I guess I have one further question: IS it possible to host Timeline, without hosting the rest of Exhibit? I'd gotten the idea that it was possible from instructions on pages like this one: http://simile-widgets.googlecode.com/svn/timeline/tags/2.2.0/src/webapp/api/timeline-api.js -- which are duplicated in a number of places on the web. That was why I'd been trying to do it this way in the first place.
Thanks again, Paige On Apr 19, 7:55 am, Paige Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
