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Re: Help writing LDraw's history
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Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:03:53 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Tim Courtney wrote:
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Travis Cobbs wrote:
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Tim Courtney wrote:
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I’m filling in a little myself right now. You’re the only one who filled in
data in the “milestone” columns. You interpreted that as version numbers.
I think it makes more sense to name the colums “VersionNumber#” to
correspond with the “VersionDate#.” So I did this, and moved each next to
the respective version.
I also highlighted the Original Release Date, Current Ver. Release Date,
and Current Version Number columns as I believe they are the most important
for visualizing this information.
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OK. I rearranged mine to make 0.1 the “Original Release”. I pushed other
versions over and replaced 0.1 in the Misc column with 3.1. Also, I didn’t
like the spreadsheet stripping of the .0, so I added a v prefix to all my
version numbers so they’d be treated as strings. If you know how to force
them to be strings without a prefix, feel free to make that change.
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Thanks. Not sure on the string bit. For starters I’d like to get the data
filled out to the point where I can work on graphing it with Excel, Numbers
or possibly even Illustrator. I’m not as concerned with the string for that
reason as I’ll manually translate the info into a graphic with a callout or a
mouseover callout.
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Good news - I found an XML based dynamic timeline generator. I’ve plugged in a
couple dates on my local machine, and I’m testing for how to deal with events
and spans aesthetically. I’ll post it when I have a bit more info filled in,
then we can start seeing it come together.
-Tim
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| (...) Here is my working file of the timeline: (URL) It's not 100% to what's in the spreadsheet, but it gives a good idea of what's possible. The system has some limitations. I'm not able to add the individual version dates as points along a span, (...) (17 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks. Not sure on the string bit. For starters I'd like to get the data filled out to the point where I can work on graphing it with Excel, Numbers or possibly even Illustrator. I'm not as concerned with the string for that reason as I'll (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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