Need a genius to help with a spinning menu

programming flash
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Hey guys - having a serious problem with something here - I have a spinning carousel menu which I got from a tutorial at gotoandlearn.com.

I’ve got the menu to work prefectly, however I need to insert an object in the middle of the menu, so that it looks like the menu is spinning around this object.

Obviously, if I just put the object in there, then the whole menu stays on top of it. I would like to know if it’s possible to make it so that the objects which are farthest at the back swap depths with the object I want them to spin around, so that they actually go behind it completely… Anyone got any ideas? here is the code:

import mx.utils.Delegate;
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;

var numOfItems:Number;
var radiusX:Number = 300;
var radiusY:Number = 75;
var centerX:Number = Stage.width / 2;
var centerY:Number = Stage.height / 2;
var speed:Number = 0.05;
var perspective:Number = 130;
var home:MovieClip = this;
theText._alpha = 0;

var tooltip:MovieClip = this.attachMovie("tooltip","tooltip",10000);
tooltip._alpha = 0;

var xml:XML = new XML();
xml.ignoreWhite = true;

xml.onLoad = function()
{
    var nodes = this.firstChild.childNodes;
    numOfItems = nodes.length;
    for(var i=0;i<numOfItems;i++)
    {
        var t = home.attachMovie("item","item"+i,i+1);
        t.angle = i * ((Math.PI*2)/numOfItems);
        t.onEnterFrame = mover;
        t.toolText = nodes*.attributes.tooltip;
        t.content = nodes*.attributes.content;
        t.icon.inner.loadMovie(nodes*.attributes.image);
        t.r.inner.loadMovie(nodes*.attributes.image);
        t.icon.onRollOver = over;
        t.icon.onRollOut = out;
        t.icon.onRelease = released;
    }
}

function over()
{
    //BONUS Section
    var sou:Sound = new Sound();
    sou.attachSound("sover");
    sou.start();
    
    home.tooltip.tipText.text = this._parent.toolText;
    home.tooltip._x = this._parent._x;
    home.tooltip._y = this._parent._y - this._parent._height/2;
    home.tooltip.onEnterFrame = Delegate.create(this,moveTip);
    home.tooltip._alpha = 100;
}

function out()
{
    delete home.tooltip.onEnterFrame;
    home.tooltip._alpha = 0;
}

function released()
{
    //BONUS Section
    var sou:Sound = new Sound();
    sou.attachSound("sdown");
    sou.start();
    
    home.tooltip._alpha = 0;
    for(var i=0;i<numOfItems;i++)
    {
        var t:MovieClip = home["item"+i];
        t.xPos = t._x;
        t.yPos = t._y;
        t.theScale = t._xscale;
        delete t.icon.onRollOver;
        delete t.icon.onRollOut;
        delete t.icon.onRelease;
        delete t.onEnterFrame;
        if(t != this._parent)
        {
            var tw:Tween = new Tween(t,"_xscale",Strong.easeOut,t._xscale,0,1,true);
            var tw2:Tween = new Tween(t,"_yscale",Strong.easeOut,t._yscale,0,1,true);
            var tw3:Tween = new Tween(t,"_alpha",Strong.easeOut,100,0,1,true);
        }
        else
        {
            var tw:Tween = new Tween(t,"_xscale",Strong.easeOut,t._xscale,100,1,true);
            var tw2:Tween = new Tween(t,"_yscale",Strong.easeOut,t._yscale,100,1,true);
            var tw3:Tween = new Tween(t,"_x",Strong.easeOut,t._x,100,1,true);
            var tw4:Tween = new Tween(t,"_y",Strong.easeOut,t._y,320,1,true);
            var tw5:Tween = new Tween(theText,"_alpha",Strong.easeOut,0,100,1,true);
            theText.text = t.content;
            var s:Object = this;
            tw.onMotionStopped = function()
            {
                s.onRelease = unReleased;
            }
        }
    }
}

function unReleased()
{
    //BONUS Section
    var sou:Sound = new Sound();
    sou.attachSound("sdown");
    sou.start();
    
    delete this.onRelease;
    var tw:Tween = new Tween(theText,"_alpha",Strong.easeOut,100,0,0.5,true);
    for(var i=0;i<numOfItems;i++)
    {
        var t:MovieClip = home["item"+i];
        if(t != this._parent)
        {
            var tw:Tween = new Tween(t,"_xscale",Strong.easeOut,0,t.theScale,1,true);
            var tw2:Tween = new Tween(t,"_yscale",Strong.easeOut,0,t.theScale,1,true);
            var tw3:Tween = new Tween(t,"_alpha",Strong.easeOut,0,100,1,true);
        }
        else
        {
            var tw:Tween = new Tween(t,"_xscale",Strong.easeOut,100,t.theScale,1,true);
            var tw2:Tween = new Tween(t,"_yscale",Strong.easeOut,100,t.theScale,1,true);
            var tw3:Tween = new Tween(t,"_x",Strong.easeOut,t._x,t.xPos,1,true);
            var tw4:Tween = new Tween(t,"_y",Strong.easeOut,t._y,t.yPos,1,true);
            tw.onMotionStopped = function()
            {
                for(var i=0;i<numOfItems;i++)
                {
                    var t:MovieClip = home["item"+i];
                    t.icon.onRollOver = Delegate.create(t.icon,over);
                    t.icon.onRollOut = Delegate.create(t.icon,out);
                    t.icon.onRelease = Delegate.create(t.icon,released);
                    t.onEnterFrame = mover;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}


function moveTip()
{
    home.tooltip._x = this._parent._x;
    home.tooltip._y = this._parent._y - this._parent._height/2;
}

xml.load("icons.xml");

function mover()
{
    this._x = Math.cos(this.angle) * radiusX + centerX;
    this._y = Math.sin(this.angle) * radiusY + centerY;
    var s = (this._y - perspective) /(centerY+radiusY-perspective);
    this._xscale = this._yscale = s*100;
    this.angle += this._parent.speed;
    this.swapDepths(Math.round(this._xscale) + 100);
}

this.onMouseMove = function()
{
    speed = (this._xmouse-centerX)/5500;
}

Also, here is a link to the menu, direct from gotoandlearn.com:

www.gotoandlearn.com/files/carousel3.zip

Thanks in advance!