Charles,

Why don't you organise the pages in cards and swipe those cards? There are 
visual effects that give the appearance of sliding pages from right to left or 
the reverse.

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On 14 sep 2012, at 22:19, Charles E Buchwald wrote:

> I'm working on an iPad app that is essentially a photo book.
> I've created a big scrolling group of images that are 1024 x 768, and a 
> mobile controller to manage the scrolling.
> A couple of chapters are longer than 30+ pages, and were not scrolling as 
> expected. It took me a while to realize I was encountering a limit to the 
> width of the content of a scrolling group. Reorganizing the chapters to be 
> less than 30+ pages each is not an option at this point.
> 
> Has anyone come up with a strategy for dealing with very large scrolling 
> groups?
> 
> I'm working on splitting the content into 2 groups, and a way to jump from 
> one to the other. It would be nice if it was relatively seamless, but that's 
> not essential. I expect I'll have to insert a sort of "read more..." button 
> at the "end" of group 1, hide group 1, show group 2, reset the scroll of the 
> mobile control to zero... and continue on scrolling. Then reverse the whole 
> process to go from group 2 to group 1.
> 
> Back in the Supercard days, I once worked on a Myst-like game. I used just 2 
> cards for most navigation, switching back and forth between them and changing 
> the graphics on the hidden, non-active card dynamically in response to the 
> next "step". All the navigation choices/options were held in a flat-file 
> database, so edits and maintenance was really convenient.
> 
> I can vaguely imagine something like that with this scrolling issue... but 
> haven't figured out how it would all happen smoothly and seamlessly....
> 
> Any insights?
> 
> Thanks,
> - Charles


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