Thanks so much, Steve and David, for writing back so quickly. I really appreciate it.
David, I hadn't realized that my code was mixing up Exhibit and Timeline, but I understand the "wrapper" relationship between the two, so I can see why mixing them up with cause trouble. Unfortunately, including the Exhibit API (as in the tutorial) with my current variables to try and force local usage of Timeline doesn't work (my code is below). As you said, it was only a possibility, and not a certainty. I know that Exhibit 3.0 Staged is still in beta, and as such, I'm not sure I have enough experience to get it going -- so I think that hosting Exhibit 2.0, and running Timeline 2.3.1, which I'll grab per Steve's repost of Kihara's reply to Milhouse, is probably the way to go. Is that correct? Steve, I hope that my working through this ends up being useful to your issues as well. Best, Paige <script href="http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/api/exhibit- api.js"> var Timeline_ajax_url="http://paigemorgan.net/timeline/src/ajax/api/ simile-ajax-api.js" var Timeline_urlPrefix='http://paigemorgan.net/timeline/timeline_js/'; Timeline_parameters='bundle=true'; </script> <script src="http://paigemorgan.net/timeline/src/webapp/api/timeline- api.js?bundle=true" type="text/javascript"> </script> <link rel="exhibit/data" type="text/tsv" ex:valueSeparator=";" href="egypt.txt"/> On Apr 19, 6:21 am, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: > Paige, I'm glad you found the tutorial useful. The problem you're > having is that you are inappropriately "mixing" exhibit and timeline. > > Timeline (as a standalone framework) is a lot like google maps: it's a > developer library where your own page needs to make a bunch of > javascript api calls to tell the timeline what to do and how to load its > data. Exhibit is a user-friendly *wrapper* for timeline (and google > maps) that takes care of loading the data and invoking the underlying > developer wrapper. Your web page is written for exhibit usage: it > includes a link to the data and expects the library to "take care of > it". If you want to go this route and avoid writing all that javascript > yourself, you need to include the exhibit api (as per my tutorial) and > its time extension to drive the timeline. > > I'm not certain, but if you set timeline variables as you currently do, > then Exhibit's time-extension *might* be smart enough to load your local > copy of timeline. If not, you may need to host a local copy of Exhibit > as well. > > -David > > On 4/18/2012 11:59 PM, Paige Morgan wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I'm trying to get Simile installed locally, using the full > > timeline_source_2.3.0.zip, so that I can customize the units of time. > > > The wiki and other resources pointed me to these instructions, which > > are also contained in the timeline-api.js file > > >http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/source/browse/timeline/trunk/... > > > Those instructions suggest that I ought to be including the following > > lines of code in my<head> section. > > > <script> > > Timeline_ajax_url="http://paigemorgan.net/timeline/src/ajax/api/simile- > > ajax-api.js" > > Timeline_urlPrefix='http://paigemorgan.net/timeline/timeline_js/'; > > Timeline_parameters='bundle=true'; > > </script> > > > <script src="http://paigemorgan.net/timeline/src/webapp/api/timeline- > > api.js?bundle=true" > > type="text/javascript"> > > </script> > > > I am -- but I'm not having any luck loading timeline. The page I'm > > trying to load is here:http://www.paigemorgan.net/timelines/demo.html > > > I tried it with a simple timeline from David Karger's really great > > tutorial herehttp://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Exhibit/CAR/HandsOn/ > > -- which is where I originally learned to use Simile Timeline -- but > > no luck. > > > I've checked the archives for this group, and googled creatively -- > > but I'm not finding any solutions. Can anyone here suggest anything? I > > would be tremendously grateful. > > > Thanks, > > > Paige -- 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.
