SV: SV: &Containers

[Roger L. <ro...@ro...>]

Hello Meelis, I can clearly see your problem.
Unfortunately it's not a Timeline problem but wxWidgets problem. I myself is a windows user and can't at the moment run Ubutu. I have to ask someone else using Ubuntu or try to vagrant up an Ubuntu  virtual machine to look deeper into this problem. It's a font size problem I guess.
If you want to experiment yourself with the font size for containers you can modify the file in timelinelib/features/experimental/ experimentalfeaturecontainersize.py. Change the value of constant FONT_SIZE = 8 to a lower value and see if it helps (for container label texts).

The problem with the preferences dialog is the same. It's probably a font size issue.

The third problem with the event showing up as a point event is another issue. Timeline shows point events above the dividing line. An event is considered as a point event when the event length in pixels is smaller than a specific value (don't exactly remembers that value). 
So when you zoom - events can show up both over and under the center line.
If you show the point event as a period event (under the center line) there will be no room to display the text in that event.
You can draw a picture and show us how you would like it to look if the point event should be drawn as a period event under the center line.

Best Regards
Roger Lindberg



-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
Från: Meelis Friedenthal [mailto:mee...@gm...] 
Skickat: den 27 februari 2015 10:48
Till: Roger Lindberg
Ämne: Re: SV: &Containers

Dear Roger Lindberg,

Thanks for you reply. I have made a mockup of the floating textbox (timeline-mockup.png).

I have now collected other usage remarks that have arisen. Besides the "label-problem" (timeline-01.png) I noted that also the preferences dialog box is on Ubuntu (14.04) somewhat clipped (timeline-pref.png).

Further, it seems that I can't find a way to control the amount of data that is shown on the timeline. For example, the data line for Heidelberg on timeline-01.png is only shown as a floating box (when I zoom in, then at some point it starts to show, but I would prefer an option to have it visible at all times). Also the svg export seems to overlap and clip the data (timeline-universities.svg).

If you would need my system specs etc, I would be happy to provide that.

With all the best and thanks for your work, Meelis

On 23.02.2015 20:14, Roger Lindberg wrote:
> Hello Meelis, thanks for your interest in Timeline.
> Can you send a screenshot that shows your label-problem?
> If you had a floating textbox, where would you like it to be drawn? Can you make a sketch?
> Best Regards
> Roger Lindberg
>
>
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Meelis Friedenthal [mailto:mee...@gm...]
> Skickat: den 23 februari 2015 10:54
> Till: the...@li...
> Ämne: &Containers
>
> Hi! Thanks a lot for the tool, I'm using it for creating historical timelines and I'm overall very happy with it. I use containers for grouping together events - there is an option to expand the container to show also the container name, but on Ubuntu (14.04) I have only upper portion of the text visible.  However, I would ideally like to have an option for floating textbox for that purpose (or text outside the container). Similar as it is for description, but always visible, so when I zoom in or out it is still possible to see the label.
>
> Many thanks again,
> Meelis
>
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