Navigation-buttons like in network

[felixhayashi]

Hi guys,

The network module has pretty sweet buttons that could be reused for the timeline module as well (which would also create a matching user experience). A tiddlywiki contributor (@kixam) who maintains the timeline-module as plugin for our wiki reused the network buttons very elegantly in the timeline. Maybe you like the idea:

Demo Site http://kixam.github.io/TW5-visjsTimeline/

-Felix

[AlexDM0]

Hi,

We'll see what we can do :) Maybe you should change the css tough so the circle is also grey ;).

Regards,

Alex

[felixhayashi]

We'll see what we can do :)

Thanks

Maybe you should change the css tough so the circle is also grey ;)

Good point :)

[kixam]

hi,

If you go forward with this, it would be nice to have the navpad inside the vis-center div, instead of over the vis-timeline main div, so that it would not overlap with group or x-axis labels.

Also, if I may, I think this thread might be mislabeled? This feature is already available to Network, but here we are discussing the opportunity to have it for Timeline as well.

kixam

[yotamberk]

There is an example of how to do this without an internal option: http://visjs.org/examples/timeline/interaction/navigationMenu.html

[kixam]

That is not quite the same as the navigationButtons option in Network interaction options, that creates the buttons with styles and attaches event handlers, all by itself. This has 2 advantages:

• user code is much simpler; and more importantly,
• user experience would be consistent between Network and Timeline if Timeline would have such a all-including option, i.e. same look and feel, behavior, and style, including across library updates

as for my plugin, it is working fine as it is. The present thread is just a suggestion to make this nice feature available to Vis.js Timeline users out of TiddlyWiki

[yotamberk]

@kixam using a custom navbar is not difficult... I don't agree that having an option like in the network is "much simpler". The example is extremely simple. In terms of consistency, the timeline and network are very different - in implementation, style, options and behavior. I'll reopen this feature, but I can't justify the work on it.