Joern Clausen wrote: > Hi! > > I just recently learned about Timeline and I am very impressed. I used > it right away to enhance my shot at the hello-world example of mashups, > my Google-Maps-Earthquake visualiser. You can find the new version here > > http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/usgseq-timeline.html > Cool :-) I think your simple combination of space and time is strikingly effective.
> and I think it will soon replace the old version at > > http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/usgseq.html > > I have a few questions, though: > > - I used the method mentioned in the Wiki to change the behaviour when > clicking on an event. Although it works, it feels a little awkward to > use a method that's supposed to create a popup window for something > totally different. Is a more generic interface planned? > No, there is nothing planned right now. We're still seeing novel uses of Timeline once in a while and I guess we'll consolidate them into version 2.0 sometime in the future. > - I think there are methods to store arbitrary data with an event. But > due to the lack of documentation on the one hand and my shallow > knowledge of JavaScript on the other, I used the (now unused) > property "description" to store the coordinates of the earthquakes. > What's the right solution to this problem? > I saw this in your code: var evt = new Timeline.DefaultEventSource.Event(date,null,null,null, false,title,point, null,null, null,color,null); You can just add something to evt, e.g., evt.point = point; I don't think there's any "right" solution... > Thanks for creating this fantastic widget and releasing it as OSS. I > hope you will complete the documentation, so that users like me can use > its full potential. > The bad news is Timeline was written by only me and I'm swamped with my thesis work. The good news is that many people have used Timeline for various things and so the knowledge is distributed out there. It's a reason why we have a wiki for documentation, so that users like yourself can share your tips and tricks with one another: http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Timeline By the way, have you looked at Exhibit? http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/ David _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
