Thanks Larry! Is there a working example of this somewhere? -David
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:04 AM, LarryK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > First checkin! I've added mouse-wheel scrolling as the new default > behavior: > Using the mouse-wheel will scroll the Timeline forward and backwards > in time. Similar to when you press an arrow key, but no acceleration. > You can scroll faster if you put the mouse into a band that has lower > resolution. -- The mouse scrolls the band that the cursor is in, all > other bands follow-along since they're synchronized. > > Old default behavior on released version is that the mouse-wheel moves > the container or viewport's scrollbar, if it has one. > Old default behavior on the trunk version was to do nothing (NOT > scroll the scrollbar). -- This change happened as part of the zoom > checkin. > > The mouse-wheel now has an explicit setting in the Theme file (scroll, > zoom or default). > > The default setting in the default theme is 'scroll' -- the mouse- > wheel acts as above. > > By setting the the mouse-wheel to default, you can scroll the Timeline > vertically within its container if you have many many events at the > same time. -- I updated the Vertical Scrollbar wiki entry: > http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/wiki/Timeline_VerticalScrollbar > (I realize that calling this setting 'default' might be confusing. It > sets the mouse-wheel to its default behavior. However, that is not the > Timeline default behavior, scrolling is. Any better ideas? Maybe > 'vertical' ? ) > > By setting the mouse-wheel to zoom, you can use halcyon1981's zooming > as an alternative to Hotzones. I created a new wiki page to help > explain this. See > http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/wiki/MouseWheelScrollingAndZooming > Note that if you are currently using Hotzones in your TImelines, you > really should checkout the zooming feature. It's very nice. > > Please try it out and let me know what you think. > > I also added: > CHANGES.txt file -- Please use it to keep track of changes to the > source functionality. > install.sh -- Copies over just the minimum js files to your web server > js directory. Alternative for non-Linux folks is to copy the entire > source to your web server's directory > > Another change: > Minor change to timeline-api.js per my post > http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets/browse_thread/thread/c0a5a1c1fef032f0/080a86a580fdd3f5 > This makes it slightly easier to use your own server for both Timeline > and Simile-Ajax libraries. See the comments in the file timeline- > api.js for info. > > > Comments appreciated. > > Regards, > > Larry > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
