Run some jQuery whenever slide changes?

So no call back for this then? I have to modify the module?

Steven, thanks a lot for the resources, the first I've seen but the second was new info. However I am not understanding how this is implemented, when I run the code as it is shown on that example it doesn't work with views slideshow. Do I need some module to make Views Slideshow use the cycle plugin and respect its callbacks?

Edit, ok with a lot of trial and error I've started to understand how it's supposed to work -- I define the functions in my jQuery but put the options in the advanced options field. But my syntax is wrong or something, no matter what I do I get uncaught type error that onBefore() has no method 'apply'

Someone should really take it upon themselves to document this stuff. It is absolutely awful documentation, and it's sad, because all the information is there, yet people waste dozens of hours on problems like this because there isn't a simple EXAMPLE of actual REAL WORLD use. :(

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3919773/jquery-cycle-plugin-callback-...

I found this document which gave me some false hope, unfortunately the problem still occurs. When I tried creating and calling the function directly in the advanced options I get a Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token null. This occurs in the middle of my freaking doctype.

I'm about to slaughter something.

Thanks Steven.

In my jQuery I define the functions:

function onBefore(){
	$(".activeSlide .overlayed canvas").animate({opacity:1},"slow");
} function onAfter(){
	$(".activeSlide .overlayed canvas").animate({opacity:0},"slow");
}

Then in the Advanced Options box for views slideshow, I have tried several variations to no avail.

before:onBefore(),
after:onAfter()

before:onBefore()
after:onAfter()

before:onBefore
after:onAfter

'before':'onBefore'
'after':'onAfter'

And they all give me

Uncaught TypeError: Object onBefore(); has no method 'apply'

I really appreciate your attempts to help out, but there is no such option on the current version of Views Slideshow on Drupal 6. There is only "Advanced Options". It is a textarea. There is no dropdown.

It appears you are using Drupal 7. I don't know what's changed. But I wasn't wrapping the function at all in the advanced box and wouldn't expect that to work. The function is created in a document.ready. I mean my understanding is that this advanced options box accepts arguments for the jQuery cycle plugin. So, by all means, the code I've tried should work. If I could just be the one to call cycle, instead of views doing it and screwing with my syntax, this would be cake.

This is an extreme failure in usability of this module in my opinion. :( I really hope someone here can help me out. Is this a bug for me? Because I have run Views Slideshow on probably a dozen or so installations, with separate download/installs and I have never seen that dropdown before.

That doesn't make any sense to me. This is clearly a bug and NOT working as intended. There is a field for doing exactly what I'm saying and it simply doesn't work. It does not run the code. What is the point of that advanced options box? It NEVER gets called.