// when the DOM is ready...
$(document).ready(function() {

    var $panels = $('#slider .scrollContainer .panel');
    var $container = $('#slider .scrollContainer');

    // if false, we'll float all the panels left and fix the width 
    // of the container
    var horizontal = true;

    // float the panels left if we're going horizontal
    if (horizontal) {
        $panels.css({
            'float': 'left',
            'position': 'relative' // IE fix to ensure overflow is hidden
        });

        // calculate a new width for the container (so it holds all panels)
        $container.css('width', $panels[0].offsetWidth * $panels.length);
    }

    // collect the scroll object, at the same time apply the hidden overflow
    // to remove the default scrollbars that will appear
    var $scroll = $('#slider .scroll').css({
        'overflow': 'hidden',
        'width': '884px'
    });

    var $slider = $('#slider')

    // apply our left + right buttons
    $scroll
		.before('<div id="bt-l" class="scrollButtons left" href="#" title="Previous"><span>Previous</span></div>')
		.before('<div id="bt-r" class="scrollButtons right" href="#" title="Next"><span>Next</span></div>');




    // offset is used to move to *exactly* the right place, since I'm using
    // padding on my example, I need to subtract the amount of padding to
    // the offset.	Try removing this to get a good idea of the effect
    var offset = parseInt((horizontal ?
			$container.css('paddingTop') :
			$container.css('paddingLeft'))
			|| 0) * -1;

    var scrollOptions = {
        target: $scroll, // the element that has the overflow

        // can be a selector which will be relative to the target
        items: $panels,

        //navigation: '.thumb a',

        // selectors are NOT relative to document, i.e. make sure they're unique
        prev: 'div.left',
        next: 'div.right',

        // allow the scroll effect to run both directions
        axis: 'xy',

        //onAfter: trigger, // our final callback

        offset: offset,

        // duration of the sliding effect
        duration: 500,

        // easing - can be used with the easing plugin: 
        // http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/
        easing: 'swing'
    };

    // apply serialScroll to the slider - we chose this plugin because it 
    // supports// the indexed next and previous scroll along with hooking 
    // in to our navigation.
    $('#slider').serialScroll(scrollOptions);

    // now apply localScroll to hook any other arbitrary links to trigger 
    // the effect
    $.localScroll(scrollOptions);

    // finally, if the URL has a hash, move the slider in to position, 
    // setting the duration to 1 because I don't want it to scroll in the
    // very first page load.	We don't always need this, but it ensures
    // the positioning is absolutely spot on when the pages loads.
    scrollOptions.duration = 1;
    $.localScroll.hash(scrollOptions);


});