Hi Mark,
Yes, trackNum is the right attribute. To use trackNum, you need to be using the trunk version of the software. Download either zip file from http://simile-widgets.googlecode.com/svn/timeline/trunk/ I have had other reports (see the issues tracker) that trackNum is working properly. Unfortunately, there is no example of it at this time. Regards, Larry ________________________________ From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: SIMILE Widgets <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 12:58:09 PM Subject: Re: Timeline markers back to front when hosting the Javascript files locally Thanks Larry. I've had a look around and can only find this link for "trackNum": http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/wiki/Timeline_EventSources I've created this in the XML as an incrementing number (as a simple test to see what happens) and it rendered in the same way as before. Any pointers to an actual site that uses the "trackNum" attribute would be very useful. Thanks Mark On Dec 2, 2:05 pm, Larry Kluger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > The behavior that you are noticing is a part of the event layout algorithm > update in Timeline v2. The algorithm now lays out the events for a given > section of the Timeline starting from the right. The benefit is that the new > algorithm does NOT need to look at all of the events when laying out a > section of the Timeline, only the events that will be shown on the visible > section. This proved to be a significant performance improvement. > > The downside is that the events' track assignment (a track is one of the > "rows" on a Timeline band) is not ordered the way some might expect. > > Workaround is to manually assign event track numbers. (See the event > attribute trackNum.) Or create your own algorithm for doing so. Others are > also unhappy with this change, but others were also unhappy with the lack of > performance of the original layout algorithm. The performance goals won out. > > Thanks for using Timeline. We'd like to add your usage to the "In the wild" > section of the wiki, please let us know the url if it is publicly available. > > Regards, > > Larry > > ________________________________ > From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: SIMILE Widgets <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:31:00 AM > Subject: Timeline markers back to front when hosting the Javascript files > locally > > Hi, > > Been using Timeline over the last couple of days and it's worked like > a dream. I downloaded the source and following the instructions to > host the Javascript locally. Everything works but the markers are in > the wrong order from top to bottom e.g. times are listed like this: > > - 14.20 > - 14.15 > - 14.10 > > Whereas when I point to the hosted timeline-api.js, I get the > following (which is correct in my opinion): > > - 14.10 > - 14.15 > - 14.20 > > Any ideas? I've tried 2.1, 2.2 and latest and get the same with all. > > Thanks > Mark --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
