Brian L. Croxall wrote: > Hugo, > > I agree that it would be nice to have some more control over how the > timeline behaves with events that are several lengths of the timeline. > I believe that your third suggestion has already been implemented in > Exhibit/Timeline. If you type in a specific enough term in the search > box, the timeline is centered on the beginning or the end of the event > in question. (Try "Virginia" or "one year" on my timeline.) > > A problem with this method is that the information bubble associated > with an event seems to generate in the event's middle. Thus, if you > have an event (like the life of Virginia Woolf in my example), it can > take a long time to actually find the bubble as you can only see ~1 > year at once on the timeline. It would be nice if you clicked on any > portion of such an event if the bubble would appear there _or_ if the > event would then get centered in the timeline view. (Peter Frederick > and I have been discussing this off-list). Is this a feature that > could be implemented? (As if David doesn't have enough to do with > getting a real job. [Congratulations, by the way]). FYI, I've just fixed Timeline 2.0 (which Exhibit 2.0 depends on) so that the bubble pops up where you click. You'll need to Shift-reload to get the latest code.
David > Of course, the easiest way to take care of this problem is to make > sure you pick the proper units for your bands depending on the data > you are going to represent. This becomes much more difficult when you > are working with a timeline where you are allowing others to > contribute to the data set. > > Best, > Brian > > *General List <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > writes: > *When playing with your app I find something in Timeline in general > that I'd like to be considered: > > When the horizontal axis values included in data, are extend too far > apart from the visible portion in Timeline, would be nice to have > something to improve the experience of using Timeline. I propose some > alternatives: > > 1- A Zooming In and Out mechanismn the let you find some particular > section in the x axis. (Like GMaps Zoom Slider) > 2- A box for enter a value to position both the lower ruler and the > cursor the sliding window > 3- A search box for looking a particular event / value and position > Timeline there > 4- External to the Timeline "throttle" buttons for speeding up (FFwd > and Rwd) > 5- When facets combination are selected, give the choice of auto > scale/position the x axis to a value meaningful to the set found > 6- Will be nice nice for example in Timeline that I could select the > type of X axis scale (Linear, logarithmic, ascending, descending, etc) > for both the ruler and the cursor > 7- If considering Timeline like a viewport to a dataset, will be nice > to have small global view of the set and Timeline position in the set > (Something like ArgoUML general view) > > I'm old enough (53) for having using slide rule in school and college. > Playing with Timeline brings me back those days memories. But there > was something in the slide rule: I allways have all the witdh of it to > my glance. > > Cheers > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
