Message links are broken

Links are still broken. Anyway, here's how I load bubble contents through Ajax (using jQuery)

      Timeline.DefaultEventSource.Event.prototype.fillInfoBubble = function(element, theme, labeller) {
        jQuery.ajax({
          async: false,
          url: this._link,
          dataType: 'text',
          success: function(data) {
            jQuery(element).html(data)
          }
        })
      }

This cuts down on the generation time of the dynamically loaded json, which doesn't need to generate a complete description for every item in advance.

I would like the bubbles to all be open on page load. Is this possible?

Links are STILL broken.

Why not simply add CustomEventDetailDisplay? here?

Thanks to Wayback Machine, I'm pasting in the above the referenced emails.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080412074628/http://simile.mit.edu/mail/ReadMsg?listId=9&msgId=21293 Naimesh (Hotmail) wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > > > Hello ! Well I am new to timeline and hence would seek for your help > to do following : > > > > 1) What to do display timeline starting, ending date and title > on mouse hover over the timeline event dot ? Please guide. > I can't understand your question. Could you rephrase it?

> 2) I need to add a checkbox in the info window which opens up on > clicking timeline dot and update one field in one table if user checks > that box on. Please guide me. > Add this code after you include timeline-api.js:

<script>

var oldFillInfoBubble =

Timeline.DefaultEventSource?.Event.prototype.fillInfoBubble;

Timeline.DefaultEventSource?.Event.prototype.fillInfoBubble =

function(elmt, theme, labeller) {

oldFillInfoBubble.call(this, elmt, theme, labeller);

var eventObject = this; var div = document.createElement("div"); div.innerHTML = "<input type='checkbox' /> abc"; div.firstChild.onclick = function() {

... do something ... eventObject should give you the

data you need ...

} elmt.appendChild(div);

}

</script>

> 3) The logo in the bottom left of Simile timeline takes up some > space and hence the client wants to display it off, please guide me > how to do so. > I find this question offensive and I will not answer it. You are using our software for free. At least have the courtesy to keep our logo.

> 4) I have added 2 bands one for year and second for month, the > month timeline has got many events on some month which does not gets > displayed because the area is full, so is there a way to scroll it > vertically or some other way so that user can see other events not > viewable at the moment, please guide me. > No, there is no support for scrolling it vertically.

> 5) How I can display off the title of the event which gets > displayed on the right of the dot, please guide me. > I don't understand the question.

David

http://web.archive.org/web/20080412074618/http://simile.mit.edu/mail/ReadMsg?listId=9&msgId=16981 Hi Michael,

Michael Friendly wrote: > I have a student working on a timeline project based on my web site > on the history of data visualization, > http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/ > > A testing version of the timeline is at > http://www.moiz.ca/infovis/milestones/ > with the .xml file at > http://www.moiz.ca/infovis/milestones/timeline.xml > > > Questions: > > BC dates: There is a handful of BC dates in the full database, > and others < 1000. > We've been unable to get timeline to read these in the .xml file, > though we've tried a variety of possibilities. For now, we've just > deleted these events. I believe this bug > has been fixed in the code that reads JSON format, but not for XML. > Have you tried padding zeros to make 4-digit dates, like "0920" and "-0100"?

> Is it possible to control the size / rescale images presented via the > image="" attribute (as one can normally do in html with > <img src="" width="100"> to get thumbs, or is it necessary to produce > the thumbs as separate images? I have several hundred images. > You can have complete control of what goes into the bubble by overriding

Timeline.DefaultEventSource?.Event.prototype.fillInfoBubble

specified near the end of this file

http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/scripts/sources.js

Just put in your own code after you include timeline-api.js.

> Is it possible to specify a resolution for the dates presented in the > timeline? All of the event items have times in years. It doesn't make > any sense to see, in the popup bubble, > Wed. 31 Dec 1304 19:00:00 GMT > for an item that has start="1305" > Once you override fillInfoBubble then it's up to you how to display the date. But by default, there is no fine-grained control of that.

> Categorized events: These events have been categorized in several > ways, e.g., by Form-- Maps, Diagrams, Technology. I see from the Monet > example that one can use different icons. Is there any other way to > group events visually by category? e.g., different text color for the > label, different vertical bands, etc. > To group into different bands, load the events into different event sources (instead of just one). Each band can have its own event source. See this example

http://www.lincolnstein.org/timelines/

The text color can be set in the textColor attribute, e.g.,

<event textColor="red" ... <event textColor="#0000ff" ...

The color attribute is for setting the background color of a duration event (one with an end time).

> End for the timeline: How / where can we specify that the timeline > data ends in a given year, so that one can't scroll right to years > past that date? > Sorry, that's not supported.

> I thought that it should be possible to include simple <b>HTML > formatting</b> within an event like that, but this doesn't work. > Is there something I've missed? > You need to escape < and > as you would inside HTML, as < and >.

Hope that helps,

David

http://web.archive.org/web/20080412074623/http://simile.mit.edu/mail/ReadMsg?listId=9&msgId=18666 Kimberly Aimee Alvarado wrote: > Greetings, > > I found the functions fillDescription, fillTime, and fillInfoBubble at > the bottom of that script. Now how do I override them? Where do I > go? Do I need to house the manipulated code locally? Thank you very > much. > You can add your own code after you include timeline-api.js and write something like this:

Timeline.DefaultEventSource?.Event.prototype.fillDescription = function(elmt) {

...

};

David

> >> Message: 4 >> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:19:20 -0400 >> From: David Huynh <hidden?> >> Subject: Re: Formatting the content within a bubble >> To: General List <hidden?> >> Message-ID: <hidden?> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Michael, >> >> I presume you meant for Timeline... Take a look at the bottom of this file: >> >> http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/scripts/sources.js >> >> You need to override those functions fillDescription, fillTime, and >> fillInfoBubble as needed. >> >> David >> >> Michael Crawford wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I've been searching for a way to change the layout of the content >>> within a bubble. >>> For instance, I'd like to display the date as F j, Y (in php date >>> terms) and move it to below the title. >>> Once I get this, I'm sure we will want to change more. >>> Can anyone point me to how to do this? >>> Thanks much in advance. >>> >>> regards, >>> michael >>> >>> >>> Michael Crawford >>> Rock River Star >>> internet development and consulting >>> http://www.rockriverstar.com >>> 215.609.4470 >>> hidden? <mailto:[email hidden]> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> General mailing list >>> hidden? >>> http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 5 >> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:56:33 -0700 >> From: "Scott Morrison" <hidden?> >> Subject: Re: Loading large datasets into Longwell. >> To: "General List" <hidden?> >> Message-ID: >> <hidden?> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> >>> Please let us know the good the bad and the ugly as feedback from the >>> field is very valuable to use (you know, when you stare at something for >>> too long you get a little blind so we are not as good at improving it at >>> this point). >>> >> So far I've only done one experiment with a largish data set (all RDF >> generated from the arXiv's OAI export, scraped from arXiv article >> index.html pages, or from citebase's OAI export). A great strength of >> faceted browsing for those generating RDF metadata from other sources >> is that it's often easy and painless to find unexpected problems with >> your metadata. For example, I discovered lots of problems with my >> parsing of comma separated fields into separate RDF statements, and >> also found some strange bugs with reduplicated data coming from the >> aXiv. >> >> My biggest piece of feedback so far would really be that you need some >> better documentation! Nothing is too hard once you've poked around a >> bit, but since it is in principle so easy to get up and going, it >> would be nice to have sufficient instructions to do so. (Things like: >> it's using sesame for the rdf store, which files contain the rdf store >> configuration, that it's useing lucene, where lucene stores it data, >> etc, would all be great on the website. Also I'm still having trouble >> understanding how Longwell 'names' nodes; I can't seem to get it to >> use foaf:names, for example. There's an email indexed on google >> somewhere about this, but nothing else.) It's a far more polished >> program than you'd ever guess from the documentation. Perhaps one of >> the dangers of programs produced in academia -- too little incentive >> to hang around for the boring documentation part of the work! (I say >> this from a position of considerably deeper culpability than whoever >> worked on Longwell ...) >> >> Scott

http://web.archive.org/web/20080412074608/http://simile.mit.edu/mail/ReadMsg?listId=9&msgId=10303 Ernesto Bautista wrote: > How do you go about customizing what goes into the event bubble, and > where things are placed. For my project, I would like to have the > start and end dates right below the title and above the description. > I want to have just the dates shown, I don't need UTC time displayed > for my purposes. I've tried a few things, but none of them work. > Usually what happens is (I'm assuming) the date/time information I've > changed is no longer readable to the code, so it skips displaying it. > > I also wonder if it is possible to embed a Flash file into the event > bubble. Anyway, thanks for making a great app! You can take complete control of what goes into the bubble by overriding |fillInfoBubble(elmt, theme, labeller)| in |Timeline.DefaultEventSource?.Event. |Fine fillInfoBubble at the bottom of this file:

http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/scripts/sources.js

To override that function, in your own code, write:

Timeline.DefaultEventSource?.Event.prototype.fillInfoBubble = function(elmt, theme, labeller) {

...

}

Hope that helps,

David

http://web.archive.org/web/20080412074613/http://simile.mit.edu/mail/ReadMsg?listId=9&msgId=14331 Christoph Pingel wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just beginning to explore timeline, and it has been a nice > experience so far. Now, I'd like to call a custom javascript function > from the link under the title of an event bubble. It seems however > that the links are treated as relative, so I end up with urls like > http://mysite.org/tl/javascript:foo, which is not what I want. Is > there way to change this behaviour to absolute urls in some settings > file or so? Any pointers to relevant documentation are also > appreciated, I didn't find any. > Look in this file

http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/scripts/sources.js

at the bottom for the function fillInfoBubble. You can override it after you include timeline-api.js with your own code

<script>

Timeline.DefaultEventSource?.Event.prototype.fillInfoBubble =

function(elmt, theme, labeller) {

// do whatever to fill elmt

};

</script>

You have complete control of what goes into the bubble.

David