Hi Thaddeus,
Consulting the famous book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information," leads to a couple of ideas: 1) Put the number after or before the event description (as part of the event's description). 2) create miniature graphs as different icons, one for each possible magnitude. The graphs would include an axis of zero line so you could tell if the event's magnitude was more or less than 0. 3) create a miniature bar graph as the different icons, and use the color red for negative values, black for positive values. It is easy to specify different icons and labels on a per event basis using the stock Timeline library We'd like to include a link to your finished Timeline when it is done, so be sure to send it to the mailing list when ready. Regards, Larry ________________________________ From: tcooper <[email protected]> To: SIMILE Widgets <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 6:34:57 PM Subject: Events With A Magnitude Value -- How To? I am working on a timeline plotting scientific data. On top of that we want to plot events. I am able to get the events to properly plot but we also need the event to have a value (positive or negative). Looking through the source it seems that this might not be possible. Does anyone know of a way to add a magnitude to an event (say -3 or 5)? Thanks very much. --Thaddeus O. Cooper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
