line order

[justin]

Hello,

I am interested in having a timeline where the order of the elements
(I think "tapes" is right?) are preserved. Here's an example: Lets say
I have 5 cars and I would like to know the name of the person who is
driving each car at any particular point in time. Each car would have
its own tape and I'd like those tapes to always be presented
vertically sorted by license plate number.

I saw a few threads about this in the archive of this mailing list and
I was wondering what the state of this is or if anyone has any
suggestions.

Thank you,

-j

[justin]

Hmm, let me clarify what I'm trying to do. I want to control which
events go in a particular band and then maintain the vertical order of
the bands. Thank you for any help.

-j

[Larry Kluger]

Hi Justin,

See the trackNum attribute, described here:
http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/wiki/Timeline_EventSources

Works for original-painter bands.
Does not work with overview bands at this time.
Status with other painters is unknown.

Regards,

Larry

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From: justin <jta...@gmail.com>
To: SIMILE Widgets <simile-...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:00:20 AM
Subject: Re: line order

[justin]

Cool, that does exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

[Thomas]

Hi!

First, thanks for this awesome little app! Im using this in Google
Spreadsheets and i have a question...

Would it be possible to use the "trackNum" variable in the Google
Spreadsheet version? (Im not sure how the Google Widget relates to
SIMILE exactly but i think this is the only place to ask)

/Thomas

[Larry Kluger]

Hi Thomas,

Unfortunately, as far as I know, the Google spreadsheet Timeline widget is not being maintained. I don't even know where its source is located.

David?

Once you locate its source, you will be able to update it to use the trackNum event attribute.

Regards,

Larry

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From: Thomas <thomas.j...@gmail.com>
To: SIMILE Widgets <simile-...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:35:14 AM
Subject: Re: line order

[Thomas]

Hi!

This seems to be the gadget
http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/114448529270295376137/timeline-gadget-v1-r4.xml

With my nonexistent coding skills i think i can read out that it loads
http://static.simile.mit.edu/ajax/api-2.0/simile-ajax-api.js The
problem is that the gadget itself only looks for the basic columns
like start, end description and so on.

(A few days after writing here, this gadget google seems to have
removed it completely from the menus. It can still be manually added
though.)

I will try to reach the creator of the gadget. You had a link in your
wiki http://jrochelle.googlepages.com/97g-timeline-about.html so it
should be possible.



Thanks anyway!

/Thomas

On Mar 26, 9:08 pm, Larry Kluger <wex...@kluger.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Unfortunately, as far as I know, the Google spreadsheet Timeline widget is not being maintained. I don't even know where its source is located.
>
> David?
>
> Once you locate its source, you will be able to update it to use the trackNum event attribute.
>
> Regards,
>
> Larry
>
> ________________________________

> From: Thomas <thomas.johans...@gmail.com>