Edit Animations time

[gregroberts]

I'm trying to add functionality to my app which allows users to control how frequently the graph is rendered (with a view to getting the app to work on slow machines). I'm using a jquery-ui slider to control the animationsTime setting in ms, but when the value is changed, nothing changes in the graph. Here's the code of the slider:

    $('#graph-rendertime').slider({
        min:100,
        max:1000,
        values: [500],
        slide: function(event, ui) {
            //change the animations time
            s.settings({
                animationsTime: ui.values[0]
            });
            //output this value to the config box
            $('#rendertime').html(ui.values[0]);
            //refresh the graph
            s.refresh();
        }
    });

Have I got the wrong end of the stick regarding what this parameter controls? Am I implementing it the wrong way, or what?

[jacomyal]

Actually, the animationsTime parameter is only used as the default value for the sigma.plugins.animate plugin.

I am not sure to understand what you want this parameter to change, could you be a bit more precise?

[gregroberts]

My intention is to change the how often the forceatlas2 layout re-renders.

It's possible this is a silly question, but it would be nice to know, anyway.

[jacomyal]

OK, I see what you want. Currently, when FA2 is running, each time it finishes to compute a new state for the graph, it triggers the rendering process.

To modify that, you would have to modify how it interacts with conrad.js to trigger the rendering only once every N steps, or something similar. That would actually be a useful setting to customize how FA2 works.

I keep this in mind to change it as soon as I can.

[gregroberts]

Awesome, thanks for the explanation