[Simile-Widgets] Re: timeplot + joomla 2.5

2014-02-17 Thread paul chubb
Hi Rowan, I have done this with timeline. What I did was to use an iframe module to load a static html page for the javascript and the div. I used a module to add fields to a standard item for things like date, colour etc. I gathered the events by using categories - one per

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Here are a few easy steps ...

2014-01-26 Thread paul chubb
Hi Charles, Most developer effort seems to be focused on Exhibit. The group also seems to be a bit slow. All documentation is a bit of a mess and out of date. Hopefully this will change. I am not a developer but rather a user like yourself. I had a quick look at your code

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

2013-12-03 Thread paul chubb
Hi Guys, I read Matt's post and it took a while to click - guess I am getting old. In the PHP code on the server add: ?php header(Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate); // HTTP/1.1 header(Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT); // Date in the past ? Must be at the top of

[Simile-Widgets] Re: simile timeline on android

2013-11-30 Thread paul chubb
Hi Matt, I love that you are working on this. If I could help I would - I have practically no understanding of Javascript or JQuery which is why I have attempted to give back to the community via presence up here and offering documentation services. The project seems to be fairly

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Can't get timeline to work at all.

2013-11-18 Thread paul chubb
Hi J, I think it may be having trouble finding the Ajax stuff. Try setting it up in the header like this: script Timeline_ajax_url=https://api.simile-widgets.org/ajax/2.2.3/simile-ajax-api.js;; Timeline_urlPrefix='https://api.simile-widgets.org/timeline/2.3.1/';

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Erratic display of events

2013-11-08 Thread paul chubb
that would do it. For my code among other things I have the comment: force all chars to 32 - 126 of ansi/ascii I have got fairly paranoid about this problem. Glad it is sorted... Cheers Paul -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups SIMILE Widgets group.

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Erratic display of events

2013-11-07 Thread paul chubb
Hi Peter, I love the way timeline just drops in a heap and doesn't tell you what is wrong. My guess is that one of your input events has something in it that timeline doesn't like and it is loading until that one. Depending on other timing races this can produce the kind of

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

2013-11-05 Thread paul chubb
Hi Mario, I am unaware of the xml file being reloaded. I haven't used an xml file for this for some years. As to the jquery stuff, I believe that is what Matt Denman did and recounted in this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/simile-widgets/7rEoytCK88c Cheers Paul

[Simile-Widgets] Timelines over SSL

2013-10-26 Thread paul chubb
One thing that is not documented is how to get the js libraries to load over SSL. This is more marketing than substance since you need SSL for things like login details. However any time the page pulls back stuff over http it then signals the user that the page is unsecure even if the stuff -

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

2013-10-25 Thread paul chubb
Hi, I am in the beta stage of a php application using timeline with mysql. It is fairly straight forward. Have a look at: http://simile-widgets.org/wiki/Timeline_LoadEventsDynamically. This is using json as the translation. In a past life I use xml pumped with Notespump from a notes

[Simile-Widgets] simile timeline on android

2013-10-25 Thread paul chubb
Hi, I have a timeline application that works well on firefox on linux. When I open the same application in the webkit browser on my android phone, it draws the timelines correctly and allows tap on events to open them. However dragging with a finger doesn't make the timeline move. If I

[Simile-Widgets] Re: simile timeline on android

2013-10-25 Thread paul chubb
maintaining functionality on non-portable based browsers. Hope that helps give you an idea of what is going on... On Friday, October 25, 2013 3:57:40 PM UTC-5, paul chubb wrote: Hi, I have a timeline application that works well on firefox on linux. When I open the same application

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Two different timelines with different event-data in one browser window

2013-10-11 Thread paul chubb
did this today. My code is as follows. Timeline 2.3.1 is very sensitive to just about anything which gives you that lovely blank timeline. In this case many of the parameters into the timeline class are give by smarty template variables. This script does 4 timelines on the one page. I am

[Simile-Widgets] updating wiki documentation

2013-10-11 Thread paul chubb
Hi, I am using simile timeline for a teaching application. Part of the Australian Curriculum in History is the use of timelines and I am building an application to allow students to make timelines. I thought since I don't know javascript, that one way I could give back would be to document

[Simile-Widgets] Re: updating wiki documentation

2013-10-11 Thread paul chubb
Sorry - that is effort documenting ver 2.3 of the timeline worth it, I am not meaning to disparage Matt's excellent work. On Friday, 4 October 2013 08:17:55 UTC+10, paul chubb wrote: Hi, I am using simile timeline for a teaching application. Part of the Australian Curriculum