Thanks Larry,

I'm created an Issue (Issue 10) to summarize this discussion.

Unfortunately I don't have the experience with javascript and browser- 
based applications to investigate this.  OTOH, FWIW (not much!) I'm  
happy to test and help debug any changes :)

--J

On Sep 14, 2008, at 12:28 PM, LarryK wrote:

>
> Hi James,
>
> The change in layout was introduced as part of the changes from ver 1
> to ver 2. (Before my time.)
>
> David H discusses it here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets/browse_thread/thread/76d0e3469d6b7858
> and here
> http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets/browse_thread/thread/e2333616479dc63d/
>
> It sounds like it is a tricky problem overall. My guess though is that
> the use of the rows could be reversed as you mention in your post.
>
> My suggestions:
> #1, Most important, please file this issue as a bug in the issue
> tracker. Please include the references to David's messages above. That
> way we won't lose sight of the issue.
>
> #2, If you want to investigate the issue further yourself, you'll need
> to go spelunking through the source of the event painter code. You can
> use svn to compare the differences between the files. However, as
> David mentions, there was a fundamental design change as part of the
> ver 2 work. My suggestion is to ignore the v1 files and focus on
> understanding how the v2 painter lays outs the events.
>
> Please keep us informed on your progress.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 12, 11:25 pm, James Howison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Working with SVN I noticed that the layout is a little different than
>> the MIT hosted files.
>>
>> For one thing, my titles aren't truncated, and wrap to other lines.
>>
>> More importantly,  events that overlap, and so get moved to different
>> parts of the layout, are reversed, in the sense that the lower events
>> start earlier.  Using mit the higher events start earlier, which  
>> looks
>> more natural.  Hmmm, this stuff is hard to describe :)
>>
>> eg: with MIT (and my preferred)
>>
>> Event 1
>>    Event 2
>>        Event 3
>>
>> with SVN:
>>
>>        Event 3
>>    Event 2
>> Event 1
>>
>> I saw this same behavior with LarryK's zooming example and all the
>> examples running Jetty and SVN.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Also have some defaults, perhaps trackHeight and trackGap, changed
>> between MIT and SVN?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
> >


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