AJAX Showcase Module

Just been at Drupal for a while and thought i would try designing my first module.

I had this idea of a "showcase" on another non-CMS site i did - and since i am moving that site over to Drupal figured i should give it a shot.

to start with ... check it out at: http://www.allanalog.com/d0214/

the SHOWCASE part hopefully is obvious - the porttion in my header that cycles through various blurbs on different technologies.

a little bit about it... in case anone is interested...

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- currently designed as a module - but missing a "settings" page since i am not quite sure how to add that yet.

- uses Jeremy's categories.module

- basically the showcase module uses AJAX to dump teasers from all nodes belonging to a given category into a defined block - the module takes (although currenly hard coded) block ID and uses that as the dumping ground for the output

- it also takes absolute co-ordianates to throw the little control panel (stop, play, step) on the page (also done through AJAX)

issues:

- i have the JS to do flow control (try hitting the "play" button a few times) but haven't converted to drupal's ajax yet
- need to add settings page (once i learn how to do that)
- the way that i toss the control onto page is incorrect - see http://drupal.org/node/51878 if anyone could point me in right direction.

peter....