tab/slideshow functionality also for overlay/gallery plugin ? Created Feb 14, 2010

I have been trying to do so, but haven't been able to reconcile the differences in structure between what the tabs call for in terms of loaded content versus how loaded elements are called in the overlay/gallery context.

If there were a way to call the tabs/slideshow plugins from inside a gallery of items, that'd be rad. I would love to have a play/pause trigger in there and be able to recycle the gallery's next/prev buttons using the tabs plugin, but it all just breaks everytime I've tried.

Anyone else?

Anyone ever figure this one out????

I am also looking to do a slideshow using overlay. Anybody have success yet?

Seen this. Anyone try and succeed?

No more Overlay Gallery plugin

The previous jQuery Tools version had an Overlay Gallery plugin for
 making a "lightbox" type of slideshow. It didn't fit with the rest
 of the library mainly because of its hard-coded logic. So it was
 dropped! Something similar can be achieved with the the Slideshow
 plugin and placing it on Overlay. 

It's pretty simple...

var overlay = jQuery("#ProductImageOverlay").overlay({...});
var clickcounter = 0;
jQuery("#ProductImageSlideTabs").tabs("#ProductImageSlides > div", {
	fadeOutSpeed: "slow",
	rotate: true,
	onClick: function(event, index) {
		if (clickcounter > 0) {
			overlay.eq(0).overlay().load();
		}
		clickcounter++;
	}
}).slideshow({...});

You just have to remove one line in the tabs.js:

if (i === current) { return self; }

or (if you have multiple usages) replace this line with:

if (i === current  && conf.enableCurrentTab === false) { return self;}

and add the param "conf.enableCurrentTab: false" as default in the tabs.js.

I'm also making a slideshow, with different-sized images in an overlay. The solution provided by brokemeister worked for me, with the exception that I needed to change onClick to onBeforeClick. Otherwise the first initialization of the overlay would show all of the images until I did a next() or previous() call.

I also didn't need to modify the jQuery Tools library (v1.2.5) for this to work.