Question

I have made a slider jquery plugin. The slider starts automatically in autoplay, but when the mouse hovers the slider it stops. There’s a function for this, of course.

My problem comes when i have a movie inside one of the slides. if the movie is playing, i want to stop the autoplay completely even if the mouse isnt hovering the slider.

How can I call the “stop_autoslide” function inside the plugin, from outside it’s code?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could bind a custom event inside your slider-plugin.

$(sliderObject).bind("stop_slide", stop_autoslide);

And then trigger it from anywhere with:

$(".mySlider").trigger("stop_slide");

Depending on how your plugin works you might need .live() instead of bind.