Hi again,
I've gotten a little bit further with this to the point where it
displays my new effect but unfortunately it also seems to be trying to
do the old effect as well which looks awful.
Has anyone got any ideas???
Thanks
Keith
On 24 Jun, 17:08, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just started using jQuery with the cycle plugin for displaying a
> slideshow. It works really well and does everything that I need to
> apart from one thing.
>
> I have a requirement to be able to change the display duration of each
> slide and the transition used for each slide on the fly. Changing the
> display duration is done easily enough by setting opts.timeout in a
> before callback function. I also thought that in the same function I
> would be able to set opts.fx to whatever I wanted but it doesn't seem
> to work that way.
>
> Having looked through the cycle plugin code it seems pretty obvious
> that the timeout is used each time at the end of the go function but
> the transition type is only setup the once in the cycle function. I've
> tried replicating the code for initialising the transition by putting
> the following in the go function (with globals declared for the
> container and slides) but this doesn't work:
>
> // run transition init fn
>
> var init = $.fn.cycle.transitions[opts.fx];
>
> if ($.isFunction(init))
>
> init($g_cont, $g_slides, opts);
>
> else if (opts.fx != 'custom')
>
> log('unknown transition: ' + opts.fx);
>
> I've also tried replicating almost all of the cycle function into a
> new function taking out the parts that I don't think are necessary and
> calling this new function at the top of the go function but again this
> didn't work.
>
> I'd be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction on
> this and/or explain a bit more about how the transitions are setup so
> that I can code in the functionality that I need.
>
> Thanks for your time in advance.
>
> Keith
