Marshall, Can you give me a URL to your timeline so I can see what's going wrong? It's hard to know what's wrong with nothing to see.
Cheers, David Marshall Feldman wrote: > Hi, > > I've been toying with Timeline for a few hours. Thanks for the terrific > software. > > I may have discovered a bug in the software. I am designing a timeline for > both biotechnology and information technology. The timeline has three bands: > top one is for BT and the bottom, for IT. The middle band holds the year. > The timeline goes back to 8,000 BC, around the time when crops were > domesticated and proto-writing was developed. The timeline initially uses > millennia as its unit. As one moves forward in time, the timeline shifts to > centuries (after 500), decades (after 1800), and half-decades (after 1930). > > Because the timeline uses date-time units with radically different sizes, I > used the method shown in the tutorial to make hotzones. The tutorial uses a > "nested" approach, with the first zone being the largest (8/1/06-9/1/06), > the next zone (8/2/06-8/4/06) falling within the first, and the third zone > (8/2/06 6am - 8/2/06 12am) falling within the second. Running the tutorial > example worked fine on my computer, but when I applied this method to my own > timeline (described above) the system hung. It may just have been processing > the timeline, but if so the timeline was so compute-intensive as to be > impractical. With millennia, centuries, decades, and half-decades, the last > zone was nested three levels deep. I was able to work around the problem by > using non-overlapping time intervals for zones and only nesting them one > level deep. The behavior occurred with both Firefox and IE. > > It seems to me this behavior most likely reflects either the disparity > between time periods (one millennium contains 200 half-decades) or, more > likely, the depth of the nesting. Does anyone have an explanation for this > behavior? > > Marsh > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
