Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Monthly Calendar View
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The better question is, what’s the preferred display, something small and in the corner, or having it take up the full width of the monitor? I’m of the school where I want small, concise and not taking up all the space. However, this isn’t about me, it’s about the user. :)
I think I will pull it out of the default calendar module and keep @MichMich’s default calendar implementation as-is, while I push this into a different module. I need to figure out what to call it, or how to make it work with the other one without breaking things. Having made the decision to pull it out of the default module also means I can easily integrate other features without causing too much bloat on the default one, such as a weekly view version.
And yes, having the week start on Monday vs. Sunday is easily implemented …
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I like the look of that module you made, but speaking for just myself, I was looking for a large scale calendar with multiple calendars populating the days. I know you had talked about adding a css to iframe, but that seems to have been made more difficult by google. Plus I want to just use it as a module along with other features of this project.
Again, I’m looking for more of a home based dashboard for the family, as opposed to a mirror, but I like the setup of this project.Thanks for your efforts!
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One thing at a time @billp100. Your request is still in my queue. I did this yesterday because it was on my mind and it’s easier for me to just write the code out while I’m thinking about it, than it is to just ponder ideas and stick to my ‘I shall not write code this long weekend.’ mantra. So yeah, it happened.
Basically, this is what I have in my queue:
- compact monthly view of a calendar (what I’ve done above and still being worked on)
- full screen width calendar with events populated (this has issues I’m trying to address)
- a running week of events (somewhat in progress already)
For the issues I’m referring to above, I look at my own calendar and days where I have so many things going on that it will not all display in the allowable space. On a regular computer, you can click to expand the day and see it all. You can’t do that on a default, touch-free MM install. Adding that ability now relies on the user also including a touch screen, or a mouse to navigate the calendar. To me it does no good if I have a calendar where I can not see all the events.
Now, this may not be an issue for you specifically, but I have to think of the over all population and every possible scenario and how to address them. So yeah, I’m still working on that and trying to figure out a (better) solution.
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And after a quick rewrite to use Moment.js instead of cumbersome Javascript calculations, I also did a bit of styling. I opted not to go the CSS route because the reality is, this is table-worth data, not CSS. It solves a lot of headaches to be honest. I did incorporate proper language translations. It just reads your locale and uses that.
- Still to-do is allowing for a Sun/Mon start of the week.
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@KirAsh4 …that looks amazing! exactly what i looking for…
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I think I prefer the first styling 😅 but maybe that’s just me :)
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@paviro said in Weekly Calendar:
I think I prefer the first styling 😅 but maybe that’s just me :)
It is not only you :) I also prefer the first style.
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CSS styling can be changed by anyone. At this point I’m just playing with it whenever I take a break from actually writing code. There are still bits of code that I don’t like. The trouble with being OCD.
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I reverted to much simpler times. One of the things that irked me is that I’m displaying a month/year on the calendar when it’s displayed right above it in the clock module. So, I made it optional. One can choose to turn off the header or leave it on. For those of you who don’t display the clock (or who put it elsewhere), it’s helpful to leave the header on, but if you have the clock enabled, there’s no sense in adding the month and year right below it again. This trims the header and keeps a clean interface.
And I left the ability for the end user to create a custom CSS file and modify the look (I turned the header back on for this preview):
In the above example, the custom CSS added a bullet point in between the month and year (which does not exist in the default CSS), made the year digits brighter, and colorized the current day. There are several nested elements that will allow the user to customize how they want their calendar to look. I’m looking at you guys who also have a colorized version of the weather module. :)
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I really like that touch of green in there…
Well done!
