[Simile-Widgets] Re: simile timeline on android

2013-11-30 Thread Matt Denman
My work on the timeline is to get it up to modern jQuery coding standards in order to reduce the total size of the timeline codebase. I also want to make the bubble info optional so that another type of bubble can be used. For example, I am using the timeline in a twitter bootstrap theme and

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Timelines over SSL

2013-11-30 Thread Matt Denman
Using the version I created that contains the entire timeline in one JS will solve your issue. https://github.com/kusog/timeline On Saturday, October 26, 2013 9:35:10 PM UTC-4, paul chubb wrote: One thing that is not documented is how to get the js libraries to load over SSL. This is more

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline events and positioning...

2013-11-30 Thread Matt Denman
You can create one event source and band in the timeline per person. Typically the examples create one band and one event source and show all events in the one band, but there is nothing stopping you from creating one band per person and having them stacked, which each person getting their

[Simile-Widgets] Re: timeline and target = _blank

2013-11-30 Thread Matt Denman
In my updated version of timeline at https://github.com/kusog/timeline I have changed the bubble so that it just shows a description which is HTML. When I want to show links I add them into the description myself. That way I can show buttons like this:

[Simile-Widgets] Re: timeline and target = _blank

2013-11-30 Thread Matt Denman
Also, I added a bubble title option so that the title shown in the bubble can be different from what is shown in the timeline. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups SIMILE Widgets group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline Not Loading XML Unless File's On an HTTP Server

2013-11-30 Thread Matt Denman
If you write your code to first use $.ajax and manually manage the expected data type, you can get around the mime-type issue that can come up from loading from local file system. On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 3:38:05 PM UTC-4, Devon Young wrote: I'm trying to get a timeline working, using the

[Simile-Widgets] Re: php and http://www.robertb.co.nz/timeline/

2013-11-30 Thread Matt Denman
When you setup the web server to return the xml, either from a static file or dynamically generated, you can send down http header info too, including detailed caching info. You can say to cache the xml results for the session only. There are a variety of headers like expires and

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-10-25 Thread Matt Denman
back into our codebase? (Ideally without requiring a complete rewrite). Thanks a lot for all your work on this! Ted Benson On Sunday, July 7, 2013 8:47:33 PM UTC-4, Matt Denman wrote: I started using timeline a while ago and dug in deep. I love the widget

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-10-22 Thread Matt Denman
a complete rewrite). Thanks a lot for all your work on this! Ted Benson On Sunday, July 7, 2013 8:47:33 PM UTC-4, Matt Denman wrote: I started using timeline a while ago and dug in deep. I love the widget, but I really disliked the way it was loading the javascript and how its script block

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: I'm looking for a way to implement an expandable/collapsible timeline

2013-10-08 Thread Matt Denman
I did it. You can get that version of the code at https://github.com/kusog/timeline You can see it running at http://timeline.kusog.org On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Jeff Roehl jroe...@yahoo.com wrote: I remember reading somebodies post here about re-writing or re-factoring the Simile

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-10-03 Thread Matt Denman
For standard icons like green-circle.png, the event element should have icon=green-circle.png without any pathing info. The plugin will worry about where such icons are. If you want to provide a custom icon, you should provide a path that starts with / and is to resource on your site that will

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-28 Thread Matt Denman
I've pushed out my entire timeline development project on github - http://github.com/kusog/timeline. It comes included within a VS2012 MVC project, but the JS can be taken and used in anything as it has no dependency on .NET or MVC. The MVC project is just my test bed, plus it provides the

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-16 Thread Matt Denman
I updated the http://timeline.kusog.org monet demo timeline code to fix a double click bug, plus added support for bubbleTitle attribute on event, which if specified will override the title attribute for the bubble title. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[Simile-Widgets] Re: I'm looking for a way to implement an expandable/collapsible timeline

2013-07-15 Thread Matt Denman
:50 UTC-4, Matt Denman wrote: I think I am doing something like what you say now. I have a view where I show events for several people mixed together. That is the composite view. However, I can drill down to just the details for one person. I do that by making a separate UI that allows me

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-15 Thread Matt Denman
I've put another drop out of my updated timeline on http://timeline.kusog.org that fixes a resizing issue. I did some testing using the Average load time tester between http://timeline.kusog.org and http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/examples/monet/monet.html and my streamlined version

[Simile-Widgets] Re: I'm looking for a way to implement an expandable/collapsible timeline

2013-07-11 Thread Matt Denman
I think I am doing something like what you say now. I have a view where I show events for several people mixed together. That is the composite view. However, I can drill down to just the details for one person. I do that by making a separate UI that allows me to filter out the other people.

[Simile-Widgets] Re: I'm looking for a way to implement an expandable/collapsible timeline

2013-07-11 Thread Matt Denman
An example could be showing a list of wars on the timeline. WW2 would be just one event on the timeline. If someone clicked on WW2, the timeline would change to show the events within WW2 only. If that is what you mean, you'll need to handle the click of the event, query for your child

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Crowd-sourced timelines using Google Docs

2013-07-11 Thread Matt Denman
I am doing something similar with WordPress and Gravity forms ( http://www.gravityforms.com/). I am working on a plugin for wordpress that will let you embed a timeline into a wordpress page and then configure it to use content from the form responses and posts in the site. This way the data

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Anyone really using the Timline compact layout?

2013-07-10 Thread Matt Denman
On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:14:37 UTC+1, Matt Denman wrote: There is only one demo of the compact layout, which has lots of broken image links and some interesting weekday background color highlighting, but otherwise doesn't seem to do much different from the original layout. I built a demo

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Anyone really using the Timline compact layout?

2013-07-10 Thread Matt Denman
those events happened and you had to scroll vertically to see it all. The compact view supports that types of vertical scrolling. On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Matt Denman mattfromgeorgia2...@gmail.com wrote: That example is much different than the one shown in the timeline examples page

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Anyone really using the Timline compact layout?

2013-07-10 Thread Matt Denman
Well, on my Dell 30 monitor, I wouldn't have to scroll vertically to see 24 time slots for the day zoom in compact view. On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Matt Denman mattfromgeorgia2...@gmail.com wrote: That example would be fantastic to have another label on the left for the other time

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-10 Thread Matt Denman
coming up once it has, one simply needs to scroll a little bit, then select a bubble node. No soft keyboard until after a touch in the background again. This is much better! Once again, nice work! On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 7:37:02 PM UTC-5, Matt Denman wrote: I have updated http

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-09 Thread Matt Denman
When I test http://simile-widgets.org/timeline/examples/monet/monet.html I cannot swipe or use two finger gesture. When I use http://timeline.kusog.org I can swipe with one finger and the timeline will scroll. I added new code to support gestures on tablet and phone. The original code has no

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-09 Thread Matt Denman
I understand now. You're not using a tablet you're using Mac laptop with track pad. I don't have Mac so can't test that. However, for iPad and iPhone the original code didn't support touch but my version has touch support. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[Simile-Widgets] Anyone really using the Timline compact layout?

2013-07-09 Thread Matt Denman
There is only one demo of the compact layout, which has lots of broken image links and some interesting weekday background color highlighting, but otherwise doesn't seem to do much different from the original layout. I built a demo and what it appears to do is allow the events to scroll when

[Simile-Widgets] Anyone really using the Timeline detailed layout?

2013-07-09 Thread Matt Denman
The code includes a detailed layout, but when I try it, the layout looks confusing. Perhaps it was designed to show certain types of data, but when switching the Monet data to the detailed layout the timeline looks bad. As my other thread about revisiting timeline indicated, I am trying to

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-09 Thread Matt Denman
I've updated the http://timeline.kusog.org demo with my latest efforts, which removed the detailed and compact painters and more unused code. The results are now that the minified file is 111kb and the gzipped filed is 32kb. This is significantly smaller than the original code base, plus all

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-09 Thread Matt Denman
Another thing I have done is remove the concept of wiki link and showing the date of the event in the bubble window. Right now the code just shows title, description and image. I'm going to make the bubble more robust with how content can be generated for it, which will allow the page to

[Simile-Widgets] Mouse dragging timeline issues

2013-07-09 Thread Matt Denman
I notice that when I drag on the timeline in http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/examples/monet/monet.html that if you move the mouse out of the band that you were dragging in, it will cancel the drag. This can be a bad user experience when the band is narrow and it is easy to drag out of

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Mouse dragging timeline issues

2013-07-09 Thread Matt Denman
I also noticed that when you drag in the original demo, that if you drag over event text, the event text gets highlighted. I don't see that in my demo. Does anyone here see any issues with my new drag implementation? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Mouse dragging timeline issues

2013-07-09 Thread Matt Denman
along and the the whole timeline seemingly gets Select All or CTRL+A and turns blueish. This is actually hard to explain. Thanks Jeff Roehl jro...@yahoo.com javascript: (818) 912-7530 -- *From:* Matt Denman mattfromg...@gmail.com javascript

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-09 Thread Matt Denman
, 2013 11:13:47 AM UTC-5, Matt Denman wrote: I've updated the http://timeline.kusog.org demo with my latest efforts, which removed the detailed and compact painters and more unused code. The results are now that the minified file is 111kb and the gzipped filed is 32kb. This is significantly

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Canvas in timeline

2013-07-09 Thread Matt Denman
and I agree that the plug-in approach is the way to go for the kind of effort you are talking about... On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 4:16:53 PM UTC-5, Matt Denman wrote: I've been playing with some canvas code I have inside of timeline, inside a div layer either under or over the events layer

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-09 Thread Matt Denman
the timeline in your example, I am able to scroll about without the above gymnastics. The only thing I notice is that I still get the soft keyboard every time I select a bubble node... Good stuff! On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:13:47 AM UTC-5, Matt Denman wrote: I've updated the http

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-08 Thread Matt Denman
I setup http://timeline.kusog.org to run the monet demo if you want to see the new code in action without dealing with the zip. Note about the zip sent out earlier. I changed it to use the latest jquery, but it breaks the double click to scroll. If you change the jquery to something like

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-08 Thread Matt Denman
getting a different font than the original; one result is that (on my firefox) the word birth doesn't fit in its band and is getting cut off. Is this intentional? On 7/8/2013 11:37 PM, Matt Denman wrote: I setup http://timeline.kusog.org to run the monet demo if you want to see the new code

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-08 Thread Matt Denman
You are right. In my haste with a change to use jquery event handling, my touch methods were not fully updated. I've updated the timeline.kusog.org demo site and verified the touch is working with my ipad. On Monday, July 8, 2013 4:54:27 PM UTC-4, Jörn Clausen wrote: On Mac OS X 10.7,

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-08 Thread Matt Denman
I will say the only touch support I've added to date is the ability to drag left/right with finder. The double finger gesture you mentioned isn't something I worked with and it appears to work, but not as I would expect. On Monday, July 8, 2013 5:16:58 PM UTC-4, Matt Denman wrote: You

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-08 Thread Matt Denman
On Sunday, July 7, 2013 8:47:33 PM UTC-4, Matt Denman wrote: I started using timeline a while ago and dug in deep. I love the widget, but I really disliked the way it was loading the javascript and how its script block needed to be in the head section. I tore out the timeline code from

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-08 Thread Matt Denman
Once I get the code structure in place, my next move is to make the bubble window support making a callback to get the details to be displayed rather than needing to send them down in the original data. This can be done now by hand, but I'd like to make it formalized. I also don't like how

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Removal of copyright notice

2013-07-08 Thread Matt Denman
My take is that if the app has an about app page, all notices about the various components can appear in that. I think its bad form for each widget to have a graphic notice on their display that is always visible. I've removed the graphic from the timeline, but have a notice about it in a

[Simile-Widgets] Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-07 Thread Matt Denman
I started using timeline a while ago and dug in deep. I love the widget, but I really disliked the way it was loading the javascript and how its script block needed to be in the head section. I tore out the timeline code from the overall Simile project and removed much of the base code that