Question

I’m new to this forum and I have a sticky problem with the website that I’m building for my client. I am having trouble with my MooTools Slideshow. I have a page with 4 Spry tabs and 3 of them have slideshows. I’ve set up the page for multiple slideshows, but only the first tab works correctly. These are 2 issues I’m having:

1. The thumbnails work properly for the first tab, but for the other tabs they seem to stack upon one another and flutter when you mouseover.

2. When you switch to a different tab, you get a smaller photo artifact for a couple of seconds in the right corner of the slideshow screen (I have a feeling this will go away when #1 is resolved).

I was given this help from another forum:
The issue is probably that slideshow can’t calculate dimensions properly when it is hidden. It’s really a general issue with javascript/DOM-manipulation: when an element is set as display:none – like the hidden tabs – nodes inside of them have no height/width. The workaround would be to initialize each slideshow once the tab is visible.

Being a js implementer and not a coder, I don’t really know how to accomplish this or even if it will work. How would I initialize each slideshow on tab visibility?

Here is where the website can be viewed:
http://www.interimdesigngroup.com/threesprings/area.shtml

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks, Nektar 72

Answer 1

Replace slideshow initialization for all three tabs with the following:

<script>
    var activeSlideShow = false;
    var activateSlideShow = function(el) {
        if(activeSlideShow) {
            activeSlideShow.destroy();
        }
        switch(el.getProperty('tabindex')){
            case '0':
                activeSlideShow = new Slideshow('balch',
                    {
                        '1.jpg': { caption: '' },
                        '2.jpg': { caption: '' },
                        '3.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '4.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '5.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '6.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '7.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '8.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '9.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '10.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '11.jpg': { caption: '' }
                    }, 
                    {
                        captions: { delay: 1000 },
                        delay: 3000,
                        height: 467,
                        hu: 'images/balch/',
                        width: 350
                    }
                );
            break;
            case '3':
                activeSlideShow = new Slideshow('poi', 
                    {
                        '1.jpg': { caption: 'Blue Ridge' }, 
                        '2.jpg': { caption: 'Blue Ridge' }, 
                        '3.jpg': { caption: 'Blue Ridge' }, 
                        '4.jpg': { caption: 'Blue Ridge' }, 
                        '5.jpg': { caption: 'Blue Ridge' }, 
                        '6.jpg': { caption: 'Blue Ridge' }, 
                        '7.jpg': { caption: 'Grouse Valley' }, 
                        '8.jpg': { caption: 'Grouse Valley' },
                        '9.jpg': { caption: 'Grouse Lake' },
                        '10.jpg': { caption: 'Wildflowers in Yokohl Valley' }, 
                        '11.jpg': { caption: 'Wildflowers in Yokohl Valley' }, 
                        '12.jpg': { caption: 'Wildflowers in Yokohl Valley' }, 
                        '13.jpg': { caption: 'Wildflowers in Yokohl Valley' }, 
                        '14.jpg': { caption: 'Tule River' }, 
                        '15.jpg': { caption: 'Tule River' }, 
                        '16.jpg': { caption: 'Tule River' }, 
                        '17.jpg': { caption: 'Tule River' }, 
                        '18.jpg': { caption: 'Tule River' }, 
                        '19.jpg': { caption: 'Tule River' }, 
                        '20.jpg': { caption: 'Tule River' }, 
                        '21.jpg': { caption: 'Tule River' }, 
                        '22.jpg': { caption: 'Tule River' }, 
                        '23.jpg': { caption: 'Dome Rock' }
                    },
                    {
                        captions: { delay: 1000 },
                        delay: 3000, 
                        height: 300, 
                        hu: 'images/poi/', 
                        width: 400 
                    }
                );
            break;
            case '1':
            default:
                activeSlideShow = new Slideshow('springville',
                    {
                        '1.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '2.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '3.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '4.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '5.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '6.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '7.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '8.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '9.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '10.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '11.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '12.jpg': { caption: '' }, 
                        '13.jpg': { caption: '' }
                    }, 
                    { 
                        captions: { delay: 1000 }, 
                        delay: 3000, 
                        height: 300, 
                        hu: 'images/springville/', 
                        width: 400 
                    }
                );
            break;
        }
    }
    window.addEvent('domready', function(){
        var tabs = $$('#TabbedPanels1 ul li');
        tabs.addEvent('click', function(e){
            activateSlideShow(this);
        });
        activateSlideShow(tabs[0]);
    });
</script>