Carousel modifications

[cnymike]

The mechanism behind the very cool Carousel, is a jquery plugin called "Cycle" and can be found here...
http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/

What's also cool is that there are many other functions that can be added, changed or adjusted and those additional functions are here...
http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/options.html

The functions file that you would need to modify in your own installation of Revolution Office can be found in...
/wp-content/themes/office_10/scripts/jquery.functions.js

One very simple modification might be to change the speed of the slide to the next set of images. The speed of that slide is controlled by the...ta-daaaa... by the "speed" function which has a default value of "800". So by changing the value to a higher number, lets say 1500, you would be slowing down the sliding effect and by lowering the value to say "400" you would be speeding up the sliding effect. Here is the jquery.functions.js code as it appears in your installation...

/*	ClientName - js/jquery/functions.js

	jQuery-dependent functions
*/

$(window).load(function () {
	
	$('#slide-box').cycle({
		fx: 'scrollHorz',
		prev: '#slides-prev a',
		next: '#slides-next a',
		timeout: 0,
		speed: 800
	});
	
});

/* EOF */

As another example, you could change the horizontal scrolling to vertical scrolling simply by changing the line...

fx: 'scrollHorz',

changing it to this...

fx: 'scrollVert',

And as a final example, you could easily change the horizontal slide to a fade effect instead by changing...

fx: 'scrollHorz',

changing it to this...

fx: 'fade',

Furthermore, let's say that you don't want the Carousel to operate as originally implemented, which is to display the most recent posts. Let's say that you would rather have it be a Carousel of specific photos that you've chosen and put into a particular folder... well that's relatively easy to accomplish and thanks to Jason who provided the sample code, I'd like to refer you to the thread that discusses how to do that...
http://www.revolutiontwo.com/support....php?f=35&t=24

I'm no code guru by any means, so please don't ask me for support as I probably won't be able to help. But I just wanted to share what I discovered by poking around and asking the right people a few questions.

Have fun.

Michael