Hey guys,

Woohoo - glfusion 1.6 is out - awesome work!

I'd like to start using moorotator as more of a banner ad type system and was wondering if there was a way to randomize the images and whether this would be difficult to implement?

Do we have any hacks like this already?

- Marco

Bump.

Would this require a change in one of the mootools javascript files?

- Marco

The way it is written, I don't think it can be made random, since the js is only half the equation. The other half is the html specified after the js call:

My suggestion would be to use one of the freely available image rotator scripts available on the net, unless you can persuade Mark Howard to whip up a new one!

Thx!

Eric

Gus,

Yes, I was looking at a few non-integrated scripts but it's so much cleaner and better to use the stuff that comes integrated with glFusion.

I'm gonna check the mootools website next and see if they have something already whipped up since I would think banner add random/rotation would be a pretty popular request.

I guess my next question is, everything that is offered at the mootools website could be used on a glfusion website, right?

- Marco

Also, what is so great about the moorotator is the fading effect :-)

- Marco

I guess my next question is, everything that is offered at the mootools website could be used on a glfusion website, right?

glFusion v1.1.6 and previous use Mootools v1.11 to power the widget goodness. In future versions of glFusion, thanks to Mark Howard's tremendous efforts, we will be moving on to the latest and greatest version of MT, v1.2. There are some major differences between MT v1.11 and v1.2, and that has necessitated converting all our current MT based functionality to this new version (class names, etc. were changed by the MT developers).

So, looking at MT's site, I would probably say that the stuff you find there isn't currently compatible. But if you hunt around the net, I'm sure you could find a script that is MT v1.11 based (for the time being). You're probably better off though looking forward to MT v1.2 compatibility in glF, and looking for scripts based on that. Mark Howard is close to completing the MT rewrite for glF, and I'm sure we could use more beta testers.

Thx!

Eric

Quote by: Geiss

I guess my next question is, everything that is offered at the mootools website could be used on a glfusion website, right?

glFusion v1.1.6 and previous use Mootools v1.11 to power the widget goodness. In future versions of glFusion, thanks to Mark Howard's tremendous efforts, we will be moving on to the latest and greatest version of MT, v1.2. There are some major differences between MT v1.11 and v1.2, and that has necessitated converting all our current MT based functionality to this new version (class names, etc. were changed by the MT developers).

So, looking at MT's site, I would probably say that the stuff you find there isn't currently compatible. But if you hunt around the net, I'm sure you could find a script that is MT v1.11 based (for the time being). You're probably better off though looking forward to MT v1.2 compatibility in glF, and looking for scripts based on that. Mark Howard is close to completing the MT rewrite for glF, and I'm sure we could use more beta testers.

Thx!

Eric

Hi -

First - the other thing to consider is that I'm not sure what elements are included in the MT 1.11 that ships with glFusion, I suspect that whatever dependencies that we are using in the current widgets/core are stripped out. Can't tell easily, it's compressed.

On the other point - agreed - moorotator cannot be easily modified to present images in a random order, it's got a very 'concrete-sequential view of the world', however I am presently utilizing the following script as a replacement for the older code behind the MG slideshow: autotag:

http://code.google.com/p/slideshow

This can be configured to work with a set of images in a way that is very similar to moorotator, and also present the images in a random order. Consider the following options:

captions=false
controller=false
delay=(specify in msec)
duration=(specify in msec)
loop=true
overlap=true
random=true
thumbnails=false
titles=false

Now - make sure the images are the same dimensions, otherwise when they overlay each other, you can see larger images behind the smaller images as the overlap/fade effect is implemented.

Downside? Won't work with MT 1.11 which is what currently 'ships' with glFusion, but think 'iframe'. ;^) Let me know if you need further clues ...

First - the other thing to consider is that I'm not sure what elements are included in the MT 1.11 that ships with glFusion, I suspect that whatever dependencies that we are using in the current widgets/core are stripped out. Can't tell easily, it's compressed.

IIRC, we included the full MT v1.11 library (in compressed form), as we determined that we did not know what additional things folks would build.

Thx!

Eric

mst3kroqs,

Ok, thanks a lot - I think you've given me enough info to get started on something that can be adapted to our needs! Thanks - VERY helpful! You get a "+" for it ;-)

- Marco