Hi Darren, My comments in brackets, [like this]
Loading it in an iFrame and not using Thickbox works perfectly so it must be something to do with that. Any ideas how to fix this? [I'd use Firebug and trace through what is happening when the Timeline is being re-positioned. A different approach is to start with what is working (iframe with no ThickBox), and go from there. In particular: Do NOT load jquery since it is already loaded by Timeline-api. BUT, the ver of jquery that the old Timeline ver loads is not current. So could be a combination of a) loading the jquery library twice and b) they are different versions. My recommendation is that since you want to use something that is pretty up to date (Thickbox), you'll need to upgrade to a ver of Timeline that is using the same ver of jquery as Thickbox. ] As for upgrading, i've already started working on this, but I actually prefer the layout of the old version (call me old fashioned if you like!). Specifically, here are things I liked about the older version: - In the overview band, events are staggered vertically. In the new version, they are all on one plane. I feel the vertical formatting makes it easier to read. [Yes, I think this was a change made to the overview painter. The behavior is now different if you're using instant events, rather than duration events. (That's fine, of course.) So two ways to fix: 1) Change the overview-painter. If you look in it, you'll see that it does use separate tracks if the event is a duration event, but not if it is an instant event. 2) Use a separate event source for the overview bands where the events have attribute durationEvent true. Downside of this technique is that you'd doube the downloads and memory usage in the browser for events. Not a good thing. ] - The label for each event was in-line with the event icon and overlaid on the event tape. I don't like how the new version places them directly below the tape. I have tried to customize my new version look like the old version via CSS. [ Yes, this is a change that was made at some point. I don't know that you'd be able to get the old look with css. Let us know how you get on with this. I think it is reasonable to be able to have the labels on top of the tapes as it was in ver 1. ] - The big problem I have is appyling a 2nd theme to bands 2 and 4 in my instance. If you can work out what I need to do to make the new version have band colors similar to the ones I am currently using, that would be great! [Each band can have its own theme. See http://simile-widgets.googlecode.com/svn/timeline/trunk/src/webapp/examples/test_example2/test_example2.html for an example of two different themes being used. ] You can find my new work in progress version at http://www.semi-directory.com/events2.2.asp Thanks, Darren --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
