Scrolling Thumbnails Speed

Hi all,
I recently made a scrollong thumbnail gallery using a
tutorial from Kirupa.com
(Link).
I was wondering if there is a way to change the scrolling speed of
the thumbnails as the position of the mouse changes. That is, if
the cursor is a little to the right it scrolls the images at slow
speed. If it is further to the right, it scrolls at a faster rate.
Even further to the right, the speed increases again (this goes for
the left side as well). If the cursor is at the centre, the
thumbnails don't move at all.
I don't need infinitely variable speeds, depending on the
cursor position (although that would be OK if it's easier to write
that way). I just want to divide the thumbnail bar into 7 areas,
with the centre as stop, 3 speeds to the left, and 3 speeds to the
right.
Please help a newbie out!
Thank you in advance,
-Tets T.

try mouse listener that you can get the _xmouse and _ymouse,
then you get the position of where your cursor is.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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<photo thumbs="thumbnails/i_blonde_fairy.jpg" urls="images/blonde_fairy.jpg" />
<photo thumbs="thumbnails/i_flower_fairy.jpg" urls="images/flower_fairy.jpg" />
<photo thumbs="thumbnails/i_red_fairy.jpg" urls="images/red-fairy.jpg" />
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Attached is a link to the file I made named "index".
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/706233226/5e7b4fe0973dacf090b5cbae32c47398
I would have liked to have included the following files but was limited due to "you-send-it" not uploading folders. Files not included: [but functioning] : xml list - images [folder] - thumbnails [folder]
Again, Thank you
Dalen

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Do you have a lot of pixelation with your thumbs??? If so, then I know it isn't just me. Perhaps Apple is running their Aperture program on the VTech supercomputer?? I heard it was dismantled. Maybe they will loan it to me so I can put all my photos in Aperture and be rid of the Beach Ball once and for all.
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Is it possible to have only one row of thumbnails at the bottom of a slideshow that would scroll accross as the slideshow progresses?

The thumbnails in Muse slideshows and compositions currently are only static and cannot be set to automatically scroll with the progression of images.
This is currently a feature that is still being looked into and there are other posts regarding this. If you search for existing posts on a topic (http://forums.adobe.com/message/4777406#4777406) and add onto that, it increases the chances of a request getting priority rather than creating a new thread.
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Hi Peter,
Thanks for your help, but did you see where I wrote that the problem occurs in the exact same way with my trackpad? I've also tried another mouse and had the same difficulty. So it's not just the magic mouse.

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