Topic: Carousel / Using carousel for flickr style stream

Ok, I got it working, for my purposes anyway. I put together a new class Ajax.CarouselStream that extends Ajax.Carousel. It allows you to provide an offset value which is the real index position in the stream you want to start at. When the Carousel needs to request new items from the server (for either the end of the list or the beginning) it uses the offset to adjust the to and from values to get the correct stream items.

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Topic: Carousel / Using carousel for flickr style stream

I’m experimenting with using the Ajax.Carousel to set up a stream browser like on flickr. I’m trying a few things and reading the code, but I’m just wondering if there’s an easy way to get the Carousel to either move further left in the list (below 0 such as from:-2, to: 0) or be coerced into starting at a specific place in the list besides 0, such as 202 for example. Basically I’m working with lists of up to a couple thousand items and I’d like to be able to initialize the Carousel at any particular item position in the list and be able to move forward or backward from that starting point. Any tips?