Help with scrolling please

Question

hey everyone,
I just figured out a way to scroll a strip of thumbnails
using left/right buttons on rollOver. it's masked so it only shows
about 3-4 pics at a time but there'e about 20 pics in the strip.
The problem is that when I get to the end of the strip on either
side, it just keeps on going and doesn't stop.
"fatController" is just an invisible MC that tells the slide
what to do.
and "masker.contentText" is just some code I haven't
converted yet (becuase it used to be a text scroll instead of
pics).
//my left button code:
on (rollOver) {
direction = -1;
_level0.fatController.gotoAndPlay(2);
on (press, release, releaseOutside, rollOut, dragOut) {
_level0.fatController.gotoAndStop(1);
//Right button code:
on (rollOver) {
direction = 1;
_level0.fatController.gotoAndPlay(2);
on (press, release, releaseOutside, rollOut, dragOut) {
_level0.fatController.gotoAndStop(1);
//and my slide code:
//frame1
stop();
//frame2
_level0.masker.contentText._x = _level0.masker.contentText._x
+ ( _level0:direction * 5);
//frame3
_level0.masker.contentText._x = _level0.masker.contentText._x
+ ( _level0:direction * 5);
gotoAndPlay (2);
any help would be so great!
B-rad

Answer 1

Move your finger around the scroll surface more quickly, do not stop turning and do not lift your finger off the surface. It's the stopping or lifting that prevents the letter coming up.
There is a skill to it, so start by simply moving around the scroll wheel as quickly as you can just to get the letters coming up. Don't try to aim for any letter or song, just get the letters appearing and then move between them. For it to show up, you have to keep turning, if you stop, the iPod regards that as a "start scrolling again" thing. Also, if you lift your finger off the surface, once again the iPod regards that as a "start again" thing.
But once the letter has appeared, you can stop turning, which will allow you to turn more slowly so that you can choose the particular letter you want, but while moving slowly between letters, keep you finger on the surface or the feature will turn off again.
Phil