Trying to implement calendar

[sturgis]

Edit: Ok, posted the splash stack (named financial mish mash) on rev online that goes with the funcalc script.

Oh, DOH, forgot to put the splashstack up. As for downloading, till I put up the zips, I think you can do a right click and save as to get the file. I'll see what I can do to fix funCalc. I'll zip em up together and repost to revonline.

Thanks for the nice comments.

Hi Sturgis,
thank you for the well commented example. I try to get my head around the datagrid. That helps.
To access the nutrition example one can type

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go stack url "http://bonkersonline.info/stacks/nutritionStack.rev"

into the message box and the stack opens directly in Rev.
You might want to post a zip version for download. The present version just puts the text into the browser.

In your stack in RevOnline FunCalc whenever I close it it complains that

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 close stack "splashStack"

cannot be found. Otherwise another nice example of datagrid. I still have to take it apart and understand.
Thanks again
Bernd

Oh, DOH, forgot to put the splashstack up. As for downloading, till I put up the zips, I think you can do a right click and save as to get the file. I'll see what I can do to fix funCalc. I'll zip em up together and repost to revonline.

[ibe]

Thanks Sturgis, interesting datagrid sample. I'll have to have a good look at how it's done. Forms in datagrids really should have more documentation and samples.

At the moment I will stick with my table approach as it is simple to code, looks good and is what I need. Especially now as I've been experimenting with drag&drop which is nice with the new datagrid as it shows the line that is being dragged.

[bn]

Ibe,
I also try to get into datagrids, the documentation is here
http://revolution.screenstepslive.com/s ... s/datagrid
and there is a pdf at the right hand side that nicely introduces to the datagrid. Also look at the lessons etc. This is very instructive material, well done and easy to follow. Trevor Devore (the guy who did the datagrid) does a very good job documenting and supporting the datagrid.
regards
Bernd

[lharris]

Hi Ibe. I have been trying to implement an ical-like calendar using both your method and a datagrid but I am not entirely happy with the results. Any chance you could post your calendar stack so I could learn from it ?
Thanks
/leonard

[ibe]

Hi Leonard, no problem. My sample is just a proof of concept that I made to see if I could have a resizable calendar that looks like iCal. Each date is a grouped control that is duplicated. If you're doing a basic calendar system you probably want to put a list field or something similar inside each date.

Resizing is done in the mac style stack resizer that also handles the toolbar and status bar resizing. The buttons in the toolbar are just a picture, it's not functional but can be quite easily implemented.

The stack can be downloaded from my website http://www.bergroth.fi/tmp/Calendar%20sample.rev

Hope this helps you,

Ismo

[lharris]

Thanks Ibe. Very much appreciated.

[rainforestinn]

Hi

I'm looking for an example calendar file. The one you have at http://www.bergroth.fi/tmp/Calendar%20sample.rev is corrupted and won't open with RunRev 4.0 on Mac OS

[bn]

Hi rainforestinn,
put this into the message box in RunRev and hit return:

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go stack url "http://www.bergroth.fi/tmp/Calendar%20sample.rev"

This will get you the stack right into Rev.

regards
Bernd

[rainforestinn]

Please ignore my last post. The stack is not corrupted. It is because I am using Snow Leopard and RunRev won't let you double click to open a stack (or drag and drop to open a stack). Using Snow Leopard you can only open a stack using the "File Open" menu.

[rainforestinn]

I like your calendar. It is a very good jumping off place for making a calendar that interacts with a database and, like you said, has fields for showing, editing or inputing check off lists or whatever for each date. It would also be nice if you could drag and drop items from one date to another.

[ibe]

Thanks. I'll be revisiting the calendar in January and will be making it fully functional. If there is interest I can upload it for those interested in using it for their own projects. I'm not sure if I'll do drag&drop as I don't see my project needing that functionality, but let's see. Anyone have suggestions on how to visually show drag&drop ie. like the datagrid that shows a faded line being dragged. I think it would need visual feedback so that the end user truly sees that he/she is dragging something.

Ismo

[rainforestinn]

Yes. I'm definitely interested. There are several good calendar widgets out there but no full size calendar that can be used for entering data.

[lharris]

Hi Ibe
Have you done any more development on your calendar app?

/leonard