Right! We finally got this working and all looks good. Now i'd like to modify the default vsd-upright-60i theme to have the pager to the right hand side.

I've had a poke around in the custom templates, but only see top and bottom options in there, which I assume are the options that get shown in views.
I know there is a market for these custom themes over a Pblauws site , but i'd be pretty happy customising this existing theme if possible.

Can I get this functionality by modifying the existing theme or do I need to purchase?

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ppblaauw commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

You can customize the theme yourself.

vsd-upright-60p (p from portrait) is the name for portrait slideshow theme layouts
vsd-upright-60l (l from landscape) is the name for landscape slideshow theme layouts

You can change the upright part to what you want, e.g. vsd-custom-name-60l

10 is for number pager
20 is for prev-next pager
30 is for text pager
40 is for image pager
50 is for image/text pager
60 is for scrollable pager

When a landscape slideshow theme is chosen only pager left and right shows up
When a portrait slideshow theme is chosen only pager top and pager bottom shows up

Hope this helps you further, please let me know

The commercial themes are for people who don't want to spend the time customizing there layout, testing it in most popular browsers or who want to have a headstart in further customizations.

By purchasing a commercial theme you also sponsor the development of the module.

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hixster commented

Thanks for the quick answer Ppblaauw, where can i find the vsd-upright-60l theme with the left right options?
Or are you saying I can copy and customize the vsd-upright-60p file to become a vsd-upright-60l?

is it as simple as renaming the pager and block .tmpl files to vsd-upright-60l or do i need to change any option in the templates , top | bottom to left | right etc??

Thanks again..

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ppblaauw commented

There is no vsd-upright-60l theme, that is what you want to make.

In this tutorial page you can read how you can make a custom slideshow theme from other slideshow themes.
Its for the ddblock module but the steps are similar for the views_slideshow_ddblock module.

Only in step 5 you DON'T have to replace all occurrences of $template with $custom_template

When you use the convention for naming I explained earlier the new theme will show up in the settings page of the slideshow.

Hope this helps you further, please let me know

Edit: added actual link to tutorial page

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hixster commented

Hi Ppblaauw, thanks again for the help,

- where's the link to the tutorial page?
- Will I need to change the pager position variable from top | bottom to left | right?
- Will the pager scroll from top to bottom and visa versa automatically or do I need to change any javascript?

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ppblaauw commented

Oops, forgot to add the link.

Hereby: http://ddblock.myalbums.biz/node/773

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hixster commented

- Will I need to change the pager position variable from top | bottom to left | right?
- Will the pager scroll from top to bottom and visa versa automatically or do I need to change any javascript?

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ppblaauw commented

When you use vsd-custom-name-60l (from landscape) automatically left and right can be chosen in the slideshow configuration page in views

When you use vsd-custom-name-60l (from landscape) automatically the scrollable pager will be a vertical scrollable pager

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hixster commented

great, thanks for confirming that.

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hixster commented

o.k. So i seem to have a landscape theme working for this fairly well, thanks for the instructions.

Only thing I am having a problem with is the slide pager buttons - div.prev and div.next. The hiding logic doesn't seem to work as expected in vertical scrolling mode, for example: each time i click on next, it's visibility goes off and the previous button comes on. If i click previous, it hides and next comes on. The same happens for whichever slide is active. Hope that makes sense ?

This seems to happen only when clicking on the div.next and div.prev, if I use the pager in the main slide area, the visibility works as expected? :-S

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ppblaauw commented

Do you have a link to your Internet site?

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hixster commented

er, running on the dev server at the moment, maybe later in the week.

I think I might have found a workaround. I tried setting number of pager slides to 3 as you suggest in another thread and the pager seems to be making more sense.

I will try switching it back to 5 when I have a live version, so you can see how it was working.
thanks again for all the help on this, i've now got a pretty cool looking landscape views slideshow ddblock that does everything i need and could't quite achieve with regular slideshows (was trying to use jcarouselThumbs).
The templates are quite straightforward to understand after a bit of playing :-)

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hixster commented

One other thing i'm experiencing. When I click the readmore link it advances the slideshow and is not going to the URL set in the link?

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ppblaauw commented
Title: Pager position to the right » Pager position to the right (Fixed)
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

There is a next setting in the configuration page of the slideshow:
"Enable users to advanced to the next content by clicking on the content."

Probably you have this option checked, you need to uncheck it.

Hope this helps you further, please let me know.

P.S. Please post different support request in different post so they are also useful for other users.
Will close this issue

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apmsooner commented

I've got the sample themes working fine. I've tried to create a custom theme based on the existing ones and I have problems getting it to work. I've followed the instructions exactly. I've simple changed views-slideshow-ddblock-cycle-pager-content-vsd-upright-40p.tpl.php to views-slideshow-ddblock-cycle-pager-content-vsd-upright-40l.tpl.php, did the same for the pager file, changed the directory name for the css, changed the css file and changed all instances of 40p to 40l in all files. I've cleared caches and still the problem. The problem: I see my 40l theme in views so I select it and specify a pager image and everything but when it outputs, there is no pager at all on the left or right. If i switch back to 40p, the pager is there. I'm using a fusion subtheme and thats where I have the custom directory. Like i said the, sample themes work fine but creating a custom theme doesn't ouput the pager for some reason. I also tried doing the same with the 60p theme and changing it to 60l but nothing at all displays when I do that, not even the image. Any ideas as to what might be causing the behavior?

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ppblaauw commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

#14 Did not see your issue, because it is posted in a closed issue.

You will need to adjust the css of the slideshow theme to make a horizontal theme.

That said, I can not give support for CSS customizations creating custom themes.
It would be more then a day job when I start doing that, hope you understand.

Hope this helps you further, please let me know.