Thanks Larry and David. I need to look more closely at how Timeline and Exhibit work together. I was able to overcome this issue by creating a second feed that contained only the items that needed icons and left out the end date for these. Not ideal but works for now.
- John Larry Kluger wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
