--- a/src/js/widgets/sliderWidget.js	Thu Nov 10 17:34:20 2011 +0100
+++ b/src/js/widgets/sliderWidget.js	Mon Nov 14 10:47:44 2011 +0100
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
   this.selector.append(Mustache.to_html(IriSP.overlay_marker_template));
   this.positionMarker = this.selector.children(".positionMarker");
   
+  this.sliderBackground.click(function(event) { self.clickHandler.call(self, event); });
+  
   this._Popcorn.listen("timeupdate", IriSP.wrap(this, this.sliderUpdater));
 };
 
@@ -28,4 +30,23 @@
 	this.sliderForeground.css("width", percent + "%");
 	this.positionMarker.css("left", percent + "%");
   
+};
+
+IriSP.SliderWidget.prototype.clickHandler = function(event) {
+  /* this piece of code is a little bit convoluted - here's how it works :
+     we want to handle clicks on the progress bar and convert those to seeks in the media.
+     However, jquery only gives us a global position, and we want a number of pixels relative
+     to our container div, so we get the parent position, and compute an offset to this position,
+     and finally compute the progress ratio in the media.
+     Finally we multiply this ratio with the duration to get the correct time
+  */
+  
+  var parentOffset = this.sliderBackground.parent().offset();
+  var width = this.sliderBackground.width();
+  var relX = event.pageX - parentOffset.left;
+      
+  var duration = this._serializer.currentMedia().meta["dc:duration"] / 1000;
+  var newTime = ((relX / width) * duration).toFixed(2);
+	
+  this._Popcorn.currentTime(newTime);
 };
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--- a/unittests/tests/sliderWidget.js	Thu Nov 10 17:34:20 2011 +0100
+++ b/unittests/tests/sliderWidget.js	Mon Nov 14 10:47:44 2011 +0100
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
     var widget = new IriSP.SliderWidget(this.Popcorn, this.config, this.ser);    
     widget.draw();
     
-    ok(IriSP.jQuery("#widget-div").hasClass("ui-slider"), "test if the div has been set-up");
+    ok(IriSP.jQuery("#widget-div").children().hasClass("sliderBackground"), "test if the div has been set-up");
+    ok(IriSP.jQuery("#widget-div").children().hasClass("sliderForeground"), "test if the div has been set-up");
   
   });
   
@@ -36,8 +37,8 @@
     widget.draw();
     
     var spy_callback = this.spy();
-    widget._Popcorn.listen("test.fixture", spy_callback);       
-    IriSP.jQuery("#widget-div").slider("value", 30);
+    widget._Popcorn.listen("timeupdate", spy_callback);       
+    IriSP.jQuery("#widget-div").children().click();
     ok(spy_callback.called, "handling function has been called");
   });
 }
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