I want to create a newsModule which displays a number of recent news items, but not in the default way.

I want to create a slideshow with (lets say) 4 summaryzed articles.
A few buttons: Next Article, Previous Article, Read More buttons

Red square could be a uploaded image.

already got this function running:

function LatestNews($num=5) {
$news = DataObject::get_one("PageNieuwsArticleHolder");
return ($news) ? DataObject::get("PageNieuwsArticlePage", "ParentID = $news->ID", "Date DESC", "", $num) : false;
}

Could you give me some clues on how to accomplish this new newsModule?
Rather not use flash, but if it is the best way Im willing to explore.

Ok nice, have read the demo's. See that it can slide text with images, but can it also fade text + images?

Is there a way to automatically put the html links into the slider?

With this function it already show the 5 latest articles:

function LatestNews($num=5) {
$news = DataObject::get_one("PageNieuwsArticleHolder");
return ($news) ? DataObject::get("PageNieuwsArticlePage", "ParentID = $news->ID", "Date DESC", "", $num) : false;
}

So i need to get the link of those articles and print them inside the slider.