Please keep me posted. If you don't mind (and aren't constrained) sharing some of this, I'd love to see it.
On Monday, 15 July 2013 17:54:13 UTC-4, Matt Denman wrote: > > I'm about to release my version of the code which is much smaller in size. > It is still a collection of JS files that can be combined and minified. I > currently do this via an ASP.NET MVC 4 project. To create the version I > include on http://timeline.kusog.org, I just save the bundled file and > offer that as the JS to use in the project. > > In prior projects, I just nant build scripts with YUI compressor, which > allows me to "build" the js as its own external step. I enjoy using > ASP.NET MVC which lets me switch between using all the JS unbundled for > debugging or use the bundled version. Its just built in so I don't have to > setup the build script for nant. I'll probably check in the nant build > script, but it would require the user to have Java installed along with > other Java packages. The build script can also generate jsdoc > documentation from the comments in the JS too. > > On Monday, July 15, 2013 10:18:20 AM UTC-4, Josh Korn wrote: >> >> ... 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.
