I'm creating a plugin for adding an image slideshow into the text area. As you can see from the attachment it's a vicious HACK of the existing image plugin. Allow the user to upload an image, set a caption, then insert this into the slideshow.
I've got the general functionality working and I'm pretty sure I can insert it into the editor text area without too much difficulty. I'll be using mootools and Slideshow2 from google code ( http://code.google.com/p/slideshow/ ) for the guts of the slideshow.
Now I want to address the "preview" area. Instead of this scrollbar box, I would like to have a section of type "image" that allows me to show just the first image in the slideshow at a specific width and height. I can't quite figure out how this preview section is currently getting setup though. How do you assign a width and height to the image within the preview box? How do you set the width of the preview box? Is there a type "image" for content on a plugin? Or should I just stick with html? Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Wed, 01/13/2010 - 15:47
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