By nateb on

EDIT: Issue resolved by use of Views Slideshow. Thanks to everybody who wrote me with offers.

I'm currently looking at Jquery Slideshow for Drupal which I'm testing out here.

It's the simplest module for displaying multiple images that I've found for the system. Everything else is pretty over-the-top. It's great in that it's Java and not Flash, pulls info from filefields and can display (resized) images based on ImageCache presets.

But it has some problems. Mostly in looking clunky. There are a few things I'd like to fix:

1. Images in the slideshows would be centered
2. Navigation elements would appear at top (by default or as an option in the module)
3. Image number and total image number would appear at top (by default or as an option in the module)
4. Maybe #2 and #3 could appear on the same line (like Indexhibit).
5. Titles of image would appear at bottom of image, or below it (as is the current default or, new, as an option in the module)
6. Output would look like this, which is essentially simplifying things like Indexhibit's approach to the slideshow. I didn't go with Indexhibit for the system since I need something that doesn't attach files to individual posts but pulls from a central repository.

I'm looking for a developer to make these changes. I've contacted the original author but they're too busy for this right now. If you're interested, please send me your rate and a timeline, and/or if an original module based on JQuery Cycle might be a better solution.

Also let me know if you'd allow for these modifications be posted back to the Drupal repository. I think it's good when developments go back to the community.

Thanks!

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nevets commented

Have you tried the Views Slideshow module?

2 and 3 are already settings in views slideshow, with views and #5 is a matter of what fields you include in the view.

I think #1 is true by default, otherwise like #4 it's a matter of css.

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nateb commented

Thanks for the suggestion, but I need something that generates the slideshows from the image fields in the nodes for display in the nodes.

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

Do you mean you want the images in a given node to show as a slideshow in that node? If yes, views slideshow can be used to achieve that.

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nateb commented

Yes. I was under the impression that the views slideshow was for creating slideshows of nodes, not content in nodes.

Is it implemented at the content display level for the node, or as a view that appears in a format like a panel? Sorry if these questions sound uninformed, I'm going to read through the docs for Views Slideshow now.

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nateb commented

Ah. After finding http://drupal.org/node/814132 I see you were right all along. Thanks for the suggestion!