var winners = { 

	showSmall:function(theitem) { 
	
		
			
			var count = document.getElementById("item_container").getElementsByTagName("div").length;
			
			for (var i = 0; i< count; i++) { 
				document.getElementById('item_container').getElementsByTagName('div').item(i).style.display = "none";
			
			} 
			
		
			new Effect.Appear('img'+theitem, { duration: 0.5 });
		
	
	}





};




var homefade = { 
fader: { 

		images: 0,
		img_id: null,
		img_base: '',
		img_ext: '.jpg',
		seconds: 5,
		timer: null,
		index: 0,
		effect: 'fade',


		startTimer: function()
		{
			homefade.fader.timer = setTimeout("homefade.fader.nextImage();", homefade.fader.seconds * 1000);
		},
		endTimer: function()
		{
			clearTimeout(homefade.fader.timer);
		},
		nextImage: function()
		{
			if(homefade.fader.index + 1 >= homefade.fader.images)
				homefade.fader.switchToImage(0);
			else
				homefade.fader.switchToImage(homefade.fader.index + 1);
		},
		switchToImage: function($i)
		{
			if($i < 0 || $i >= homefade.fader.images)
				return false;
			homefade.fader.endTimer();
			eval('homefade.fader.'+homefade.fader.effect+'('+$i+')');
		},
		fade: function($i)
		{
			new Effect.Parallel([
					new Effect.Fade(homefade.fader.img_id+homefade.fader.index, { sync: true, from: 1, to: 0 }),
					new Effect.Appear(homefade.fader.img_id+$i, { sync: true, from: 0, to: 1 })
								], { duration: 1.5, afterFinish: function() {
											homefade.fader.index = $i;
											if(homefade.fader.images > 0)
												homefade.fader.startTimer();
																			} });
		}




}
} 
/*

function setWidth() {
	var imgwidth=[];
	var containerdiv = document.getElementById('item_container');
	var dvs = containerdiv.getElementsByTagName('div');

	for(var c=0; c< dvs.length; c++) {
		
		if(dvs[c].className=='image') {
			imgwidth[c] = dvs[c].getElementsByTagName('img')[0].width;
			dvs[c].style.width = imgwidth[c]+'px';
		} 
	}
}
*/