Mike, I do not see a 'remove()' function on the decorator. Is this a custom thing you wrote?
--Trudy On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Michael Nosal <[email protected]> wrote: > You need to call .remove() on the decorator. > e.g. > > Timeline._Band.prototype.removeAllDecorators = function() { > for (var i=0,l=this._decorators.length; i < l; i++) { > this._decorators[0].remove(); > this._decorators.splice(0,1); > } > } > > I've done exactly as you describe (add a highlight decorator to show the > current time) and I found it more convenient to add this as a "special" > decorator to the band itself, so I could remove and re-add just the > decorator for the current time without having to worry about the other > decorators that might be in the band. > > --Mike > > > On Mar 15, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Trudy wrote: > > > > > I have a timeline with six bands, and I draw a PointHighlightDecorator > > across all of the bands at the current time at startup. What I would > > like to do is have this decorator move along with the current time. > > > > I have set up a timer that fires every second, and then a new > > PointHighlightDecorator gets drawn on the timeline. The problem is > > that I cannot remove the old one. Here is my code so far (that doesn't > > work): > > > > <code> > > for ( var i=0; i < tl._bands.length; i++ ) > > { > > //var numdecorators = tl._bands[i]._decorators.length; > > tl._bands[i]._decorators[0] = null; // memory leak?? Want > to erase > > the old one. > > > > var newdecorator = new Timeline.PointHighlightDecorator({ > > date: > Timeline.DateTime.parseGregorianDateTime(date = new > > Date()), > > color: "#993300", > > opacity: 50 > > }); > > > > tl._bands[i]._decorators[0] = newdecorator; > > newdecorator.initialize(tl._bands[i], tl); > > > > > > } > > > > tl.layout(); > > </code> > > > > I do not know how to safely remove decorators from a band. Nulling > > them out does not remove them from the timeline once they've been > > drawn. > > > > Thanks for any inputs! > > > > --Trudy > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
