Indication of Currently Displayed Event

As it’s written, the TimelineJS WP plugin doesn’t provide a reference to the Timeline which is created. There are a few reasons why this is pretty hard to change, and these are the kinds of reasons that have us working on a rewrite of TimelineJS, known as TimelineJS3 (see https://timeline3.knightlab.com/).

TimelineJS3 will be in “beta” in a few weeks. We haven’t yet decided how we’re going to introduce the new version of Timeline via the WordPress plugin. We may release a new plugin, to reduce risk of surprise in changing people to the new Timeline. We’ll post something in this forum when we have that sorted out.

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the reply. Would this be possible to go this if I was using your code directly? Is this something that will be more possible with the V3 release?

Thanks
Andy

If you use the code directly *and* instantiate the Timeline yourself (instead of using the “createStoryJS” function, it might work, but honestly, I came to TimelineJS after it was mostly written and I have had minimal enthusiasm for tracing all of the code paths.

In general, we’d like for TimelineJS3 to support this kind of thing. If you have a reference to a timeline object, you can use its ‘current_id’ property to know which is the current slide, so you can do this:

timeline.getSlideId(timeline.current_id) to get the Slide object for the current slide. Before this all goes into full release, that method name will definitely change to getSlideById, and maybe we’ll add getCurrentSlide()