Re: [Simile-Widgets] Is it possible to have multiple month bands on one time line?

2011-08-31 Thread Michael Nosal
Did you remember to sync the bands before constructing the timeline? bandInfos[1].syncWith = 0; bandInfos[2].syncWith = 0; tl = Timeline.create(); --Mike On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Joe wrote: Hello everyone, I just started working with the SIMILE Widget and I wanted to create a

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Add videos to play on event click

2011-08-31 Thread martin
Did you look at the example for the music composers? http://www.musicedmagic.com/Exhibit/composers.html however if you are hosting your own FLV files then you will have to provide a container within your lense, probably the easiest to embed would be the flow player Pure Object Tag On Aug 27,

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Change Background Color for Simile Timeline

2011-08-31 Thread Gabe
Great, that worked well. Thanks for the help! On Aug 30, 5:50 pm, Michael Nosal mno...@mitre.org wrote: In Timeline 2.3.1, a change was made to switch from using the theme.ether.backgroundColors array to use the .timeline-ether-bg CSS class name instead. If you look in

[Simile-Widgets] Force event label to always be visible

2011-08-31 Thread codebeneath
For long events that extend left and right of the visible timeline, we would like to shift the event label to the leftmost visible edge on the timeline. In this way, there would never be an event whose label is not visible. Is this a problem with a solution already? If not, my idea would be to

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Force event label to always be visible

2011-08-31 Thread codebeneath
I changed my search terms a bit and found a previous post from 2008 asking the same question. We are on Timeline v2.3.1. This is possible, but complicated. Take a look in http://static.simile.mit.edu/timeline/api-2.0/scripts/original-painte... there is a method called

Re: R: Re: [Simile-Widgets] About a lens in Recent United States Senate Bills example

2011-08-31 Thread Ryan Lee
Hi Andrea, There isn't a simple, template-based way to do that, no. You'll have to look at the SimileAjax Javascript. http://api.simile-widgets.org/ajax/2.2.1/scripts/graphics.js Specifically SimileAjax.createBubbleForContentAndPoint. Generally, I guess you'd have to template the content you

[Simile-Widgets] Exhibit 3.0 beta release -- nearly there!

2011-08-31 Thread mackenzie
For those of you waiting for the new Exhibit 3.0 beta release, due this month, we're nearly there! The release should be available later tonight or early tomorrow, available on GitHub, and we've already put some information up about it at the simile-widget.org site. As an early beta release

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: JSON data and THEN-BY sorting

2011-08-31 Thread Ryan Lee
Hello, On 8/27/11 7:35 AM, Boof wrote: Thanks Ryan. Q1) On this, I was looking at: http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/wiki/Timeline_EventSourceJSON_jsDate I do not know JSON or Javascript, but I know Exhibit sees it as a date because it comes back with Wed Jan 1 00:00:00 EST 1840.

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Exhibit 3.0 beta release -- nearly there!

2011-08-31 Thread Jon Bogacki
Well done MacKenzie, and the rest of the Exhibit3 team! Can't wait to try it out. Thanks, Jon On 1 September 2011 11:58, mackenzie ken...@mit.edu wrote: For those of you waiting for the new Exhibit 3.0 beta release, due this month, we're nearly there! The release should be available later