Drupal 6 rotor module - patch to add transition effects (fade)

Today I decided to have a go at patching the Drupal rotor module to add support for transition effects such as fading and scrolling. After considering various options, including the innerfade library and step carousel, I decided to implement it using the excellent jquery cycle library. This is a very lightweight jquery library which offers a great deal of configuration options. I decided to keep things simple for now and only added very basic support for the fade effect, but this could easily be extended to support additional effects.

My patch adds a new configuration option to the modules administration page at admin/settings/rotor which allows you to control the speed of the fade, or disable it completely completely. You can find it attached to this feature request.