Not that I’ll be working on any of these any time in the near future, but here’s a list of Image Scroller feature requests.
- Vertical scrolling!
- Option for default target URL (not have to define it per item)
- Additional text field(s)
- Optional background image (URL)
- Smoother (slow-quick-slow) scrolling option
- Option for grayscaling out all but currently moused-over image
- Option for colour band around currently moused-over image
- More control over padding around elements (left & right)
Hello Benjamin,
Its really a nice work! I appreciate your efforts.. I would like to know if I want to have the images in scroller as zoomable buttons just like http://www.salesforce.com/customers/index.jsp [Middle of page flash – Successful Companies tab] and could I able to add images via an external XML file. so it could automatically take newly added images and scroll them in given sequence!
Please let me know if you work on it!
Thanks!
Regards,
John
Hello Benjamin
Your image scroller is amazing, thanks for sharing with us, my question is one of the future features, the auto-start scrolling option, do you have any idea when it will be add to de scroller? I don’t know how complicated that can be to implement, but i hope you release this option soon because is something that i miss in the scroller.
Sorry for the bad english, its not my native language.
Best Regards.
Really like the scroller!
One feature I thought would be good was some sort of anchor for the scroller.
If you have the the scroller and the display item on the same page the page refresh sends the scroller back to the first item. Which if you have quite a few thumbnails can be confusing.
It would be good if it could return to the last clicked state or include an equivilent to a html anchored link.
Hi Ben,
It will be nice to have control over the background color used for thumbnails.
Thanks,
Pascal
Ha :-) Sure. I’ll take a look at the code tonight and see if I can add the option.
Ben,
Super nice scroller!
I’ve been looking for a week for something like this, but haven’t found anything up to par till now.
Only one LITTLE tiny thing is missing to make it perfect for me, an autoscroll option!
Hope 1.4 comes out soon :)
Thanks,
Mike
Just another request for the auto-scroll feature – other than that the entire thing is great!
And yet another request for auto-scrolling :)
Great component.
Good grief, I guess I really need to add that. :-) I’m going to need some time though: I quit my day job at the end of June so I’ll have a lot more time to work on this then.
Thanks for the comments, guys!
autoscroll would be great :)
thankyou
Really nice script! Is there any way to have the large image embedded in the page, instead of a popup? I would love to be able to replace an image with the src of the thumbnail image.
just a thought, and thanks for putting this out there for all to use!
Really nice work, achieves exactly what I’m after and is something no joomla extension would do for me.
I would also really like to see that auto scroll function.
Appreciate it if you could let me know when that might be added.
Cheers.
Hello how i can start to display images from ,say, image number 10, instead of showing always from the first image?
Hi Wally, I’m afraid that feature isn’t available right now. The only way would be to change the content of the input file to start at a different number.
This isn’t possible in your case?
Hi Benjamin
Just set up your image scroller using php to get the image filename from a database, it’s all works a treat and looks and works real well.
so why am i mailing you?
Well… i would love it when the images load if they could fade in from image one on the left to the last image instead of all just being visable instantly as the page loads, it would just add that further bit of sophistication.
But if you can’t do that, it’s a great scroller anyway, cheers
Hi Ben,
Firstly – great scroller. Cant thank you enough for being able to use it, and the fact that you’ve documented it so well so that dumb people like me can use it is great.
Because the latest internet explorer uses tabs for new windows now, I was wondering if there was any way to give that new window focus when it opens from clicking a thumbnail – because its not going to be too obvious to some people using the site.
Thanks loads (or “Diolch yn fawr” as they say in my parts).
Rob, in sunny Wales.
Ben,
I’ve been watching this thread for some time but I haven’t seen anything new to the script … vertical scrolling is my hot topic … I see that there are plenty of wishful thinkers out there too!
Any idea?
My goal is to have a vertical scroller that would import thumbnails at a predetermined h/w … staged 3 at a time … and simply scroll through without any interaction from the user …. almost identical to the horizontal version … just without the visual controls
Thanks in advance,
cmj
Hey Chuck,
Aww, I’ve been adding stuff!
Well, I’m working on a few more features which I’ll be releasing in a month of so:
– glow and zoom effect when mousing over a thumb,
– startAt option
– infinite scroll.
But not vertical scrolling yet. Sorry, first thing’s first! I promise to work on that when I’m done this current bout of work.
All the best –
Ben
Would be great if auto-scroll could loop!
Yeah, Michelle ist right, a loop is missing …
Anyway, your scroller is a grrrreat piece of software !!
yes i need loop too :-) pls add it
I just finished adding it yesterday. :-) Come back in a day or two – I just need to do QA then write the documentation.
– Ben
bug in 1.7 scroller freeze a error masasge:
a script movie is causing Adobe Flash player 9 to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. do you want abort the script?
Hey najx,
Would you mind sending me a link to your page? Also – which browser are you using?
Ben,
You don’t need a link to his page, yours does it too (which is the reason I came here looking for the source so I could fix it). Go to your examples page, click on an arrow and then immediately hover over the scrolling images (move back and forth, sometimes it takes more tries than others) – if you have any MouseOver options set Flash locks up and after about 10-15 seconds you will get an alert box with the message najx said.
Another bug, go to your girlfriends cats example… Click the right arrow and then while the pictures are scrolling to the left, click the left arrow and the pictures start going in different directions.
Another bug, on your Pieter example, click the right arrow and then hover back and forth over the left arrow, when the pictures come to a stop the left arrow is replaced by one of the pictures.
Hey Rob,
You’re quite right, thanks for the info. The “run slowly” problem could be a real problem, since I’m not sure how I can speed up the code to do less execution. But the other problems are simply bugs and can be fixed.
Hmm… I’ll give this some thought; I may have to revert back to the older version. Send me an email at [email protected] if you’d like the source.
Thanks!
– Ben
Ben,
The “Run Slowly” isn’t a problem with code execution, it’s a problem with the code going into a bad state (a race condition), an infinite loop for example. It should be fixable, I’d be happy to take a look at it for you if you wish.
— Rob
Thank you so much for adding the loop, Ben, it helps me a lot !
I have another little one though — could you add an optional property field to make these nav arrows disappear? Right now I can only make them invisible (by adapting nav and arrow to the background color). But then they are still there and take away space. In a loop I don’t necessarily need these nav arrows, and in my case I would like to let the images move until the end of the flash object.
Is there a chance for this feature to be included?
Thanks
KP
This saved me a bunch of time on a hairy project! I would love to be able to define that the auto-scrolling toggles back on when images are moused off.
Amazing work, I am very happy to have found your scroller!
Since this is the feature request board, please chalk up one vote for a feature that would allow disabling of the ‘mouseover’ pause on autoscroll.
Ex: if I set it to autoscroll, i would like to have the option of it continuing to scroll even if the user mouses over an image, so I could have a bunch of logos fly by or something of the sort… I know in terms of usability it might be strange to force a user to chase an image, but i think in some cases (esp. where there are no links) this feature would be useful and warranted…
Appreciate it and keep up the good work…
Hello Benjamin,
I’m currently looking for a replacement of my Javascript thumbnail strip in my gallery.
I really like your scroller. Is there an option that the scroller moves by moving the mouse to one end?
And is it possible to load a 2 nd strip after the first has ended? My problem ist that I have e.g. folders with 400 images. But I don’t want to load all of them at once.
The 2nd thing is the license. It it possilbe to use your scroller in the gallery? TWG can be registered to get a logo free version. Can I still use it?
Thanks, Michael
I was wondering if you can make the scroller work with PNG graphics. My gallery is all PNGs but I would like to use your tool. Thanks,
Glen More
Hi Benjamin!
Your scroller made my day (well, evening) yesterday. If there was one more thing, it’d be perfect for my use case: an option to disable the navigation arrows (see also comment #28).
I just use the scroller as eye candy, without navigation, links, … Even the pause-on-hover when using auto scrolling could go away for that purpose (see also comment #30).
Thanks, Karsten
Great script Ben
Thanks very much.
Just adding another vote for the autoscroll to continue when the mouse leaves an image.
Thanks again
Anton
Awesome script! I’m also adding another vote for the autoscroll to continue when the mouse leaves an image as mentioned in comment #30 :)
Thanks!
Again, Great Script! Would be really nice to have a “non-nav button, auto scrolling (right to left) with mouse over (pause) mouse out (resume scroll) version of this app
Thank you for all that you do!
Enjoy Life! -Darin
has anyone used the scroller with lightbox successfully?
i tried parsing rel=ligthbox using an onclick mouse javascript ro declare var=info.rel but nothing gives joy. please advise how to pass rel=lightbox along with other arguments in a &query string&
Thanks
anyone?
Hi Benjamin,
I think it would be a good idea to add a dynamicUpdateContent(xml) function to the swf object.
We could call it from javascript to dynamically update the content of the scroller with something that looks like :
document.getElementById(“id_scroller”).dynamicUpdateContent(content);
Tell me what you think.
Regards,
Guillaume
Is there any way to make this work with images of different widths? I need to make a scroller for logos, and I can make them all the same height, but they are all different widths.
Thanks.
Can this be made for Vertical Scroll?
I’d like to make yet another request for the ability to disable nav buttons and for the auto scroll to continue when the mouse leaves a picture. So that it could look something like this: http://geroldbrothers.com/
has anyone gotten this to work with HighSlide? I have been trying with no such luck.
Thanks for the great flash image scroller!
I ran into an issue where the flash component enters an infinite loop when the user quickly moves the mouse back and forth over an image, then over one of the left/right navigation buttons which results in 2 items being included in the _root.priorityJobs array. You might consider modifying the code at the beginning of the for loop on the Priority Jobs – Frame 1 to include the following which seems to fix this issue:
Priority Jobs – Frame 1
ActionScript Code:
…
// loop through all jobs in the priorityJobs array and do each job simultaneously
for (i=0; i<_root.jobListCopy.length; i++)
{
// make sure index parameter is specified for the following jobs
if (_root.jobListCopy[i] == "fade_in_item" ||
_root.jobListCopy[i] == "start_thumb_glow" ||
_root.jobListCopy[i] == "stop_thumb_glow" ||
_root.jobListCopy[i] == "start_zoom" ||
_root.jobListCopy[i] == "stop_zoom" ||
_root.jobListCopy[i] == "start_shadow" ||
_root.jobListCopy[i] == "stop_shadow") {
cancelPriorityJob(_root.jobListCopy[i]);
break;
}
var jobInfo = "";
…
Hi Benjamin, yours is the most detailed instructions i have found so far but with me not been very code technical i am struggling a little to get it work. When you mention the xml file that calls the images. Where does this file go and what do you call it. Would appreciate the help on this if you have the time. Thanks. Thicko carl !!!
Hi,
Would it be possible to add a tooltip feature on the images?
When the mouseover, it’s able to show the name of the logo and text information.
This flash image scroller is great.
Regards,
Chris