On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 06:35 -0600, Robert Fant wrote: > Is there a way (or going to be) to type in a year (timeframe) to get > to a specific location (like a search) instead of scrolling? > > My project is covering a 6(K) year span.
Let me reply with some thoughts while other time zones are still sleeping..... I think you can do this now, at least we do it in Chisimba using PHP to write the javascript. The simplest way would be to pass the focusDate in the querystring, which is how we do it in Chisimba. I know how to do this in PHP, but there must be a Javascript way to do it as well. SO you could loop to create a dropdown list of years, decades, centuries, and then regenerate the page with that date passed in the querystring. so the part that needs to be set is date: in the onLoad function where it calls the Timeline.createBandInfo method. So <a href="/path/to/thispage.html?focusDate=1900">1900</a> So <a href="/path/to/thispage.html?focusDate=1910">1910</a> could do it. Put a series of those in a dropdown, an you can select the year or decade to set as the focus date for the timeline. I can show you how to do it in PHP, but I do not know enough Javascript to show you how to do it in JS. But I am sure someone else will! regards derek
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