# Carousel... new version?

**URL:** <https://discourse.softpress.com/t/carousel-new-version/1142>\
**Category:** Freeway\
**Created:** [March 27, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/carousel-new-version/1142 "2008-03-27T18:06:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![dhrose](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dhrose](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/dhrose)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/carousel-new-version/1142/1 "2008-03-27T18:06:52Z")

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I just DLd the newest version, and I can’t seem to get it to work? I don’t get the Carousel action at all when I group panes, but something called Observer??? Hmmm… what did I do? I’m still using beta 3, so maybe I should use my old version of protaculous…

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**Author:** ![waltd](https://discourse.softpress.com/user_avatar/discourse.softpress.com/waltd/32/2720_2.png) [@waltd](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/waltd)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/carousel-new-version/1142/2 "2008-03-28T13:50:55Z")

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Check to be sure that your panes are all layers, and that the group  
itself is also a layer. I just spent a long while trying to debug  
this, only to find that the Big Blue Button was off and the items  
were not layered.

Walter

On Mar 27, 2008, at 2:06 PM, dhrose wrote:

> I just DLd the newest version, and I can’t seem to get it to work?  
> I don’t get the Carousel action at all when I group panes, but  
> something called Observer??? Hmmm… what did I do? I’m still using  
> beta 3, so maybe I should use my old version of protaculous…
> 
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**Author:** ![dhrose](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dhrose](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/dhrose)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/carousel-new-version/1142/3 "2008-03-28T14:31:51Z")

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Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I think I didn’t have the actions within a “general” folder when I copied from one machine to the other? When I created a folder within actions called “general” it started working again… Hmmm. That’s the only thing I can think of! P.S. What’s the Observer function???

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**Author:** ![waltd](https://discourse.softpress.com/user_avatar/discourse.softpress.com/waltd/32/2720_2.png) [@waltd](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/waltd)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/carousel-new-version/1142/4 "2008-03-28T15:08:39Z")

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If you have fooled around with the Protaculous action at all, you  
will note that it allows you to attach an event observer to the page  
load. This is a JavaScript function that runs as soon as the page  
loads, and does something – anything – in that instant. It’s the  
“correct” way to do something that you might have made happen using  
‘body onload=“myGreatFunction()” …’

Well, the Observer function is like that, but for individual page  
elements. Draw something on the page, attach the Observer Action to  
it, and you will find that you can apply a different Prototype-scoped  
function to each of the four basic events in that object’s life:  
click, double-click, mouseover, and mouseout. (Note that click and  
double-click are mutually exclusive.)

It’s very much a geek-level version of the various effects that Joe  
has built into the Scriptaculous Action. If you know how to write  
your own Prototype (or Scriptaculous) functions, you can use Observer  
to sneak them into your Freeway page very easily.

Walter

On Mar 28, 2008, at 10:31 AM, dhrose wrote:

> Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I think I didn’t  
> have the actions within a “general” folder when I copied from one  
> machine to the other? When I created a folder within actions called  
> “general” it started working again… Hmmm. That’s the only thing I  
> can think of! P.S. What’s the Observer function???
> 
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