For some work I'm doing on a project, I'm using the Pager class.
This is really good (and I've learned a lot along the way), but I would like to use a slider (like http://jqueryui.com/slider/) to allow the user to jump to different places in the paged results.
I think that to do this right I need to find the total number of results and then tell Pager to serve the results that are associated with that selected spot on the slider.
For example, when the user selects a point 25% along the slider, I'll be able to find out there are 1024 results and jump to the set containing the 256th result.
For other pager tasks, I've been using the IndexPager, but this pager is obviously the wrong one for this job.
Is there a better one? Is there a pager-with-slider implementation out there already that I'm just not aware of?