New MonthCalendar Control for the Jabaco framework

OlimilO

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Location: Germany

Occupation: software engineer

Thursday, June 4th 2009, 5:31pm

Hi there,

by experimenting with Usercontrols in Jabaco I have created a small Control what you call in VB a MonthCalendar.
It simply shows a sort of a Calendar that has a line for every week and the week day names in columns, where the user can select a special date. It's underlying working class is the GregorianCalendar from the namespace java#util.

if you drag an object of it onto a form you could use it on a form like this:

Jabaco Source

Public Sub MonthCalendar1_Selected() 
   MonthCalendar1.Visible = False 
   Command1.Caption = MonthCalendar1.Calendar.getTime.toLocaleString 
End Sub 
Public Sub Command1_Click() 
   MonthCalendar1.Visible = True 
End Sub

this is the first version so it is already working but it is in beta status.

i also left some room for extensions some ideas:
* let the user/programmer select the first week day (sunday or monday)
* adding an additional column on the left that shows the number of the week
* adding functionality that let the user perform addition/subtraction of timespans to the selected date
* coloring sunday, public holiday or all other special dates, e.g. birthdays
* let the user/programmer define his own user colors

greetings

OlimilO

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