Thanks! I have already patched in a similar solution, you can see code at http://twitlines.net/javascripts/twitlines.js
The layout still leaves something to be desired when there is a high density of tweets (ie, if you search for #haiti); I will continue to tweak it Mike On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Alexey Smirnov <ale...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi mt, > > > Is there a way to do this without ripping apart the layout algorithm? > > Yes, there is a fairly easy solution to your problem. But first I will > describe why the newer events appear on top of the older ones. This is > because Timeline sorts all events in the reverse order before > displaying them. Here is an example that demonstrates the default > order: > > http://alexeysmirnov.name/playground/test2.html > > I have added a flag > > eventOrder: Timeline.FORWARD, > > that makes it possible to change that. Along with a few updates of the > algorithm that chooses a free track the modified timeline generates > the following result: > > http://alexeysmirnov.name/playground/test2-forward.html > > As you can see, I am hosting the Timeline on my own website. You can > either use it in your application through <script> tags or download > the modified JS: > > > http://alexeysmirnov.name/playground/timeline/timeline_js/timeline-bundle.js > > Alexey > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Mike Travers <mtrav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've got a little hack where I've hooked up Twitter the Simile > > timeline widget. You can check it out at http://twitlines.net . > > > > I did some patching of the timeline code to make things look the way I > > wanted, but there was one bit that caused me grief: I want the events > > to stack differently. Right now if two events overlap in time, the > > later one is drawn above the earlier one. For this application at > > least, it would be better to do it the other way, so things read in a > > more natural way. I could not find an easy way to do this. The way > > tracks are allocated seems to be pretty hard-wired. Is there a way to > > do this without ripping apart the layout algorithm? > > > > Thanks, > > mt > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SIMILE Widgets" group. > > To post to this group, send email to simile-widg...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > simile-widgets+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<simile-widgets%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en. > > > > > > > > >--
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