Matt,

Drawing lines is not so easy... You probably need to use <canvas> or 
SVG. The code that generates HTML for showing the events is here:
    http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/scripts/painters.js

On the same topic, take a look at:
    http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13818/

Cheers,

David

Rickard, Matthew J. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using Timeline to display a sequence of workflow-related
> events.  I would like to be able to draw some kind of links between
> certain timeline events in order to visualize certain relationships.
> For example, something like this (hopefully my ASCII-art is readable):
>
> Standard duration events on the timeline (+ signifies start and end):
>
> +--------------+      (Event A)
>
>     +------+  (Event B)
>
> After linking:
>
> +--------------+      (Event A)
>     |      |
>     +------+  (Event B)
>
> The link would connect the start/end of Event B to the corresponding
> times on Event A (via dotted line, solid line, or something similar).
> Is it currently possible to do this kind of linking using the Timeline
> libraries?  What would be the best way to approach this?  I'd
> appreciate any pointers toward the appropriate documentation/source
> code.
>
> Regards,
> Matt Rickard
>
>
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