Are there any plans to implement a zooming In/Out capability? This
would be very useful to me as I expect my users to start at a very large
scope of a timeline, find what they're interested in, and then zoom down
to view details.
BTW, this is a great app! Some really nice work here.
best, and thanks,
robin
Michael Nosal wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2007, at 4:23 AM, Naimesh (Hotmail) wrote:
>
>> Hello !
>> I am new to timeline. Can anybody help me on :
>> 1) How to Pan left and Right feature to give on button click even
>> on the buttons kept on the page where timeline is displayed.
>> 2) How to provide zoom In/Out feature to give on button click even
>> on the buttons kept on the page where timeline is displayed.
>> Please help soon on above.
>> Thanks & Regards.
>> Naimesh Trivedi
>>
>
> Panning is done by calling _autoScroll on a Band. Look at
> Timeline._Band.prototype._onKeyUp. It binds the page down and page up
> keys to call _autoScroll. It takes a number of pixels +/- and scrolls
> the band in that direction.
>
> For example, you may have a link or button to pan your timeline:
>
> <input type="button" onclick="tl.getBand(0)._autoScroll(tl.getBand
> (0)._timeline.getPixelLength())" value="Backwards">
> This pans the timeline a fixed number of pixels.
>
> You may also call scrollToCenter on a Band. This takes a Date as its
> parameter and will smoothly scroll the timeline to that date. This
> allows you to scroll in exact time increments (such as +/- one month)
> rather than by pixels.
>
> onclick='tl.getBand(0).scrollToCenter(new Date("9/13/2007"))' would
> scroll the timeline to center on that date.
>
> Timeline doesn't currently support zooming In/Out.
>
> --Mike Nosal
>
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