function Glider(Options) {

var $panels = jQuery('#slider .scrollContainer > div');
var $container = jQuery('#slider .scrollContainer');

// if false, we'll float all the panels left and fix the width 
// of the container
if (Options.scrollVertical == false) { 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 = jQuery('#slider .scroll').css('overflow', 'hidden');

// apply our left + right buttons if more than one element
if (Options.showArrows == true) {
	$scroll
	  .after('<img src="'+ Options.arrowLeft + '" class="scrollButtons left" id="scrollLeft"/><img src="'+ Options.arrowRight + '" class="scrollButtons right" id="scrollRight"/>');
};

// handle nav selection
function selectNav() {
  jQuery(this)
    .parents('ul:first')
      .find('li')
        .removeClass('selected')
      .end()
    .end()
    .parent().addClass('selected')
  	//MSA fade arrows in and out if first or last Item
  	if (jQuery(this)
  			.hasClass('erster')) {jQuery('img.left').fadeOut(); jQuery('img.right').fadeIn();
  			}
  	else if (jQuery(this)
  			.hasClass('letzter')) {jQuery('img.right').fadeOut(); jQuery('img.left').fadeIn();
  			}
  	else { jQuery('img.left').fadeIn(); jQuery('img.right').fadeIn(); };
}
jQuery('#slider .navigation').find('a').click(selectNav);

//MSA slider stop
jQuery('#slider .navigation').click(stop_slider);
jQuery('#slider .scrollContainer').click(stop_slider);
jQuery('img.left').click(stop_slider);
jQuery('img.right').click(stop_slider);
jQuery('#slider .stop').click(stop_slider);

//MSA slider start
jQuery('#slider .start').click(start_slider);

//MSA show right button at start
window.onload = function(){
	//jQuery('#slider .stop').css('visibility', 'visible');
	jQuery('#slider .stop').css('opacity',1);
	//jQuery('#slider .stop').fadeIn();
	//jQuery('#slider .start').css('visibility', 'hidden');
	jQuery('#slider .start').css('opacity',0.4);
	//jQuery('#slider .start').fadeOut();
}
//MSA start stop functions
function stop_slider() {
	$container.trigger('stop');
	//jQuery('#slider .stop').css('visibility', 'hidden');
	jQuery('#slider .stop').css('opacity',0.4);
	//jQuery('#slider .stop').fadeOut();
	//jQuery('#slider .start').css('visibility', 'visible');
	jQuery('#slider .start').css('opacity',1.0);
	//jQuery('#slider .start').fadeIn();
}

function start_slider() {
	$container.trigger('start');
	//jQuery('#slider .stop').css('visibility', 'visible');
	jQuery('#slider .stop').css('opacity',1.0);
	//jQuery('#slider .stop').fadeIn();
	//jQuery('#slider .start').css('visibility', 'hidden');
	jQuery('#slider .start').css('opacity',0.4);
	//jQuery('#slider .start').fadeOut();
	//jQuery('#slider .startstop').fadeOut();
}
/*//MSA der versuch den Button wechseln zu lassen...
function handle_startStop_Button(){
		var newText;
		var newStatus;
		if($("#"+id).attr("value") == "Entsperren") {
			newText = "Sperren";
			newStatus = "";
		} else {
			newText = "Entsperren";
			newStatus = "disabled";
		}
		$("#"+id).attr("value", newText);
		$("#"+id+"Area").attr("disabled", newStatus);
	}
*/
// go find the navigation link that has this target and select the nav
function trigger(data) {
  var el = jQuery('#slider .navigation').find('a[href$="' + data.id + '"]').get(0);
  selectNav.call(el);
}

if (window.location.hash) {
  trigger({ id : window.location.hash.substr(1) });
  //$container.trigger( 'stop' );
} else {
  jQuery('ul.navigation a:first').click();
}

// 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

  force: (Options.autoSlider == true) ? 1 : 0,
  interval: (Options.autoSlider == true) ? Options.autoSliderFrequency : '',

  // can be a selector which will be relative to the target
  items: $panels,
  
  navigation: '.navigation 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: Options.duration,
  
  // 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.
jQuery('#slider').serialScroll(scrollOptions);

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

}