//www.cryer.co.uk © 2004 and www.brainerror.net ver 1.3 © June 7,2004 
//were reference for the following Javascript slide show code 


function changeOpac(opacity, id) 
{ 
 var object = document.getElementById(id).style; 
 object.opacity = (opacity / 101); 
 object.MozOpacity = (opacity / 101); 
 object.KhtmlOpacity = (opacity / 100); 
 object.filter = "alpha(opacity=" + opacity + ")"; 
} 

function blendimage(divid, imageid, imagefile, millisec) 
{ 
 var speed = Math.round(millisec / 10); 
 var timer = 0; 

 //set the current image as background 
 document.getElementById(divid).style.backgroundImage = "url(" + document.getElementById(imageid).src + ")"; 

 //make image transparent 
 changeOpac(0, imageid); 

 //make new image 
 document.getElementById(imageid).src = imagefile; 

 //fade in image 
 for(i = 0; i <= 100; i++) 
 { 
 setTimeout("changeOpac(" + i + ",'" + imageid + "')",(timer * speed)); 
 timer++; 
 } 
} 

var slideCache = new Array(); 
function RunSlideShow(divid,imageid,imageFiles,displaySecs) 
{ 
 var imageSeparator = imageFiles.indexOf(";"); 
 var nextImage = imageFiles.substring(0,imageSeparator); 

 changeOpac(0, imageid); 
 blendimage(divid,imageid,nextImage,100); 

 var futureImages= imageFiles.substring(imageSeparator+1,imageFiles.length)+ ';' + nextImage; 
 setTimeout("RunSlideShow('"+divid+"','"+imageid+"','"+futureImages+"',"+displaySecs+")",displaySecs*1000);

 // Cache the next image to improve performance. 
 imageSeparator = futureImages.indexOf(";"); 
 nextImage = futureImages.substring(0,imageSeparator); 
 if (slideCache[nextImage] == null) 
 { 
 slideCache[nextImage] = new Image; 
 slideCache[nextImage].src = nextImage; 
 } 
}