in some browsers the click event is stolen by flash (when clicking on the flash object). That's why I wrote this:

the only problem is that the proplayer (JW Player) is flash, and I don't know if the play button also triggers a javascript event. you have to research a bit about that...

I guess what I meant by "It doesn't seem to work" is that the click on the pro player flash movie slide (the first slide) doesn't pause the slider (in Chrome and IE) -- the other browsers I've tested do pause it (Safari and Firefox). hmmm.

works in Chrome and IE8 (in Windows 7) for me. I did not click on a flash though, just an image, that can be the difference.

Cool. So far I've had some success with that, but some browsers don't seem to work. It works on Safari (Mac) Firefox (Mac & Windows), but doesn't work on Chrome (Mac & Windows) and IE8 (Windows).

Here's where I added that code to the init area:
// init
var timeout;
if(options.auto){;
timeout = setTimeout(function(){
animate("next",false);
},options.pause);
};

if(!options.continuous && options.controlsFade){
$("a","#"+options.prevId).hide();
$("a","#"+options.firstId).hide();
};

Anyone have any ideas why it seems to work differently in IE/Chrome than in Firefox/Safari?

The site I'm developing lives here - http://www.queenofthesun.com/index.php (you do have to make sure the url is 'index.php' as the html file takes precedence if you don't)

Any comments, suggestions are very appreciated.

a code like this (in the init area of custom-easyslider1.7.js):

$(this).click(function(){ clearTimeout(timeout); });

will stop the slider if it's clicked.

Thanks! I imagined that it would not be exactly easy, but this would be a great way to dive into some javascript and learn a bit more.

Another idea for this kind of functionality perhaps would be to trigger the video in a lightbox, and position it directly above the slider- so even if it is flipping the images in the background, the lightbox would cover it. Seems like that would be a kludge-y way to do it, thought.

Thanks for your thoughts on this, I really appreciate it, and am going to wind up purchasing the theme for other sites once I really learn the ins and outs.

barry

you have to edit the custom-easyslider1.7.js then. Create a function for stopping and a click event for the play button. The stop function would then clear the animation timer like this: clearTimeout(timeout);

the only problem is that the proplayer (JW Player) is flash, and I don't know if the play button also triggers a javascript event. you have to research a bit about that...

Howdy,

First, I love the theme! Getting down to business, I'm wondering if anyone out there has done this:

Put a proplayer video in a BF slider with auto="true" (so it automatically moves), but found a way to have the slider pause after the slide's video has been clicked and started to play.

You can see what I'm doing here: http://dev.queenofthesun.com/

The video trailer is the first slide in the link above, so if someone manages to click the play button, the slide will eventually flip while the video plays. It would be lovely if there was some way to pass a message from the video to the BF_Slider to pause. Looks like if you press the back button on the slider then the slider is put in a paused state, so perhaps it's possible to do this if the video starts..

Anyone ever done this or would know where to start with the javascript? Seems like this could be a pretty cool bit of functionality.

- Barry