> > ... on the composite view you have different representation of events that > you can click on one event and drill into a bunch of other events that are > contained within that. >
That's pretty much what I have in mind. I have a rough idea of how to do this - essentially introducing some indicator of level into the events - and I think I can even get it to perform reasonably well. But without changing the core event structure, it won't be much better than a kludge. I'm still unable to build timeline from scratch, so it's going to be difficult to do this. I know about handling some of the events, and drawing and hiding tracks/bands, so I'm not totally in the dark. But what I'd really like to do is build some infrastructure that I can use to make subsequent projects easier to do. On Thursday, 11 July 2013 12:42:50 UTC-4, Matt Denman wrote: > > I think I am doing something like what you say now. I have a view where I > show events for several people mixed together. That is the composite view. > However, I can "drill down" to just the details for one person. > > I do that by making a separate UI that allows me to filter out the other > people. > > However, I suspect you may mean that on the composite view you have > different representation of events that you can click on one event and > drill into a bunch of other events that are contained within that. Again, > it would come down to you switching the events shown in the timeline. > > Everything I have seen suggests you need to handle the UI mechanism you > want to "drill down" (click an event, use filter UI, etc.) with, then use > that to get the new data to show in the timeline, which you then recreate > with the new data. > > On Thursday, July 11, 2013 11:37:22 AM UTC-4, Josh Korn wrote: >> >> What I'm looking to do is represent a timeline that's logically a >> composite of several other timelines. >> Obviously, it would be really helpful to be able to "drill down" into a >> given timeline in order to see its constituent pieces and (subsequently) >> collapse the constituents back into the composite timeline. >> >> I don't think I've seen anything in Timeline documentation that points >> out a way to do this. On the other hand, documentation is somewhat sparse, >> so there may exist some way to do this that's not well documented. Also, is >> it possible that such a feature was envisaged but only partially or >> minimally implemented? >> >> If anyone has already tackled this topic, I'd really appreciate you >> letting me know what your research uncovered, particularly thoughts on how >> much effort might be involved in implementing such a feature. >> >> TIA >> Josh >> >> -- 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.
