Hi Erez, Erez Boym wrote: > [...] > > I can tell you that my challenges concerning TimeLine are not over yet. > > Right now I am experiencing arbitrary crashes in the TimeLine code (Crashes > "general exception err" and everything is going bye bye !). Once I add the > events I am experiancing crashes when TimeLine repaints the events (During > scrolling of the TimeLine bands) and crashes when I click an event and > TimeLine tries to open the description window. I'm not shore what causes the > crashes but ... it's giving me a pain right now. > Are you testing in IE on Windows? (I have never actually seen Timeline crash a browser completely.)
> I will also need to be able to dynamically add/remove bands and events to > enable TimeLine editing, but thats not started yet. > > I don't know if you are part of the developers but, if you are and if there > is a wish list for TimeLine please add the following: > 1) API documentation > 2) The ability to set elements IDs from XML or from the addMany function > 3) Event nesting, Events built from other sub-events > (the whole bundle should be displayed as a single event on the TImeLine. > 4) The ability to control TimeLine decisions like: > When an event is moved to the next track, > When labels of a duration event is painted in or out of the event > (Alignment ?), > The order of the events, which events are on which track > etc. > 5) Change the exception messages in TimeLine to a more informative error > messages. > > The most painful issue, for me, right now is the documentation. A simple > object charts showing the interfaces of each object and the relationships > between them would be grate. > I hear you. Missing documentation is often one of the Achilles' heels of open source software. Another is often the lack of user interface design. We're starting a transition that hopefully will encourage more open source contribution, which could yield better documentation. But unfortunately that will come too late for you. David _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
