Hi,

I am the maintainer of Views Slideshow Xtra, which provides overlay support for Views Slideshow. I was going to start working on a Drupal 8 port of that module.

Have you any thoughts on adding the overlay support, or have you considered adding overlay support to the Views Slideshow Module? If that is the case, I would not need to port Views Slideshow Xtra to D8.

Also, I would like to create a Views Slideshow example module that provides examples of pre-configured slideshows. Have you an idea if that should be a separate module, or perhaps included in the Drupal 8 Examples module?

Thanks,

captaindav

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I have moved forward with creating a Drupal 8 version of Views Slideshow Xtra. A D8 alpha version has been created, that has a working Views Slideshow Example sub-module. This module is useful as a "Starter Kit" for Views Slideshow. When the Views Slideshow Examples module is installed, a Slide content type, Slideshow taxonomy, and Slideshow View are created. Next I will proceed with working on a Views Slideshow Overlay sub-module, to provide overlay support.

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I just started looking into porting the Views Slideshow Xtra Overlay module to Drupal 8, and noticed that Cycle2 has overlay support. This overlay support is not as robust as what was provided in Views Slideshow Xtra Overlay, e.g. VSX provides support for making the overlays clickable, and has an option to delay slide transition if the user is moving the mouse pointer over the slide, to prevent the situation where the user goes to click on an overlay link, but the slide transitions before the user is able to click on the link.

I think it makes sense for Drupal 8 Views Slideshow to implement the Cycle2 library, and its limited overlay support. Additional overlay features could be added to either Cycle2 or Views Slideshow directly, thus eliminating the need for Views Slideshow Xtra. This idea is mentioned in https://www.drupal.org/node/1801332 Comment #20.

For the Views Slideshow Examples (starter kit) module, which was previously a sub-module of Views Slideshow Xtra, I think it would be better to include that as a sub-module of Views Slideshow instead. I have a working Drupal 8 version of the Views Slideshow Examples module as a sub-module in the Views Slideshow Xtra project version 8.x-4.0-alpha. Could we proceed with making this a sub-module of Views Slideshow, and then deprecate Views Slideshow Xtra? That way Views Slideshow users would have easy access an example/starter kit module, downloading an additional module would no longer be required.

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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)