Question on controls

[malverd]

I haven't downloaded the Photonic yet, because I have some questions.

I viewed to Photonic page for using Wordpress Galleries. Is there an option to have a pause button, or next and previous button to control the slideshow?

Thanks

[sayontan]

No, there aren't such options at this point.

Photonic's power is in handling third party providers (Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug etc), and if you wish to handle just WP galleries then you might find other plugins help you better.

[malverd]

No, there aren't such options at this point.

Photonic's power is in handling third party providers (Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug etc), and if you wish to handle just WP galleries then you might find other plugins help you better.

Any plugins that you can recommend?

[photobia]

Amazingly, there is a way to pause... with cursor hover over picture. I placed this tiny nip of code inside the photonic segment of code in the gallery itself (html tab)...

<pre><code>SLIDESHOW: </code><code>TO PAUSE JUST HOVER MOUSE OVER PICTURE.</code></pre>

[gallery style='strip-below' thumb_width='150' thumb_height='150' slideshow_height='520'
$box.hover(function() { $box.pause(); }, function() { $box.resume(); });
]

Just Hover the cursor over your slideshow and it should pause.

The first part between <pre> is just my text telling the visitor that the main image is going to be a slideshow, and how to pause it.
Then come the photonic gallery parameters. You can design that any way you like. Then we get to all the box hover stuff, then close the photonic segment with ]. That's it !

source? Some smart folks at... http://tobia.github.com/Pause/
-C

[sayontan]

You don't need any code for that, I believe. My understanding is that the default code for JQuery Cycle, which is what I use to display the in-page slideshow automatically pauses on hover. See here: http://aquoid.com/news/plugins/photonic/wp-galleries/. There is a running slideshow there, wherein hovering over the main image pauses the slideshow.