Hi Mike,
Good news is that your way works too--see the event attribute
classname
Doc: http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/wiki/Timeline_EventSources
Currently, it sets the classname for just the label's div.
My thoughts are:
1) change classname attribute behavior so rather than setting the div
to only be the classname class, have it be *added* as a second
classname to the default classname timeline-event-label
2) also apply the classname to the bar's div but again, add it *in
addition to* the already present class timeline-event-tape.
The above changes will enable you to set css for both the label and
bar, plus additional rules that discriminate between the two.
While an additional level of indirection via the css file has
advantages, it also has disadvantages: an additional level of
indirection, more files to change, more to keep track of, more
complicated documentation, etc. Plus some customizable systems don't
want to generate dynamic css files for dynamic class definitions--
while it can be done, it is yet more work.
And IE still does not support the :before pseudo tag which would be
helpful as an alternative to giving an icon's image url.
I'm fine with expanding the current event classing mechanism as
described above if you think it'd be a positive move.
Re: hoverText -- yeah, I agree with you there. I didn't add it, just
fixed a bug where JSON wasn't reading it. Interestingly, it is
internally used as the "title" attribute. And the event title
attribute is (internally) the 'text' attribute.
I will add a new attribute of caption that will do the same thing as
today's hoverText. (hoverText will remain for backwards
compatibility.)
Regards,
Larry
On Sep 17, 4:35 pm, Michael Nosal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great, but I'm not a fan of introducing more style information in the
> events themselves. Having to specify barImage and barRepeat for a
> whole bunch of events is just mixing the data and the presentation,
> and implies that other code will have to have knowledge of the
> presentation of the data when it is generating my XML or JSON. I
> don't want that.
>
> I would rather specify things through classes:
> event {'start':'1885', 'end' : '1925', 'eventClass' : 'residence'
> or
> event {'start':'1920', end : '1924', 'eventType' : 'schooling'
>
> and use css classes to apply the appropriate images and styles.
>
> Same for hoverText - don't define attributes that refer specifically
> to presentation.
> I would rather have semantically meaningful labels for my values,
> like "shortTitle" or "summary" or "caption" than "hoverText",
> "linkText" or "mouseoverText"
>
> I'm all for more control over the presentation of items on the
> Timeline, I just want to keep things cleanly separated between data
> and presentation.
>
> --Mike Nosal
>
> On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:15 PM, LarryK wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Everybody,
>
> > I just checked in rev 1569 to Timeline.
>
> > New features
> > * Timeline events can now have new optional attributes of barImage and
> > barRepeat. Use them to set the background of event bars. Use stripes
> > or any image. The cubism example now demonstrates this. Check it out
> > on my sandbox:http://sandbox.kluger.com/timeline/src/webapp/
> > examples/cubism/cubism.html?1
>
> > * timeline_source.zip -- To make it easier for people to download the
> > source, I've added a new file to the source tree, a zip file of the
> > source. You can download it from here:
> >http://simile-widgets.googlecode.com/svn/timeline/trunk/
> > timeline_source.zip
>
> > Please let me know what you think of this idea. You should be able to
> > download it to your Mac or Win machine, unzip it, start the included
> > web server and then be all set. (Somebody please test it for me...)
>
> > * Updated the documentation about event sources (describes the
> > attributes). See
> >http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/wiki/Timeline_EventSources
>
> > Bug fixes
> > * Fixed color attribute to set background color of Timeline bars. See
> > Cubism for a demo.
> > * hoverText now works for JSON and SPARCL event sources. See Cubism
> > for a demo.
>
> > Using the new version
> > This version of Timeline is not available on the MIT servers or
> > elsewhere for production access by your Timeline html files. You can
> > easily serve the library to your own pages using any web server.
>
> > Your comments are very much appreciated.
>
> > Regards,
>
> > Larry K
> > New York City
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