Timeline *does* put events in the same row if there is no overlap. You'll note that "The Old Guitarist" does overlap with "Portrait of Pablo Picasso" - Timeline uses a reverse iterator to loop through events - this means that when painting two overlapping events, the earlier event will be the one pushed down to make room for the later event.
--Mike On May 13, 2010, at 11:31 AM, alex mitchell wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for the pointer. However, this isn't quite what I had in mind. I was > hoping that there would be some way to force events to appear on the same > row within a band. For example, in the third band in the example you listed, > the events "The Old Guitarist" and "Portrait of Pablo Picasso" do not line > up at the same y co-ordinates, even though the text of "The Old Guitarist" > does not overlap with that of "Portrait of Pablo Picasso". They are in the > same band, but are not vertically aligned. I would like to be able to insist > that, if there is no overlap, events appear in the same row. Is this > possible? > > thanks, > Alex > > > On 5/13/10 1:57 AM, "mleden" <mle...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> AFAIK, the best way to simulate that would be using the "filtered >> event source" feature of Timeline. I no longer have publicly >> available code that illustrates this, but I based my coding on this >> excellent example: >> http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/projects/timeline-exhibit/timeline-exhibit >> 2.html >> >> I recommend that you first get your Timeline working with just a >> single "band". Then, using the source code from the above example as >> reference, introduce the "constructFilteredEventSource" >> functionality. Each Timeline band will represent a single person's >> tasks. Needless to say, the more bands that you introduce, the >> heavier the drag on performance. >> >> HTH, >> -Mark >> >> >> On May 11, 9:35 pm, alex mitchell <lex...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'd like to create a timeline to represent tasks in a project, with each row >>> in the timeline representing a different person's tasks, assuming >>> non-overlapping start and end dates. To do this, I'm hoping to be able to >>> specify which row a given event appears on. For example, referring to the >>> "religions" >>> example:https://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/religions/religions.html >>> I'd like to be able to specify that, in the third band, "Samaria, Judea, >>> Idumea under Roman" and "Tiberius, Roman Emperor" appear in the same row. >>> >>> Does anyone have any suggestions either how to do this out-of-the-box, or >>> pointers as to where the code would need to be modified to add this? >>> >>> thanks! >>> Alex >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> For more options, visit this group >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en. > > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en. > -- 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. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en.
