Question

I’m using the cycle plugin to bind some functions before and after a slide is shown, this works fine using the before and after callbacks but the functions are also fired when the plugin initially loads, here’s a simplified version of the code:

$(function() {

    $('.slider').cycle({
        before : function() {
            alert('this shouldn\'t appear on cycle load');             
        },
        after: function() {
            alert('this shouldn\'t appear on cycle load');             
        }           
    });

});​

See JS Fiddle for example. The alerts are shown right after the page loads and also before and after each slide transition, is there a way to prevent this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You should be able to specify skipInitializationCallbacks: true (undocumented) in your options to avoid getting the callbacks on startup.

Fiddle