/**
 * Custom inital load handler. Called when the carousel loads the initial
 * set of data items. Specified to the carousel as the configuration
 * parameter: loadInitHandler
 **/
var loadInitialItems = function(type, args) {

	var start = args[0];
	var last = args[1]; 
	load(this, start, last);	
};

/**
 * Custom load next handler. Called when the carousel loads the next
 * set of data items. Specified to the carousel as the configuration
 * parameter: loadNextHandler
 **/
var loadNextItems = function(type, args) {	

	var start = args[0];
	var last = args[1]; 
	var alreadyCached = args[2];
	
	if(!alreadyCached) {
		load(this, start, last);
	}
};

/**
 * Custom load previous handler. Called when the carousel loads the previous
 * set of data items. Specified to the carousel as the configuration
 * parameter: loadPrevHandler
 **/
var loadPrevItems = function(type, args) {
	var start = args[0];
	var last = args[1]; 
	var alreadyCached = args[2];
	
	if(!alreadyCached) {
		load(this, start, last);
	}
};  

var load = function(carousel, start, last) {
	for(var i=start;i<=last;i++) {
		var liItem = carousel.addItem(i, fmtItem(imageList[i], "#", "Number " + i, i));
	}
}

/**
 * Custom button state handler for enabling/disabling button state. 
 * Called when the carousel has determined that the previous button
 * state should be changed.
 * Specified to the carousel as the configuration
 * parameter: prevButtonStateHandler
 **/

var carousel; // for ease of debugging; globals generally not a good idea
var pageLoad = function() 
{
	carousel = new YAHOO.extension.Carousel("dhtml-carousel", 
		{
			numVisible:        4,
			animationSpeed:    0.7,
			scrollInc:         1,
			orientation:       "vertical",
			navMargin:         0,
			loadInitHandler:   loadInitialItems,
			autoPlay: 			4000,
			size:			   7,
			wrap:			   true
		}
	);
};

YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(window, 'load', pageLoad);