timeline intervals settings for the views plugin

First of all, this module rocks and I am starting to use it on alot of my sites ...

Second, I was hoping that there would be an Admin Views form field to alter the width of the time line intervals... not just the height. After I looked at the code, I realized the value I needed to alter was in the actual timeline.js file... and I couldn't find a point to interject a change in that value: intervalPixels: 50 Also, when I looked at the online documentation from the
simile-widgets project page ( http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/wiki/Timeline_CreatingNewThemes ) I realized that alot of functionality was possible if only I could alter the timeline.js per theme.

So I came up with this solution, at the end of this function:

/**
 * Inlude all js and css files that needs the timeline.
 * Depending on the timeline views settings the external SIMILE server is used.
 * Or otherwise a local installation.
 *
 * @return: TRUE if everything could be included properly
 *          FALSE if Simile Exhibit Libraries aren't found
 */
function _timeline_include($timeline_theme) {
  $timeline_mod_path = drupal_get_path('module', 'timeline');

  // Use SIMILE Server
  if (variable_get('timeline_library_source', 'hosted') == 'hosted') {
    $timeline_api = 'http://static.simile.mit.edu/timeline/api-2.3.0/timeline-api.js?bundle=true';
    drupal_set_html_head('<script type="text/javascript" src="'. $timeline_api .'"></script>'); //  We have to wait to D7 to get rid of this: #91250 - fd
  }
  elseif (variable_get('timeline_library_source', 'hosted') == 'local' && $message = timeline_validate_library()) {
    $timeline_lib_path = libraries_get_path('simile_timeline');
    drupal_add_js(file_directory_path() . '/timeline/local_variables.js');
    drupal_add_js($timeline_lib_path . '/timeline_js/timeline-api.js');
  }
  else {
    drupal_set_message(t('Simile Timeline Libraries not found'), 'error');
    return FALSE;
  }

  drupal_add_css($timeline_mod_path . '/css/timeline.css');

  // include custom theme files (if activated)
  if ($timeline_theme != $timeline_mod_path . '/themes/ClassicTheme' && $timeline_theme != FALSE) {
    drupal_add_js($timeline_theme . '/theme.js');
    drupal_add_css($timeline_theme . '/theme.css');
	drupal_add_js($timeline_theme . '/timeline.js');
  } else {
	 drupal_add_js($timeline_mod_path . '/js/timeline.js');
  }  
  return TRUE;
}

By including the timeline.js file in with each theme, you can expose those options to different themes.

Also, I felt very "dirty" by augmenting / adding a theme folder within a module. Is there a way to do this in for of a drupally way? I understand exposing all the options with FAPI is aton of work ...

What do you think about this?

johnvsc