Carousel help

[yvillicana]

I tried your sample, but I couldn't get it to work---For the CarousselOne.fla are you supposed to link it to the AS file(Carousselone.as)through its main document class path?
I don't think it would help me anyway as I need a very specialized carousel...Basically, it needs to display 15 images(in the foreground on the main circular arc--don't really need any images in the background(beyond 180 degrees on the circle)) with no space between them(they would be in a container which has a graphic for their sides)and I don't want them to automatically rotate..just rotate on a click event--also, I would need some type of tooltip or just a textfield filled with the image title on the MOUSE_OVER event and for a DOUBLE_CLICK event I would want to display information about the images, in a separate MC textfield...

I'm guess your class modifies the carousel I had linked to first(the pv3d.org one)...I actually nearly finished two other carousels( http://www.webspaceinvader.com/2007/...sel-interface/) and the one lee brimelow created---The webspaceinvader one is almost completely coded--the only problem is that rotation in z-space on click as I need my images to stay in the same z-plane, which I don't really understand and have been unable to fix...Actually, it has an on enterframe loop which constantly updates the view and it also has a moveBackward call which would need to be fixed:

private function update3D():void
		{
			var target:DisplayObject3D = camera.target;
			var goPosition:DisplayObject3D = camera.extra.goPosition;
			var goTarget:DisplayObject3D = camera.extra.goTarget;

			camera.x -= (camera.x - goPosition.x) /12;
			camera.y -= (camera.y - goPosition.y) /12;
			camera.z -= (camera.z - goPosition.z) /12;

			target.x -= (target.x - goTarget.x) /12;
			target.y -= (target.y - goTarget.y) /12;
			target.z -= (target.z - goTarget.z) /12;

if all the coordinates are divided by 1 instead of 12 it more suits my needs(that is, it doesn't come forward in z-space), however it no longer performs any type of visible rotation--just jumps to the image, I have no clue as to how to fix it.

The one I am currently using is the one Lee Brimelow created--I have it all modified, but am stuck with one problem--working with the XML---

package 
{
	import com.gskinner.motion.GTween;
	import com.leebrimelow.utils.Math2;
	import com.theflashblog.fp10.SimpleZSorter;

	import fl.motion.easing.Exponential;

	import flash.display.*;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.events.MouseEvent;
	import flash.net.URLLoader;
	import flash.net.URLRequest;

	public class Carousel extends Sprite
	{
		private var container:Sprite;
		private var loader:URLLoader;
		private var anglePer:Number;
		private var mytooltip:MovieClip = new tooltip  ;

		public function Carousel()
		{
			init();
			loadXML();
		}

		private function loadXML():void
		{
			loader = new URLLoader(new URLRequest("images.xml"));
			loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, createCarousel);
		}

		private function createCarousel(e:Event):void
		{
			var xml:XML = new XML(e.target.data);
			var list:XMLList = xml.image;
			anglePer = (Math.PI*2) / list.length();

			for (var i:int=0; i<list.length(); i++)
			{
				var mytooltip= new tooltip;
				var imc:imCon = new imCon();
				imc.buttonMode = true;
				imc.alpha = .8;
				imc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
				imc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, onMOver);
				imc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, onMOut);
				imc.mouseChildren = false;
				imc.doubleClickEnabled = true;
				imc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK, onDouble);
				var l:Loader = new Loader();
				l.x = -126;
				l.y = -94;
				l.load(new URLRequest(list[i].@src));
	
				//var et:DisplayObject = l.content as MovieClip;
				var toolText:String;
				toolText = list[i]. @ tooltip;
				if(toolText !=""){
				mytooltip.tipText.text=toolText;
				}
				
				
				var info:String;
				info = list[i]. @ content;
				//trace(toolText,"tt");
				imc.addChild(l);
				imc.scaleX = .4;
				imc.scaleY = .5;
				imc.angle = (i * anglePer) - Math.PI / 2;
				if (i>8 && i<37)
				{
					
				}
				imc.x = Math.cos(imc.angle) * 550;
				imc.z = Math.sin(imc.angle) * 550;
				imc.rotationY = 360 / list.length() *  -  i;
				container.addChild(imc);
				mytooltip.x = imc.x-imc.width/2;
				mytooltip.y = imc.y - 100;
				mytooltip.alpha=0;
				imc.addChild(mytooltip);
				
				//et.addChild(mytooltip);
				
			}
		}

		private function onClick(e:MouseEvent):void
		{
			//var et:DisplayObject = e.currentTarget as DisplayObject;
			trace(e.currentTarget.name);
			//e.currentTarget.alpha=1;
			var tw:GTween = new GTween(container, 0.8, {rotationY:Math2.toDeg(e.currentTarget.angle+Math.PI/2), z:400},
			{ease:Exponential.easeInOut});
		}

		private function onDouble(e:MouseEvent):void
		{

			trace("clicked twice");

		}

		private function onMOver(e:MouseEvent):void
		{
			//trace(e.currentTarget);
			//mytooltip.tipText.text=e.currentTarget.et. @ tooltip;
			/*mytooltip.x = e.currentTarget.mouseX;
			mytooltip.y = e.currentTarget.mouseY - 25*/
			//e.currentTarget.addChild(mytooltip);
			moveTip();
			e.currentTarget.mytooltip.alpha=1;//this throws an error as I can't seem to target the imc's child 

			e.currentTarget.alpha = 1;

		}
		private function onMOut(e:MouseEvent):void
		{

			e.currentTarget.alpha = .8;

		}
		function moveTip()
		{
			/*mytooltip.x = mouseX;
			mytooltip.y = mouseY-20;*/
		}


		private function init():void
		{
			container = new Sprite();
			container.x = 450;
			container.y = 145;
			container.z = 400;
			addChild(container);

			//cover.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stageClick);
			this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
		}

		/*private function stageClick(e:MouseEvent):void
		{
		var tw:GTween = new GTween(container, 0.8, {z:400}, {ease:Exponential.easeInOut});
		}*/

		private function loop(e:Event):void
		{

			SimpleZSorter.sortClips(container);
		}
	}
}

The tooltip(mc in library with a textfield) attaches ok(as can be shown if you leave their alpha=1 in the createCarousel function) , but accessing that tooltip(which I add as a child of the imc) I cant figure out how to do...I also don't know how to return the name of the clip on the doubleclick event--I just get an instance, so I wouldnt be able to display the content(desc)XML node...
Do I need to set up an array? Or how do I go about referencing the imc children?

Thanks so much,
---Yvette