I use a horizontal timeline which through the day gradually gets more and more items added to it (that tend to overlap).

When there are lots of items, this looks quite good, with the items being on top of each other and their height sized correctly so they all fit on the screen.

However, when there are only one or two items on the grid in different time periods, they span the entire screen vertically - and this looks a little bad from a UI perspective.

Is there anyway to maintain the resizing of the items when more are added while preventing them from going over a particular height.

Basically, it would be nice to have a property that stated what the maximum height an item could reach was.

Thoughts?

Any thoughts on how I might do it manually? Maybe with a bit of a hack on a render event or something?

I wouldn't mind trying the example. It's worth a go - if it's not too much effort.

You say the max item idea has been added to the list of requests. How long is it likely to take for a version with this in to come out? - Just an estimate would be helpful.
(We've just had a release of the software i'm writing, so it would be good to know so we can plan this to fit with our next test-release cycle).

Thanks for your help by the way! The quick responses are really appreciated.

It does behave a little strangely doesn't it

I think probably we'll have to wait for your next release.

If you want us to beta test it before your release date, let me know - i'd be very happy to try out the new functionality in our application.

Thanks for giving the posting the sample project - I might try and play around with it a bit, see if I can get it to suit our needs.