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Image Slideshow script - I need to be able to pause an image 1

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Hi,
I've got the following javascript which sets up an image slideshow effect. Basically the images fade from one to another. What I need to do is to be able to pause the show when the user puts there mouse pointer over the image and then continue the show once the mouse is moved away.

Can anyone help. I have included the script below:

<script>
var SlideShowSpeed = 3000;

var CrossFadeDuration = 3;

var Picture = new Array(); // don't change this
var Caption = new Array(); // don't change this

Picture[1] = 'images/slideshow1.jpg';
Picture[2] = 'images/slideshow2.jpg';
Picture[3] = 'images/slideshow3.jpg';

Caption[1] = "French Polisher in Nottingham";
Caption[2] = "Expert and Affordable Service";
Caption[3] = "All Aspects of Polishing Work Undertaken";

var tss;
var iss;
var jss = 1;
var pss = Picture.length-1;

var preLoad = new Array();
for (iss = 1; iss < pss+1; iss++){
preLoad[iss] = new Image();
preLoad[iss].src = Picture[iss];}

function runSlideShow(){
if (document.all){
document.images.PictureBox.style.filter="blendTrans(duration=2)";
document.images.PictureBox.style.filter="blendTrans(duration=CrossFadeDuration)";
document.images.PictureBox.filters.blendTrans.Apply();}
document.images.PictureBox.src = preLoad[jss].src;
if (document.getElementById) document.getElementById("CaptionBox").innerHTML= Caption[jss];
if (document.all) document.images.PictureBox.filters.blendTrans.Play();
jss = jss + 1;
if (jss > (pss)) jss=1;
tss = setTimeout('runSlideShow()', SlideShowSpeed);
}

</script>
 
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var stopShow;

on the img onmouseover, set the stopShow variable to 1
on the img onmouseout, set the stopShow variable to 0

in your runSlideShow function, check the value of stopShow and only move on if ==0

Cheers.
 
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Hi, thanks a lot for your reply. I'm a complete newbie with javascript and really haven't got a clue what I'm doing. The script above is something someone else provided for me. Can you show exactly what code needs to be put in.
Thanks a lot.
 
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hi

you will have an <img id="PictureBox" name="PictureBox"> tag in your page somewhere

add to this onmouseover="javascript:stopShow=1;" onmouseout="javascript=stopShow=0;" thus:

<img id="PictureBox" name="PictureBox" onmouseover="javascript:stopShow=1;" onmouseout="javascript=stopShow=0;" >

change your function to add an outer 'if' statement thus:

function runSlideShow(){

if (stopShow==0) //only do the do if not paused
{
//your existing stuff goes here
}

}

cheers
 
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oops, sorry
forgot to mention that the stopShow variable should be declared within the script tag, but outside of you function ie it is a page level variable, available throughout the page, as opposed to a function level variable which is available only within the function.

<script>

var stopShow;

//other variable declared

function runSlideShow()
{
//etc
}

</script>
 
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arst06d, you made a typo.
image tag should be
<img id="PictureBox" name="PictureBox" onmouseover="javascript:stopShow=1;" onmouseout="javascript:stopShow=0;" >

--Chessbot
 
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actually, onmouseover and onmouseout should not include the 'javascript:' oart at all, as these are automatically evaluated as Javascript.

--Chessbot
 
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Hi, thanks very much for your replies.

Sorry to be a total pain but I've tried that out as you suggested and although I don't get any errors, the slideshow doesn't actually run anymore. It just sticks on the first image of the show.

Any ideas??

Thanks.
 
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OK - heres a bodge of your code that works for me ...
main chnages are:

initialise the stopShow variable to 0 - sorry, I forgot!
use setInteval instead of setTimeout

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1">
<meta name="vs_targetSchema" content=" <script>
var stopShow = 0;

var SlideShowSpeed = 3000;

var CrossFadeDuration = 3;

var Picture = new Array(); // don't change this
var Caption = new Array(); // don't change this

Picture[1] = 'jfdi_logo.gif';
Picture[2] = '4.jpg';
Picture[3] = 'b4thu.jpg';

Caption[1] = "French Polisher in Nottingham";
Caption[2] = "Expert and Affordable Service";
Caption[3] = "All Aspects of Polishing Work Undertaken";

var tss;
var iss;
var jss = 1;
var pss = Picture.length-1;

var preLoad = new Array();
for (iss = 1; iss < pss+1; iss++){
preLoad[iss] = new Image();
preLoad[iss].src = Picture[iss];}

function runSlideShow(){
//alert(stopShow);
if (stopShow==0){
if (document.all){
document.images.PictureBox.style.filter="blendTrans(duration=2)";
document.images.PictureBox.style.filter="blendTrans(duration=CrossFadeDuration)";
document.images.PictureBox.filters.blendTrans.Apply();}
document.images.PictureBox.src = preLoad[jss].src;
if (document.getElementById) document.getElementById("CaptionBox").innerHTML= Caption[jss];
if (document.all) document.images.PictureBox.filters.blendTrans.Play();
jss = jss + 1;
if (jss > (pss)) jss=1;
//window.setTimeout('runSlideShow()', SlideShowSpeed);
}
}

</script>
</head>
<body onload="window.setInterval('runSlideShow()', SlideShowSpeed);" >
<IMG alt="" src="" id="PictureBox" name="PictureBox" onmouseover="javascript:stopShow=1;" onmouseout="javascript:stopShow=0;">
</body>
</html>


cheers
 
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add
Code: 
<div id="CaptionBox"></div>
under the IMG tag

--Chessbot
 
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That worked a treat. Thanks a lot guys, especially arst06d.

Cheers
 
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