Hi all, My major sticking point with the using Exhibit is the limited number of items it can handle. I know this is not it's primary purpose, I think David has said somewhere that it is suited to display between 50-500 items, whilst I (and I believe others) would be interested in applying the software to 1000s or even 10000s of items. I know there is Longwell but it is not as simple to prototype and the interface is just not as intuitive as that in Exhibit.
At the moment there seems to be two main constraints on the size of data, 1) constructing the graph representation and 2) displaying (rendering) the data The construction time does seem to increase somewhat exponentially with data size and that may impose a current absolute limit on the number of items. However it is possible to load a data set of over 10000 items if you go and make a cup of tea and perhaps have some lunch. The main problem seems to be that Exhibit insists on displaying all the items, therefore I was wondering if it was possible to: 1) paginate the results, there is the ex:showall="false" option but unfortunately it ceases to work under various conditions and anyway such a "some or all" option which is of limited use, however I recognise that this might involve a fair amount of work. 2) a simpler approach might be to impose some item threshold above which the exhibit views do not display. This could either mean that only the first n items are displayed or that (as with Longwell) no items are displayed until the number of items to display falls below the threshold. N _________________________________________________________________ Get free emoticon packs and customisation from Windows Live. http://www.pimpmylive.co.uk _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
