Yes, that was it. All that I needed to do was change setCenterVisibleDate to setMinVisibleDate. This a great utility.
Thanks so much! Joseph On Apr 3, 5:14 pm, Larry Kluger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > Seehttp://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/wiki/Timeline_Moving_the_Time... > esp setMinVisibleDate > > -- If what you mean by "starting" is that you want the left visible edge to > be the current date. > If you want the Timeline to not be visible before today's date, see the > Timeline start/stop theme parameters. > > Larry > > ________________________________ > From: Joseph Marlin <[email protected]> > To: SIMILE Widgets <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 3, 2009 11:12:28 AM > Subject: How to get the timeline to start at current time. > > I had heretofore been centering the timeline at the current time as > follows. > > var d = new Date(); > var t = d.getTime(); > t += d.getTimezoneOffset()*-60000; > d.setTime(t); > tl.getBand(0).setCenterVisibleDate(d); > > However, I think I would really actually just like the timeline to > display itself *starting* at the current time instead of centering > there. > > I considered trying to get it to center itself at a time such that the > current time would appear to be at the start, e.g. getTime() + x days > or something. However, I can't help but think that there would be an > easier way to do it? > > Thanks so much, > Joseph --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
