Hi David, Note that you can have an icon event with start and end dates using original painter:
You do this by saying that the event is an Instant (durationEvent = false) event but supply both start and end dates. As a result you get an "Imprecise Instant Event" that has an icon and a tape. (Albeit the tape is dimmed by default.) And the theme can be used to adjust the event.instant.impreciseOpacity value to 100. John, I don't know how to get Exhibit to tell Timeline that the event is an imprecise instant event, you'll need to check the sw that glues Exhibit to Timeline. Regards, Larry ________________________________ From: David Huynh <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 9:11:44 PM Subject: Re: icons for timeline John Callahan wrote: > I'm trying to add custom icons to events on a Timeline but running into > a problem. > > My events has both start and end dates. From looking at > http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/examples/test_example/test.html, > I believe that I would need durationEvent=false in order to include an > icon. > > I cannot add "durationEvent" to my array as it's being auto generated > through a CMS (Drupal.) I also use Exhibit. This hasn't been a problem > so far as I've been able to set fields specifically in my Timeline view, > such as > > ex:start=".my-start-date-field" > ex:end=".my-end-date-field" > > > Is there a ex:durationEvent so I can define the field name that > represents durationEvent? Or maybe I can use my timelineConstructor > and force all events to have durationEvent=false, such as within > Timeline.createBandInfo? Or maybe I can add an additional item > [durationEvent, false] to each item of the data stream coming in through > some type of javascript callback function? > > > Are any of these even possible? I'm not sure where to start. Thanks > for your help. > Only the "compact painter" will render images for duration events, http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/misc/compact-painter/index2.html But it's not released through Timeline yet, nor is it integrated into Exhibit. If you really want it, then I'd recommend including http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/timeline/api/timeline-api.js before including exhibit-api.js, and then using this trick to construct your own timeline http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Controlling_A_Timeline_Within_An_Exhibit David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
