horizontal scroll behaviour on carousel

[alasdair17]

@arminunruh ah yeah no worries.

yes to needing captions and numbers.

[arminunruh]

ok i will think about how to code this, maybe i can add a feature to the carousel to just have a horizontal scroll

[alasdair17]

@arminunruh thank you!

[arminunruh]

hey so

two things i thought about:

• on a windows pc, often people cant scroll horizontally, unless they have a horizontal scrollbar.

• why dont you use transition slide, and "free drag" option?
  thats like scrolling horizontally at least on a touchdevice. on a mac or pc you need to drag left and right instead
  

[arminunruh]

look, i coded the basic version of it:
https://capture.dropbox.com/nDFR4VaLjIBBuNal

however, i would still need to work on the other features to be compatible like:

• left and right buttons
• dots as navigation underneath
• click to navigate
• left/right cursors
• setting for gaps between images
• pause/play youtube/vimeo videos

i dont have much time for this at the moment.
not sure when i can do it

also: how will people even know they have to scroll horizontally?
you'd probably totally need either "dots as navigation underneath", or "left and right buttons" or "left/right cursors"

[alasdair17]

thanks @arminunruh! could you release an update or send me a version to try it out? I'm getting a lend of an ipad so I can test it on there too. I am seeing the client today and I will mention this to him.

[alasdair17]

hey @arminunruh really really sorry but I just spoke with my client and I explained to him the drawbacks of the horizontal scroll and we have decided to just go with a simple vertical layout, it makes more sense for what he needs so we won't be using the horizontal scroll or carousel. Sorry if I wasted your time. I hope the horizontal scroll on carousel will come in useful for something else.

[arminunruh]

ok

i think the horizontal scroll is a viable option if you also use dots as navigation below, or arrow buttons

[arminunruh]

hey if you update lay theme and carousel addon, you will now have the "horizontal scroll" as transition type when you edit a carousel.

also its now compatible with the other carousel settings:
left and right buttons
dots as navigation underneath
click to navigate
left/right cursors
setting for gaps between images
pause/play youtube/vimeo videos

compared to "sliding" transition type, the settings are much less

[alasdair17]

@arminunruh hey, thank you so much for working on this despite no longer requiring it for this website I am working on. Hopefully it will come in useful for another website. I hope I didn't take too much time away from you when you could have worked on something else.