Hi Wayne,

Congrats on your Timeline project!

You can shade the background of a time period by using a "decorator" 
For an example, see the JFK timeline. 
I made some improvements to the decorator code that are currently only in the 
trunk version. In particular, you may want to use a null label for the weekend 
rather than a label of "weekend" -- if you want a null label, download and use 
the trunk version. See the changes file in the trunk.

Suggested algorithm:

First, find the start of the first weekend that is 7 days (or fewer) before 
your first event. That way you'll be sure to color the weekend that is *before* 
your first event.

Then loop, adding 7 days to the first weekend date, through your last event 
date + 7 days. 
For every iteration, add a weekend highlighter.

The javascript date object's methods should be adequate for all of the above 
calculations.

You may also want to use the start and end features which limit the entire 
Timeline (instead of being infinite.) This feature is also only available on 
the trunk ver at this time. One of the new trunk examples demos how to use it.

Please post your weekend highlighting code as an example so others can use it 
in the future.

Thanks,

Larry





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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: SIMILE Widgets <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 5, 2008 4:35:44 AM
Subject: Different coloring for weekends?


Hi,

So I've got my basic timeline up and running, have 2 bands the top
showing days and the bottom weeks. I would like to know where it is
possible to shade the weekends different colors? I see that there are
hotzones but it looks like you must specify the start and end date -
which would mean I would need to create many many hotzones. Is there a
way of doing this so that they repeat automatically or is there a
better way?

Any ideas or pointers would be great
thanks
Wayne

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