jQuery Rambling Slider

The jQuery Rambling Slider is a CoffeeScript improved modified version of the jQuery Nivo Slider by Gilbert Pellegrom, which is "The Most Awesome jQuery Image Slider". It includes some new options and methods to give the slider the ability to adapt different image sizes, flash support and transitions extensions.

You can find more about it on my blog or on this repository's wiki.

How to use the jQuery Rambling Slider

The compiled JavaScript and CSS files, are in the assets/ directory. Those are assets/javascripts/jquery.rambling.slider.js and assets/stylesheets/jquery.rambling.slider.css for development, as well as assets/javascripts/jquery.rambling.slider.min.js and assets/stylesheets/jquery.rambling.slider.min.css for production. The images for the different themes are under assets/images.

Include the files (either development or production) in your html, and assuming you have something that resembles this:

<div id="slider">
  <img src="images/image1.jpg" alt="image1"/>
  <a href="#link"><img src="images/image2.jpg" alt="image2"/></a>
  <img src="images/image3.jpg" alt="image3"/>
  <img src="images/image4.jpg" alt="image4"/>
</div>

You can then initialize your slider with:

$(window).load(function(){
  $('#slider').ramblingSlider();
});

Note that it's set up in the load event from window, to ensure that the images are already loaded.

Examples

There are usage examples available in the examples/ directory. You might want to see default.html, adaptive.html and flash.html.

Issues

Please submit any issue you have or any bug that you find with the slider to the project's issues on GitHub.

Features

Among others, the new features added on top of the Nivo Slider include:

• adaptImages. Default value: false. Description: When set to true, uses images instead of backgrounds for the animations, and scales the images to the maximum dimension available.
• useLargerImage. Default value: true. Description: When set to true, uses the larger image dimensions as the maximum dimension available. Otherwise, it uses the slider width as the maximum available.
• alignBottom. Default value: false. Description: When set to true, aligns the bottom right corner of the scaled images with the bottom right corner of the slider. Otherwise, the images are aligned to the top left of the slider.
• Methods stop, start can be called via $('#slider').ramblingSlider('stop') and allow method chaining.
• Methods option and effect were added. Allow method chaining when calling the setters.
• Method destroy was added and allows method chaining.
• Methods previousSlide, nextSlide and slide were added and allow method chaining.
• Method theme was added and allows method chaining.
• Some new transitions: foldLeft, rolloverLeft, rolloverRight, slideInRight, sliceUpRandom, sliceDownRandom, sliceUpDownRandom, foldRandom, sliceUpOutIn, sliceUpInOut, sliceDownOutIn, sliceDownInOut, sliceUpDownOutIn, sliceUpDownInOut, sliceFadeOutIn, sliceFadeInOut, foldOutIn, foldInOut, boxRainOutIn, boxRainInOut, boxRainGrowOutIn, boxRainGrowInOut.
• Support for transitions extensibility. See Adding and Overriding Transitions.
• Support for flash elements.
• fadeOut, slideInRight and slideInLeft transitions from image to flash object.
• slideInRight and slideInLeft transitions from one flash object to another one.

Supported jQuery versions

The jQuery Rambling Slider has been tested with the following jQuery Releases:

• 2.0.x
• 1.10.x
• 1.9.x
• 1.8.x
• 1.7.x

Version 0.4.0 drops support for versions:

• 1.6.x
• 1.5.x
• 1.4.x
• 1.3.x

For more info on the jQuery versions supported go to the Supported jQuery Versions page.

Contributing

CoffeeScript and Gruntfile

If you're interested in modifying or improving this script, you'll need to resolve these dependencies first:

• NodeJS (apt-get install nodejs, brew install node for Mac OSX)
• Node Package Manager (apt-get install npm, comes with node in Mac OSX)
• CoffeeScript (npm install -g coffee-script)

You will need to run this inside the project's root directory:

npm install

You can run the build like this:

grunt
# or
grunt default

Unit testing

To run the tests, just run:

grunt spec

License and copyright

Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Edgar Gonzalez

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.