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I developed an application that uses Autoscroll and combines some other plugins and custom jquery. I am looking to harness the autoscrolling a little bit better. The main issue that I am seeing is that when a video or slideshow (Flash slideshowpro, or youtube embed) feature is clicked and the video or slideshow begins playing in a simple lightbox (custom developed - iframe), the video/slideshow is very choppy. I believe (but not sure) that this is due to the browsers resources being used up on the autoscroll functionality. When a lightbox is popped up, the canvas is still autoscrolling a bit, which seems to hurt usability quite a bit.

You may view this app in a development environment at http://dev.bluestarcamps.com/wall-beta/

I am ultimately looking for a way to PAUSE or STOP the autoscrolling when a lighbox element is popped up, believing that this will help tremendously with the playing of video/flash.

Not sure how to accomplish this, but ideally something like

1. $(".trigger").click(function(){
2.       AUTOSCROLL.pause();
   
3. };
   

I have a feeling this would be a combination of modifying the plugin to include a pause function, then calling that function when element is clicked, but am at a loss as to how to accomplish this.

I would consider myself intermediate at jquery/javascript in general - I'm pretty good at implementing and combining plugins, and writing basic stuff, but this is over my head.

I have reached out to the original developer of this plugin without any luck. Any JQuery wizards have any advice?? Very appreciated!