Removing or changing some buttons - homepage slideshow

[WinsomeWorks]

I've tried a few things for removing or changing certain slideshow buttons. Am not having much luck, even after lots of digging around this site & Smug.

I'd prefer to have at least an "arrow forward" button and "arrow back" button somewhere on my homepage stretchy slideshow. I'd be thrilled if they were small & unobtrusive, unlike the default ones I have now. But I'd love to get rid of the pause & start button that's smack-dab in the middle for awhile when the show starts. So far, I've tried adding this to my CSS; thought this was supposed to remove the pause/start button:

.play_slideshow {
display: none;
}

That didn't do the trick. It's still in my CSS, however. I also tried adding this to my bio box: showStartButton: 'false',
showButtons: 'true',
because I thought the combo would achieve this (showing arrows but not the one in the middle). That's still in my bio. too, but it didn't work either. I saw no changes from any of these additions. What should I be doing instead? Or is there a tutorial around somewhere that would give options for smaller buttons or just arrows? Should this be in the hack thread instead? If nothing else works, I guess I'll just remove altogether, & I know how to do that. But would rather change them than remove them.

[jfriend]

Homepage slideshow buttons are not customizable other than hiding them or showing them. They are built into the slideshow flash control and do not respond to any CSS or HTML.

[WinsomeWorks]

Homepage slideshow buttons are not customizable other than hiding them or showing them. They are built into the slideshow flash control and do not respond to any CSS or HTML. Bummers. Do you know what those couple things I added are supposed to do instead? It would be nice to know. Unfortunately, some of the FAQs & tutorials are so concise in their explanation that it's hard to figure out if the result is what you were looking for, & I guess that's the case here. Also, in the meantime I did see a thread that included some button customizing or hacking, but it looked quite involved... probably more than I can tackle. The result seems nice, but the placement where they have it would probably crash into my thumbs anyway, unless it were placed above the show or beside it. I'll try to find it again & put it here in case you or anyone else is curious.

[jfriend]

Bummers. Do you know what those couple things I added are supposed to do instead? It would be nice to know. Unfortunately, some of the FAQs & tutorials are so concise in their explanation that it's hard to figure out if the result is what you were looking for, & I guess that's the case here. Also, in the meantime I did see a thread that included some button customizing or hacking, but it looked quite involved... probably more than I can tackle. The result seems nice, but the placement where they have it would probably crash into my thumbs anyway, unless it were placed above the show or beside it. I'll try to find it again & put it here in case you or anyone else is curious.

.play_slideshow {
display: none;
}

hides the full screen slideshow button in all your galleries and has nothing to do with the appearance of the actual slideshow itself.

showStartButton: "false", doesn't do anything because that's already the default. That just means that the slideshow will auto-play rather than wait for the user to start it.

showButtons: "true", means to show the forward/back/pause buttons as a unit. "false" would hide them.

[WinsomeWorks]

.play_slideshow {
display: none;
}

hides the full screen slideshow button in all your galleries and has nothing to do with the appearance of the actual slideshow itself.
.... Thanks! Yeah, I just figured out that I'd turned off the slideshow button for all my galleries. Silly. I got rid of it & they're back. At least I now learned how to do that for one gallery. I still can't find the thread I referred to. I imagine it's the kind of thing that would get broken anyway. Wish I could think of the person's site though, just out of curiosity's sake. Perhaps it'll turn up.