Jeff Garland wrote:
> Hi All -
>
> First, let me say thanks for Timelines -- this is a nice piece of
> work. I'm sure many people will find it useful. Ok, now for the
> questions -- I'll start with the easy one....
>
> 1) Text size in a decorator
>
> Is there a "right way" to change text size for start/end labels on the
> SpanHighlightDecorator? I couldn't find one, so I hacked the
> percentages in the decorators.js for now....clearly not a good way to
> do this.
No, there's no proper way because I didn't factor that out to a style
:-( That's something to fix later.
> 2) Fixed start / end times
>
> One of the projects I'm playing with is the schedule for an upcoming 1
> week technical conference. Since the start and end of this are well
> known, it would actually be nice to constrain the scrolling to within
> the 1 week timeline. I've read some of the code, but it's not obvious
> if such a thing could be accomplished or if it just flies in the face
> the design too fundamentally.
It shouldn't be too hard, but might be tricky. There are a bunch of
set*VisibleDate methods in
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/scripts/timeline.js
that you want to overload.
> 3) Discontinuities
>
> In my conference prototype, I have 2 bands -- an overview band with
> 'days' as the resolution and a detailed session band with 'hours' as
> the resolution. Since most of the scheduled activities (time at the
> bar is 'unscheduled' ;-) of the conference will be during the daylight
> hours I'd actually like to be able to be able to completely suppress
> the 'empty hours' between 8pm and midnight and midnight to 8 am. One
> thought I had was to have several different timelines in different
> 'divs' -- but that would seem to defeat the purpose. I'm thinking
> maybe something like a hot zone band ether with a negative
> magnification? Or maybe a whole new ether, or something else, may be
> required to achieve this?
We don't support negative magnification :-) But you could compress those
time spans enough to make scrolling over them not so painful (I think
using some magnification value between 0 and 1 should work).
David
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