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

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