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Timeline viewer help

This page refers to the latest timeline-view-tk release. You can open it with Help > Online help.

Setting up the program

After downloading and installing the program as described on the download page, you might want to make some preparations in order to make it accessible on your desktop.

Operation

Launching the application

You can start the timeline viewer by dragging and dropping a *.csv *file onto the desktop shortcut, then this project will be opened.
If you start the timeline viewer via clicking or double-clicking on the program icon, the project from the last session will be automatically reopened, if there is one.
Otherwise a blank timeline view appears, and you can click on the File > Open menu item to load an existing project file.
In case there isn’t one, you may want to click on File > New to create a csv file. Then you can edit this file with your standard application for csv files, which may be a spreadsheet application, and enter your events.

Mouse scrolling

Scroll the timeline horizontally with Shift-Mousewheel.
Scroll the timeline vertically with the mousewheel.
Scroll the timeline in any direction by right-clicking on the canvas and dragging the mouse.
Increase or reduce the time scale with Ctrl-Mousewheel.
Change the distance limits for stacking with Shift-Ctrl-Mousewheel.

Shifting an event in time

Hold down the Shift button and click on the event marker, then drag it with the mouse. This will move the event forward or backward in time while keeping the duration.

Shifting the event end

Hold down the Ctrl and Shift buttons and click on the event marker, then drag it with the mouse. This will increase or decrease the event’s duration while keeping the start date/time.

Hint

Shifting operations with the mouse can be aborted with the Esc key before releasing the mouse button.
Shifting operations with the mouse can be undone with .