Well, on my Dell 30" monitor, I wouldn't have to scroll vertically to see
24 time slots for the day zoom in compact view.


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Matt Denman <[email protected]
> wrote:

> That example would be fantastic to have another label on the left for the
> other time dimension.
>
> For your example showing years, I'd think that other dimension would be
> months, such that the top slot would always be jan.
>
> Another example would be if the main timespan was a day rather than a
> year, the other time dimension could be hours, such that there would be 24
> slots available for each day for an image like you show.
>
> I can see you don't stack vertically like that.  Each event for a given
> year is just stacked to fill the space, but there would be more info if the
> spacing was by the months those events happened and you had to scroll
> vertically to see it all.  The compact view supports that types of vertical
> scrolling.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Matt Denman <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> That example is much different than the one shown in the timeline
>> examples page.  That might be a fascinating way to show screen shots from
>> security cameras that would let you zoom in and out of time to see more
>> frames and then click to view the video.
>>
>> If you're interested, I'd like to get the code for your version of
>> compact painter.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:32 AM, fgalah <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Matt - thanks for all of your work on this. I am (slowly!) trying to
>>> build an app that displays events in square boxes. I have used the compact
>>> painter but tweaked the code. I can't show you any code at the moment
>>> because it uses secure data so I've tried to attach a screenshot. Each
>>> event contains a URL for a thumbnail which is inserted as the background
>>> image of a div tag, on top of which the title of the event is written. The
>>> bubble then shows the full event info if the user clicks on an event tile.
>>>
>>> So I am using an extension of the compact painter but I am not properly
>>> trained in this stuff so I may be doing things in a stupid manner.
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9-yO-Uv3Um4/Ud0bLgin2uI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/7aFgBFO3xy8/s1600/timeline.jpg>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:14:37 UTC+1, Matt Denman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There is only one demo of the compact layout, which has lots of broken
>>>> image links and some interesting weekday background color highlighting, but
>>>> otherwise doesn't seem to do much different from the original layout.  I
>>>> built a demo and what it appears to do is allow the events to scroll when
>>>> there is not enough height for all the events, however it appears to not be
>>>> implemented well.
>>>
>>>  --
>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the
>>> Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group.
>>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit
>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/simile-widgets/paYo_zFK268/unsubscribe
>>> .
>>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to
>>> [email protected].
>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets.
>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"SIMILE Widgets" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.


Reply via email to