//configure the below five variables to change the style of the scroller
var slidesDelay='3000' //delay between msg scrolls. 3000=4 seconds.
var slidesRunning = 0;
var slidesStopped = 0;
var slidesStopCompleted = 0;
var blendDone=true;
var slideIndex=0;

function slideFade(){
	if (!blendDone){
		setTimeout("slideFade()",1)
	}else{
		setTimeout("slideFade()",slidesDelay);
		if (slideIndex==home_slides.length-1){
			slideIndex=0;
		}else{
			slideIndex++;
		}
		blendimage(slideIndex);
	}
}

function startSlides(){
	// make sure function doesn't fun twice
	if (slidesRunning != 0){
		return;
	}
	slideIndex=home_slides.length-1;
	slidesRunning++
	for(var j=0;j<home_slides.length;j++){
		MM_preloadImages("../../images/features/"+home_slides[j].split("|")[0]);
	}
	slideFade();
}

function blendimage(theIndex) {
	blendDone=false;
    var speed = 6;
    var timer = 0;
    
    //set the current image as background
    document.getElementById('blenddiv').style.backgroundImage = "url(" + document.getElementById('blendimage').src + ")";
    
    //make image transparent
    changeOpac(0, 'blendimage');
    
    //make new image
    document.getElementById('blendimage').src = "../../images/features/"+home_slides[theIndex].split("|")[0];
    document.getElementById('blendimage').alt = home_slides[theIndex].split("|")[1];
    //slideFade in image
    for(var t = 0; t <= 100; t++) {
        setTimeout("changeOpac(" + t + ",'blendimage')",(timer * speed));
        timer++;
        if(t==100){
	        blendDone=true;
        }
    }
}
function changeOpac(opacity, id) {
    var object = document.getElementById(id).style;
	opacity = (opacity == 100)?99.999:opacity;
    object.opacity = (opacity / 100);
    object.MozOpacity = (opacity / 100);
    object.KhtmlOpacity = (opacity / 100);
    object.filter = "alpha(opacity=" + opacity + ")";
}
document.write('<div style="background-image: url(../../images/features/'+home_slides[0].split("|")[0]+'); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 569px; height: 340px;" id="blenddiv">');
document.write('<img src="../../images/features/'+home_slides[0].split("|")[0]+'" alt="'+home_slides[0].split("|")[1]+'" width="569" height="340" border="0" id="blendimage" style="filter: alpha(opacity=0); -moz-opacity: 0; opacity: 0;">')
document.write('</div>');

startSlides();

function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}

function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.0
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && document.getElementById) x=document.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}