Incompatible with Views Slideshow 7.x-3.9

I have two sites using just views_slideshow, and views_slideshow_xtra. They both broke. I have one using flexslider. It does not appear to be affected. It uses flexslider as the formatter in the view, as opposed to using views_slideshow.

I disabled and uninstalled twice, and still no luck. Flushed caches, ran update, still nothing.

The file that changed the most in the update, as best as I can discern, is views_slideshow_cycle.theme.inc. Hope that helps.

After so messing around, it is Views Slideshow Xtra Overlay that is causing my issue. I changed the format of the attachment in the view to Slideshow from Views Slideshow Xtra Overlay. The view and the slides and pager work, but my overlay doesn’t. Sorry for the bother.

Unfortunately it did not fix mine. After applying the patch, I get the same results; no overlay, slideshow does not activate and only shows the first slide, and Admin menu disappears (but I can still access admin functions like editing the view). I tried this on the existing install that originally had the issue. I also did a new clean minimal install (only the modules required) and the same behaviour happens. Is there other information I can provide that would help.

The view consists of a page display and an attachment. The page has Slideshow and fields as Format. The fields are two image fields; one for the main slide, the second is for the thumbnail pager. The preferred attachment Format: Views Slideshow Xtra Overlay has three fields Content: Title, Content: Nid, Content: Body that is supposed to be the overlay.

I tested this on https://simplytest.me/ and the 3.8 versions of Views Slideshow and Views Slideshow Extra work as intended. The 3.9 of Views Slideshow does not work with VSE 3.8. I can't apply the patch through simplytest.me. Patches appear to only work for the first project chosen and not additional modules. For some reason, if I set https://simplytest.me/ to use Veiws Slideshow as the first project and add VSE as the second, the patch does not apply. If I set VSE as the main project with the patch, and add Views Slideshow as the second project, all the dependencies do not get loaded. The libraries/jquery.cycle folder is not created and the jquery.cycle.all.js does not get installed.

Albeit, I can do some css tricks to make an overlay, eliminating the need for VSE. It is not as elegant, and still creates some issues. I wish I could get some help with this.

I guess I am the only one having issues with this. So my solution is to not use the overlay. It looks like the D8 version isn't working either. I removed the attachments with the fields title, ID and body. I included those fields in the page. I then used this css to achieve the the overlay.

#views_slideshow_cycle_teaser_section_gallery-page_3 .views-field-title{
    background: #4a4a4a none repeat scroll 0 0;
    text-align:center;
    opacity: 0.7;
    padding: 10px 30px 0px;
    position: absolute;
    width:100%;
    top: 0px;
    z-index:50;
    font-size:130%;
    	animation-name: fadeInOpacity;
	animation-iteration-count: 1;
	animation-timing-function: ease-in;
	animation-duration: 4s;
    
}

#views_slideshow_cycle_teaser_section_gallery-page_3 .views-field-title{
    text-shadow: 0px 5px 5px black;
    font-weight:700;

}

#views_slideshow_cycle_teaser_section_gallery-page_3 .views-field-body{
    background: #4a4a4a none repeat scroll 0 0;
    text-align:center;
    opacity: 0.7;
    padding: 0 30px;
    position: absolute;
    width:100%;
    top: 39.25px;

    z-index:50;
    font-size:120%;
    	animation-name: fadeInOpacity;
	animation-iteration-count: 1;
	animation-timing-function: ease-in;
	animation-duration: 4s;
}
#views_slideshow_cycle_teaser_section_gallery-page_3 .views-field-body p{
    text-shadow: 0px 5px 5px black;
    font-weight:600;
    opacity:1;
}

here is a link to the revised slideshow http://www.kendalbrown.com/animals