A: First a few important points to remember and good practice facts;

!! - All the slides in the Library have instance names "slide1" "slide2" and so on. If you change those then the system will automatically update accordingly. Wether or not you're manually placing them or using the automatic row/columns, the PIMP will always generate instances of the slides dynamically. Even if you use the "Container Manual" MovieClip, it merely serves so you can position your slides manually but the actual creation of the slides will be done by ActionScript.

!! - Make sure that at least each slide 'exists' so it won't return errors, you can't leave for example "slide5" missing and create 10 slides... then you'll have to update slide instance names 6 to 10 into 5 to 9

!! - In case you change slide order by renaming their linkage names, then it's best to also rename the actual MovieClip names "slide 1", "slide 2" in the Library as well according to how you renamed their linkage name otherwise you'll certainly start confusing contents.

Now, assuming you for example you want an 8th slide, the following is the basic procedure;

1. Duplicate "slide 7" to "slide 8" in the Library.
   
   If you have set the component parameter 'automatic' to false, so you'll be using the "Container Manual" MovieClip in the Library.
2. Drag an instance of MC "slide 8" somewhere in "Container Manual" on stage and give it Instance name "obj8"
   
3. Set component parameter 'totalitems' to 8
   
   Test the result and slide 8 will appear when you 'zoom out'
   
4. Open library MC 'extra menu' and duplicate below the text 'staff members' the instance of "extra menu button" with instance name 'but7' to a new copy and give it instance name 'but8'. Also duplicate the text above and give it your own text. Update component Inspector 'itemtexts' by adding an 8th array entry with your text. This text will appear at the metal ball hookup buttons
   
   Then, you'll want to link it to the rest of the items. How... for example;
   
5. Open slide 7 and duplicate hook1 to a new hook2. That's the metal balls linking lines between slides. Rember to adjust the instance name in the Properties panel
6. Open slide 8 and remove the hook2-/hook6 ... you'll probably only need one.
7. In main timeline select component and add a new [hookups] parameter array entry (11) for the line between slide 7 and 8 , give it value "7-2,8-1" without quotes
   
   test it and it should work ok now
   
   
   

A: The easiest and reckomended way to do this is renaming the MovieClip names AND its Linkage names.

1. Set the component parameter "totalitems", if you want for example 4 slides then set it to 4
2. Rename the slides MC names. In case you want for example slide 1-3-4-7 then rename those 4 to "slide 1" "slide 2" "slide 3" "slide 4"
   IMPORTANT!! Pay attention that you change existing slide names first to anything else, MC names need to be unique!!
3. Rename the slides Linkage names. Right-click the slides/MC's in the Library you just made to be slides 1-2-3-4 and for each of them click "Linkage ...", then adjust the linkage name with the according number.
   IMPORTANT!! Pay attention that you change existing slide Linkage names first to anything else, Linkage names need to be unique!!
4. If you have set parameter "automatic" to false, adjust the slides positions to your needs in MC "container manual"
5. Adjust the parameter "hookups", leave only those hookup lines which you require. Any redundant lines will return errors.
   

A: The hookup array values need to be specific. For each line you'll need to create/add a new array node to parameter "hookups" in the form of

ITEMNUMBER dash ITEMHOOKUPBALLNUMBER comma ITEMNUMBER dash ITEMHOOKUPBALLNUMBER

So for example creating a line from slide 1 hookup ball number 2 to slide 5 hookup ball number 4 will be

1-2,5-4

And so on...
Best/safest practice is to remove all array values except for the first one and start from there. Start with one line, test it... if it works then add another line... if that new one works then add another one.. test again.. and so on.

A: In main timeline select the component on stage. Open Component Inspector and doubleclick the [itemtexts] array/paramater and change the array values to your liking

A: To add a new gallery;

- In xml data, duplicate the latest gallery. Update category="X", Name="gallery name", and Folder="imagesX" according to the category number, name and image folder. And adjust the listed images to your new category

- In the .fla open MC "slide3" from the library, then

• Duplicate last frame in layer [CAROUSEL], in AS3 version make sure no 2 keyframes (in the 2 layers of [CAROUSEL]) are after each other, because of some flash bug the result won't work properly unless the component instance (read 'keyframe') is cleared and a new component instance (read 'keyframe') is generated
• select the "carousel and open component Inspector, change the 'category' parameter to the new number
• if using the AS3 version - In layer [buttons] duplicate the last button and give it a new instance name accordingly to "bX" where X is the new number
• if using the AS2 version - In layer [buttons] duplicate the last button, select it and open the actions panel and adjust the action gotoAndStop(X); where X is the new number
• if using the AS2 version - In layer [text] duplicate the last textfield, select it and adjust the instance name in the Properties panel to "txtX" accordingly, where X is the new number

A: Open the AS file, look for all occurences of [Inspectable with type = Array. Flash has a bug (latest versions, works ok in CS3). Look at the defaultValue, check if it the default value is enclosed in brackets [ ] , if it does, change it to parentesis ( ) and save and test again.