Hi Rob,
Ah, you mean consecutive events. I think it was a "feature" to separate
those so that it's easy to tell when one ends and the next starts.
That's not configurable right now. You'd have to override the _layout
method in
http://static.simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/scripts/layouts.js
if you want to change the behavior.
David
Rob Brenart (TT) wrote:
> Perhaps I'm mis-using the word band in the context I mean.
>
> I'm not referring to the container which loads the xml, but rather the
> single row of color which is in the band. I suppose I could put them
> each in their own band and then just do multiple bands of the same size
> and scale... but I'll still run into the problem where it refuses to put
> two items with overlapping times on the same line. (And overlapping can
> mean 5am-12pm and 12pm-1pm)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: V. Alex Brennen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 2:53 PM
> To: General List
> Cc: Rob Brenart (TT)
> Subject: Re: timeline - decide which band an entry is in regardless
> ofoverlap
>
> On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 16:34 -0600, Rob Brenart (TT) wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to define which band an entry shows up in?
>>
>
> Yes.
>
>
>> My goal is to map several competing actions on one timeline, and I'd
>> like to put all of actor A's events on band 1, actor B's events on
>> band 2 and so on.
>>
>
> You can do this by creating and specifying a different XML file
> for each band. In your case, you could create a file called
> 'actor_a.xml' and a file called 'actor_b.xml' and then load each into
> an eventSource object and assign each object to a different band.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> http://vab.mit.edu/jewel_kilcher_timeline/
>
> In the example, a summary XML file is used for the some bands and a more
> more detailed XML file, with many more events, is used for others.
>
> The relevant code is:
>
> Timeline.loadXML("jewel_kilcher.xml", function(xml, url)
> { eventSource.loadXML(xml, url); });
>
> Timeline.loadXML("jewel_kilcher_full.xml", function(xml, url)
> { eventSourceFull.loadXML(xml, url); });
>
> var eventSource = new Timeline.DefaultEventSource();
> var eventSourceFull = new Timeline.DefaultEventSource();
>
> var bandInfos = [
> Timeline.createBandInfo({
> width: "15%",
> intervalUnit: Timeline.DateTime.DECADE,
> intervalPixels: 225,
> trackHeight: .4,
> trackOffset: .1,
> date: "February 28 1995 00:00:00 GMT",
> showEventText: false,
> eventSource: eventSourceFull,
> theme: theme
> }),
> Timeline.createBandInfo({
> eventSource: eventSourceFull,
> start: "May 23 1974 00:00:00 GMT",
> date: "February 28 1995 00:00:00 GMT",
> width: "40%",
> intervalUnit: Timeline.DateTime.DAY,
> intervalPixels: 100,
> theme: theme
> }),
> Timeline.createBandInfo({
> eventSource: eventSource,
> start: "May 23 1974 00:00:00 GMT",
> date: "February 28 1995 00:00:00 GMT",
> width: "30%",
> intervalUnit: Timeline.DateTime.MONTH,
> intervalPixels: 100,
> theme: theme
> }),
> Timeline.createBandInfo({
> showEventText: false,
> trackHeight: 0.4,
> trackGap: 0.2,
> eventSource: eventSourceFull,
> start: "May 23 1974 00:00:00 GMT",
> date: "February 28 1995 00:00:00 GMT",
> width: "15%",
> intervalUnit: Timeline.DateTime.YEAR,
> intervalPixels: 300,
> theme: theme
> })
> ];
>
>
> I hope that this example is helpful.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> - VAB
>
> -
> V. Alex Brennen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> UNIX Systems Administrator x3.9327
> http://vab.mit.edu/
>
>
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