I'm using the jQuery Cycle plugin to start a slidshow of images when hovering over the initial image. This works fine. What I want after that is to have the slideshow stop when hovered off, and have a manual slideshow (next/prev buttons) start. This currently works, but the slideshow starts from the beginning each time it's initialized. I want it to begin at the current image that's loaded.

I was playing around with getting the image's index from the DOM (as it's the only one with display:block) and using the option 'startingSlide' to resume it, but my index keeps returning as -1.

jQuery('#home-menu li').hover(function()
{
   setImages(jQuery(this).attr('title'), jQuery(this).find('.subtitle').text());

   jQuery('#main .blog #projects .gallery .slideshow').cycle(
   {
      fx: 'scrollHorz',
      easing: 'easeOutBounce',
      speed: 2000,
      delay: 0
   });
}, function()
{
   // Before loading the images for the clickable slideshow, find the current image in the DOM array to use as the starting position
   slideshowStart = jQuery('.gallery .slideshow img:visible').index(this);
   console.log('Index: ' + slideshowStart);
   setImages(jQuery(this).attr('title'), jQuery(this).find('.subtitle').text());

   jQuery('#main .blog #projects .gallery .slideshow').cycle('stop').cycle(
   {
      fx: 'scrollHorz',
      easing: 'easeOutBounce',
      startingSlide: slideshowStart,
      speed: 2000,
      timeout: 0,
      next: "#main .blog #projects .gallery span.span2",
      prev: "#main .blog #projects .gallery span.span1"
   });
});

setImages() just loads images into the DOM based on what li is being hovered over. Nothing special there.

I want the image to be resumed when hovered over and hovered off. I've left out the resume part for hover on for the moment while I was trying to get it working - In case you were wondering.