This is fantastic, and thank you for sharing the source.

I’ve been playing around with the carousel and coverflow containers.
I have added some script to loop from an array, pulling in images locally to display within the carousel. I’m stuck on a few points though, if anyone can help me..?

The images I need to load in are all stored within the root folder. When the script runs, the ‘image.source = e.currentTarget.content;’ line only seems to append one image to the last panel. I am outputting the actual items from the array onto the panel as a label, and the links take the user through to the correct video, I just can’t seem to get the right image to load onto the correct panel, and it’s driving me nuts.

Also, can it be adapted to work without the panels, and just show the images, as you have in your iTunes examples..?

The code is below:

var arr:Array = [”PMDMMfrDUBI”, “KiR838VOCrA”, “DbC2iMFMcuk”];
totalItems = arr.length;

// Use a regular for in loop to access the properties in arr
for each ( var s:String in arr ) {

thisItem = thisItem + 1;

// create a new panel
var thisPanel:Panel = new Panel();
thisPanel.width = 200;
thisPanel.height = 200;

var thisID:String = ‘_img’ + thisItem;

// create a new image
var image:Image = new Image();
image.name = thisID;
image.id = thisID;

//image.source = imgClass;

// create a new label
var imageLabel:Label = new Label;
imageLabel.text = s + thisID;
imageLabel.id = s;
imageLabel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(e:Event):void
{
var vidID:String = e.currentTarget.id;
var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest(”http://localhost/youtubeDownloader-debug/index.cfm?video=” + vidID);
navigateToURL(url, “_blank”);
});

// add the image and label to the new panel
thisPanel.addChild(image);
thisPanel.addChild(imageLabel);

// add the panel to the coverflow container
coverflow.addChild(thisPanel);

//source code of the second way
_loader = new Loader();

//notice: NOT _loader.addEventListener,is _loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener
_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,function(e:Event):void
{
image.source = e.currentTarget.content;

});

_loader.load(new URLRequest(encodeURI(s + “.jpg”)));

// end of loop
}

If anyone can help me, I would be eternally grateful.

Many thanks,

Matt

Joe, i think you hit the right point with: “But I’d hate to see someone (me for instance) waste a lot of hours trying to make this work in a real project only to find himself back at the drawing board with an angry client on the phone.”

what you call a component - not matter if it’s free or not - should be a REALLY flexible piece of code. i’ve already had dozens of such deceptions and finally rebuilt nearly any component myself at the end - nothing funny when your customer already saw your simple coverflow demo. the same will most probably happen here as well…

anyway, what about a strategy for “many” childs. i mean 3, 5, 7 or in some case 9 childs are realistic, but more child don’t run properly. this is not what i call flexible, it’s actually a demonstration tool - not enough to call it a “component”.

it is currently a huge stress to add any kind of dynamic behavior, you obviously never tried it. the problem is very simple: everything is based on the child-index. but the child indicees change as soon as you remove or add a child at index 0, the selectedIndex changes after these operations. it should be based on a dataprovider IMO.

and in any way, the current memory leaks (=missing support for removeChild) makes any dynamic behavior nearly impossible.

I guess this makes me one of the whiners. But I’d hate to see someone (me for instance) waste a lot of hours trying to make this work in a real project only to find himself back at the drawing board with an angry client on the phone. The examples on this page use the component to display album covers. (I hope you have narrow musical tastes, like no more than fifteen albums.)

I made some changes with what I was doing on it and the scrollbar disables itself if I pass maxPosition=”{coverflow.numChildren - 1}”

If I pass it just a static number it works fine. Any ideas?