I was looking on the JED the other day to find a good slide show tool for our web site. Everything I looked at seemed to be based on jQuery 
. Not that I don’t like jQuery; just after experiencing headaches with MooTools and jQuery integrating on the one page I have decided to stick with MooTools based plugins.
Eventually I just put one together using this great script from Electric Prism. I just bundled it all up as a Joomla! plugin for 1.7 for easy integration. Check out our Brisbane Naturopath site if you want to see it. It’s half way down the page under Where Are You Located?
It’s completely unsupported though as I haven’t finished it off ….
I agree re not using two JS libraries on the same page. I usually won’t use jQuery based extensions on Joomla sites for that reason and so also had trouble finding a slideshow. I ended up having to write custom scripts. i don’t know how to write them into a plug-in though. Kudos to you!
You do have a problem with probably just the css here. The slideshow controls disappear when I move the cursor over them because they are outside the slideshow area. (FireFox 8.0, IE8)
Thanks JXL!
CSS is not really my strong point!
I have sent you an email with the plugin package that you’re welcome to have a hack around with. It’s not really ready for public distribution yet but might be something you can use.
yeah, just css. something like this would work:
#show {
position: relative;
}
.slideshow-controller {
background: url(controller.png) no-repeat;
height: 48px; left: 50%; margin: 0 0 0 -122px;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
bottom: 4px;
width: 244px;
z-index: 10000;
}
Thanks for the package. That will come in handy. When it does, or as soon as I have time, whichever comes first, I’ll send you any updates I might make myself.