Look for this line of code in compact-painter.js:

previousInstantEvent.getStart().getTime() == evt.getStart().getTime())

I think it's around 131th line. Here you can specify the range of
images which will be grouped.



On May 1, 12:17 am, Paul09 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi & Thank you Alexey,
>
> I will try to swap the order and get the newest items on top. However,
> there will still be items pushed out of sight -  unnecesarily.
>
> That is because I am using the compact painter with images ON the
> timeline, like in this example 
> :http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/examples/compact-painter/compa...
>
> And only images with EXACTLY the same date/time seem to get stacked.
> That's a pity, because if that would be changed to images that are
> within a certain distance from one another (a range), a lot more
> events would fit on the same spot.
>
> Can you / someone push me into the right direction of where tot start
> looking for changing the "EXACT" date/time approach for stacking,
> into a "RANGE" date/time approach for stacking the images?
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> On 27 apr, 07:49, Alexey Smirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
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>
> > Hi Paul,
>
> > > Am I correct that image-stacking (compact painter) only applies to items
> > > that are of exactly the same date/time?
>
> > > I have some crowded places on my timeline with items that are (apparently)
> > > pushed down and out of sight. Stacking these too would be the solution, I
> > > think.
>
> > This question has been raised some time ago. The problem is that the
> > Timeline layout algorithm places the most recent items (for example,
> > recent blog posts if you visualize RSS feed) to the bottom. It applies
> > a sweeping algorithm that starts from older items and places them on
> > top, but the younger items end up being out of sight.
>
> > There is no solution to that except patching the Timeline source code.
> > It is not difficult though to change the direction of sweeping
> > algorithm backward, so that newest items are shown first.
>
> > Alexey
>
> > > Of course I could create hotzones for these crowded places. But as I am
> > > trying to create an 'on-the-fly' system (which pulls the items directly 
> > > from
> > > an often-updated database), this would become a tedious task.
>
> > > Cheers,
> > > Paul
>
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