exactly are you asking?
One way would be to simply make all the cursor graphics the same (which I think is the lucasarts way). Or do you mean one cursor mode that does everything? (Just disable all cursor but one.) Either way you might be able to find a template to help on this page (http://www.freewebs.com/skimbleshanks/templatesandmodules.htm).
Or if it's something else, be more descriptive.
What I meant was was how do you make it so you click the verb then the object/hotspot. Like in day of tentacle.
You mean the GUI? Again, follow the link I gave in the last post, or try this thread (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=22525.0). Anything you get from them is likely to need some re-writing to work under 2.71, but it's somewhere to start.
You might also want to try a forum search - and reading through the manual - for more basic GUI tutorials first.