(function($) {
	// 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': '227px'});

		// apply our left + right buttons
		$scroll
			.before('<img class="scrollButtons left" src="http://demo.wpesp.com/portfolio/wp-content/uploads/scroll_left.png" />')
			.after('<img class="scrollButtons right" src="http://demo.wpesp.com/portfolio/wp-content/uploads/scroll_right.png" />');

		// 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: 'img.left', 
				next: 'img.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);

	});
})(jQuery);