Hi !
>From my personal feeling:This is not really well documented and I had
the same stress. Here a snippet, which I made working in my first
example:
var evt = new Timeline.DefaultEventSource.Event
({
id: null,
start: Timeline.DateTime.parseGregorianDateTime(startdate),
end: Timeline.DateTime.parseGregorianDateTime(enddate),
latestStart: null,
earliestEnd: null,
instant: durationEvent,
text: taskname,
description: taskdesc,
image: eventimage,
link: "http://www.somewhere.com";,
icon: eventicon,
color: eventcolor,
textColor: eventtextcolor,
className: null,
tapeImage: null,
tapeRepeat: null,
caption: "Just a hint !",
eventID: null,
trackNum: null
});
var es = tl.getBand(0).getEventSource();
es.add(evt);
tl.layout();
This code refers to alreading existing variables elsewhere
on my code.
This is a scripted event. What you are using is to use
the ajax interface to load from a url. I use this to update
my panel for new incoming events:
tlEventSource.loadJSON(json, document.location.href);
But this is json, not a scripted insert and so - naturally - you
cannot refer to local variables!
Hope, this helps!
br++mabra
On Jun 16, 10:16 pm, John S <faceless...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I feel like I'm hung up on one big step right now. Since this is all
> done through ajax, I'm updating/creating/editing on the client side,
> and I've been digging through the discussion pages and documentation,
> and I found this code to help with dynamically handling events, but I
> can't get them to load, and I'm really stumped on why.
>
> var eventsJson = [
> {
> "start": timestart,
> "title": title,
> "icon": icon}
>
> ];
>
> eventSource.loadJSON({ "events": eventsJson },
> document.location.href);
>
> timestamp, title, and icon are all variables. the date is formatted
> like this, 2007-05-05 22:00:00.
>
> There aren't any errors being generated either, so I'm really not sure
> why this isn't working, but I'd definitely appreciate any feedback
> anyone might have.
>
> On Jun 15, 11:53 am, John S <faceless...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Mike, thanks for the response. I'm really starting to play around with
> > SIMILE and get my feet wet with it.
>
> > I'm currently working on a way to load content more dynamically. Right
> > now I'm loading it with a JSON call, and I wanted to see if there was
> > a way to clear the current events and assign all new ones? This will
> > reflect filtering by category options that I have in place for my maps
> > already. I am able to rebuild the JSON string without any problems,
> > but I'm having a hard time finding any very specific documentation.
>
> > I also wanted to see, does anyone know a page that shows all of the
> > event params that gives a desc of them? I'm currently going by example
> > just viewing the sample timelines, but I was hoping there was
> > something a bit more official and complete.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > On Jun 13, 9:08 am, Michael Nosal <mno...@mitre.org> wrote:
>
> > > John,
> > > This is perfectly fine to do.
> > > All that the Simile loaders do is extract data from a data source (JSON,
> > > XML, SPARQL) create new Event objects and push into an EventSource
> > > object. It's really easy to write your own function to do the same.
>
> > > With a little extra work, creating/editing/removing timeline elements is
> > > also straightforward to do. You don't need to wipe out the entire
> > > timeline, just manipulate the Events inside an EventSource and call
> > > .paint() when you're ready to update the timeline display. You can create
> > > new events, edit existing ones and remove old ones. This can be done with
> > > a little UI for the user inside the browser, or you could be fetching
> > > updates from a server (e.g. an RSS feed of events) for a dynamic display.
>
> > > --Mike
>
> > > On Jun 10, 2011, at 11:15 AM, John S wrote:
>
> > > > I'm just getting started with SIMILE, and I have to express that I'm
> > > > very impressed with this. I'm currently working on a project that
> > > > initially took me to the TIMEMAP project, but after looking at how it
> > > > integrates with google maps, I decided this is where I should be
> > > > working from directly.
>
> > > > I wanted to just get a bit of conversation moving on how feasible this
> > > > sounds.. My project at the moment is a google maps wizard using v3 of
> > > > their api. The wizard does a bit of everything, clustering, category
> > > > filters, 2d sortable arrays of all visible markers, and a slew of
> > > > other smaller features. I initially looked into TIMEMAP because it's
> > > > built to use SIMILE, but after looking closer, they create a timemap,
> > > > and create the map inside of it, which doesn't work for the additional
> > > > functionality that I have in place already.
>
> > > > What I'd like to do.. I'd like to be create a custom loader that
> > > > doesn't use xml, instead I'd like to send it an array of map markers.
> > > > All of the same data from the xml can be inside the markers, and I'd
> > > > just create my own loader.
>
> > > > The extended functionality I'd need would be the ability to load,
> > > > modify, and remove items in the timeline on an individual basis -
> > > > dynamically. As a worst case, I could wipe the timeline and have it
> > > > reload the new info, though I'd rather not go that route.
>
> > > > I wanted to see what you guys thought about this, and if it's very
> > > > possible? I know SIMILE is a pretty impressive tool, but I haven't
> > > > been able to dig through it enough yet to see if some of these
> > > > features already exist or not. What does everyone think about this? Do
> > > > you see a lot of issues with something like this or does this sound
> > > > like something pretty feasible?
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