Flickering "feature content" pull down thumbs problem

[carnuke]

Just installed latest version 3.2.0 on wordpress 2.7 with no other plugins and I have the plugin working correctly. However there is one problem: When I click the 'featured content' link at the top of the flash display the images come down, but they are dancing up and down in an erratic jerky way. The flash transitions are all correct, so I guess my flash player is ok.

I'm using one category to pull all 5 images with everything else as default settings. Changing settings and ammounts of feature posts does not resolve this problem.

Can you please help?

Thanks...

[carnuke]

I would be grateful if someone could give an opinion and possible solution to this flickering problem. I can now show a URL here http://myzerowaste.com Pull down the featured content link and see the thumbs dancing when you hover over them.

In addition there is another fault. I have to show 4 page IDs to show 5 images. If I show all 5 IDs, I get an extra page showing. This has happened on 2 sites now with the latest version.

Please help!!

Thanks

[admin]

try to disable plugins

[carnuke]

On my test site I deactivated ALL plugins except FCG. The fault is still there.

[admin]

If we are talking about this site http://myzerowaste.com
I still see wp-spamfree plugin, also try to change theme, if it works on default theme without flickering - theme problem

[carnuke]

Thanks for your comment admin. It's not that URL, you need to append the address with /magazine This is my test site. You will see that there is an error on the home page as there is a call to an undefined funtion. That's because all plugins are deactivated, except FCG

If it's "The theme" can you say what kind of problems to look for in the theme design?

In the theme there is a built in menu with sfhover. It has java script like this. Could that be the problem?

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sfHover = function() {
   if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return false;
   var sfEls = document.getElementById("nav").getElementsByTagName("li");

   // if you only have one main menu - delete the line below //
   var sfEls1 = document.getElementById("subnav").getElementsByTagName("li");
   //

   for (var i=0; i<sfEls.length; i++) {
      sfEls[i].onmouseover=function() {
         this.className+=" sfhover";
      }
      sfEls[i].onmouseout=function() {
         this.className=this.className.replace(new RegExp(" sfhover\\b"), "");
      }
   }

   // if you only have one main menu - delete the "for" loop below //
   for (var i=0; i<sfEls1.length; i++) {
      sfEls1[i].onmouseover=function() {
         this.className+=" sfhover1";
      }
      sfEls1[i].onmouseout=function() {
         this.className=this.className.replace(new RegExp(" sfhover1\\b"), "");
      }
   }
   //

}
if (window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload", sfHover);


Thanks.

[admin]

In the theme there is a built in menu with sfhover. It has java script like this. Could that be the problem?

no this can not cause the problem..
but I see through firefox error console : OA_show is not defined.
this error in not related to fcg, this is showing error for this part of code

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<li id="ads">
      <h2>Advertisement</h2>

      <script type='text/javascript'><!--// <![CDATA[
    /* [id35] My Zero Waste - Vertical 120 x 600 */
    OA_show(35);
// ]]> --></script><noscript><a target='_blank' href='http://ethicalads.net/adserver/www/delivery/ck.php?n=8fa6090'><img border='0' alt='' src='http://ethicalads.net/adserver/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=35&amp;n=8fa6090' /></a></noscript>
               </li>


[abaddonislord]

This issue is Theme related. Specifically the .thumbnail entry in the theme .css file will impact the thumbnails on the carousel. in green-blog/style.css find the section

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.thumbnail
{
   float: left;
   margin: 0px;
   padding: 5px;
}

Change the padding to 0. You may want to pad the margins to separate the thumbnails. As far as I could tell the vertical padding is what the problem is here. Hope this helps.

[carnuke]

@ abaddonislord you are right, the padding is the problem. When set to 0 it resolved the flicker problem. Good call. Now I just need to find a way to space the thumbmails without padding.

Thanks.