Actually, I wish to add in support for the Hijri calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar) and have both the Gregorian and Hijri timelines be displayed on the screen simultaneously...
How much of an undertaking would that be? :-) --Arsalan ---------------------------------------- > Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:52:58 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Adding a custom calendar > > Arsalan, > > There are 2 concepts in Timeline that are related to what you want to do: > > 1. Unit: Each timeline has a single unit, which is by default > milliseconds and all the usual Javascript date functionality works with > it. The dinosaurs example shows how to use a different unit--million of > years: > > 2. Ether labeler: Each band of a timeline has its own ether labeler, > which renders labels on that band. The default labeler can render at > different intervals like year, month, day, hour, etc. You can have > labelers that render other kinds of label, such as the age in years of a > person (top band): > http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/monet/monet.html > or the years of a king's reign (top band): > http://home.myuw.net/jjcrump/Timelines/JohnItinerary2.html > > If that doesn't suffice to get you started, let us know what sort of > calendaring system you would like to implement. > > Cheers, > > David > > Arsalan Zaidi wrote: > > Hi. > > > > How difficult is it to add in a different calendaring system to the > > Timeline code? I'd like to be able to have a view with both my custom > > calendar and the Gregorian one. > > > > Any pointers to docs, similiar efforts and the files to examine would be > > appreciaed. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > --Arsalan > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Search from any Web page with powerful protection. Get the FREE Windows > > Live Toolbar Today! > > http://toolbar.live.com/?mkt=en-in > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general _________________________________________________________________ Check out some new online services at Windows Live Ideas—so new they haven’t even been officially released yet. http://www.msnspecials.in/windowslive/ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
