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Re: Help writing LDraw's history
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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:21:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Tim Courtney wrote:
   In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Tim Courtney wrote:
   In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Travis Cobbs wrote:
   This was the best I could come up with:

http://www.halibut.com/~tcobbs/ldraw/private/timeline.html

I created one big event for LDView spanning from its original release until Dec 31 2010, and then created a point event for each release.

--Travis

Hmm, yeah I’m a bit disappointed in how it doesn’t let you group events so they show up in the same place horizontally. So, if we want to use this in its current state, we’d have to drop the version dates which isn’t good.

I hope the group that put this out gets back to me. There was no one contact for Timeline, so I sent one of the professors over the project page the note. Hopefully he’ll get the message to the right person and I’ll hear back.

It would be nice if you could just contain events within a group tag and that would force them to the same line provided they don’t overlap.

The alternative timelines I’ve checked out have either fewer features or don’t display as nicely as we’d want for this. The original seems to be the best so far, and is really only lacking a couple features to make it ideal.

Is anyone here good with javascript? I looked at the source .html file for the timeline and it references this JavaScript file on the project server:

http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/timeline-api.js

I wonder if someone could go in and modify this and build the grouping funcionality, and we can host the .js files on a web server and further build out the timeline?

-Tim

I entered the MLCad dates that Willy posted into the XML building off of Travis’ LDView input. I also grouped LDView and MLCad items within comments. The idea would be to push out a new version of the script that renders the timeline to support our requirements. This is the most extensible timeline of the ones we’ve seen so I think it’s OK to capture the data in it.

This updated timeline looks ugly because it doesn’t handle consecutive events in a straight line well, yet.

http://www.timcourtney.net/ldraw-timeline/timeline.html

-Tim



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  Re: Help writing LDraw's history
 
Hey, before this history thread drops completely outta site... Is there any way to restore the historical LDraw and LEdit tutorial that used to be available here? (URL) (17 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Help writing LDraw's history
 
(...) The alternative timelines I've checked out have either fewer features or don't display as nicely as we'd want for this. The original seems to be the best so far, and is really only lacking a couple features to make it ideal. Is anyone here (...) (17 years ago, 25-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)  

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