Paul Mrozowski's Blog - Updated VFP Calendar

Sunday, January 13, 2008

I was just reading some of the threads over on the UT and ran across one where someone was looking for a drop-down calendar control. Someone suggested they look at the one that I've got in the downloads section on my site. Unfortunately, the version I've had up forever doesn't actually have a "drop down" version of the control. I've had an updated version for a long time now, but I've never gotten around to posting it (until now). This thread kicked me in the butt a little to update this on the site.

Here's a screenshot of the updated control:

Hopefully you find it useful.

Links:

http://www.universalthread.com
http://www.rcs-solutions.com/Downloads.aspx

Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:17:45 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Comments [3] -

VFP

Monday, January 14, 2008 2:03:55 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

That's a nice calendar, however, when I tried it I discovered the following issues:

1) Clicking on the dropdown button activates the calendar. Clicking anywhere after that does not get rid of it as I would expect. I have to click the dropdown button again.

2) I can't use the arrow keys in the dates portion of the calendar. Don't forget about those keyboard only users.

Now for some suggestions:

1) Clicking on the MonthYear title at the top of the calendar shows a list of 6 months. How about replacing it with a dropdown list instead and show more months and have the ability to scroll it vertically.

2) Bold the dates that have "Tooltips" associated with them.

Anonamous

Monday, January 14, 2008 6:24:10 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

1. I'm not sure when that got broken, I thought I had that working at some point. If I get a chance I'll try looking at it again.

2. It does support keyboard shortcuts. D = current date, - = previous date, + = next date. The down arrow was taken to drop down the calendar.

Suggestions:

1. I like the look of the menus - I've seen calendars with the combo and I just don't like them as much.

2. Not a bad idea. I didn't really need the tool tips functionality, so that was never really fleshed out.

-Paul

Paul Mrozowski

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:43:15 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

I meant to say that I cannot use the arrow keys (up, down, left and right) to move the "cursor" over a specific day, i.e. I can click on any day, but how do you do this with the keyboard?

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