Hi Larry,

Yes, thanks for that.  Downloaded the trunk version and it now works.

It's a bit of a pain because I have 2 timelines and because I have
different scales, they require slightly different trackNum numbers.  I
am living with one for now and it all works but it does not look as
pretty as it did before! ;-)

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Mark

On Dec 2, 6:13 pm, Larry Kluger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 
> fromhttp://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- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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