Monthly Calendar View

[KirAsh4]

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 …

[billp100]

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!

[KirAsh4]

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.

[KirAsh4]

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.

[trividar]

@KirAsh4 …that looks amazing! exactly what i looking for…

[paviro]

I think I prefer the first styling 😅 but maybe that’s just me :)

[flooo]

@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.
Sometimes a little less is a little more ;-)

[KirAsh4]

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.

[KirAsh4]

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. :)

[flooo]

I really like that touch of green in there…
Well done!

[KirAsh4]

That’s the custom CSS being implemented. By default it doesn’t have any color nor border. The user can edit their CSS and personalize it that way. Essentially the code reads:

	// Module defaults
	defaults: {
		...
		displayMonthyear: true,
		cssStyle: "default" /* Current options are 'default', 'block', 'custom' */
	},

	// Required styles
	getStyles: function() {
		switch(this.config.cssStyle) {
			case "block":
				return ["styleDefault.css", "styleBlock.css"];
				break;
			case "custom":
				return ["styleDefault.css", "styleCustom.css"];
				break;
			default:
				return ["styleDefault.css"];
		}
	},

[KirAsh4]

So as it turns out, it’s extremely easy to let the calendar Do Its Own Thing as far as figuring out what day to start the week on, Sunday or Monday. It litereally done by the system’s LOCALE, which you control by setting a language option in the main 'config.js'. Below is a screen shot of the English ('en') versus Spanish ('es') setting:

Notice how the Spanish one starts on Monday (lunes) whereas the English one starts on Sunday. I am not manually calculating this to draw the calendar. Moment.js takes care of this automatically.

Here’s the drawback: if your LOCALE defines the start of the week as Sunday, but you want to VISUALLY set the calendar to Monday (or vice verse), that would require me to actually manually calculate the entire calendar and draw it out. It’s a pain in the rear to be honest.

[MichMich]

A bit late to the party thanks to a delightful holiday, but I must say: nice work on the calendar.
One small suggestion: change the green color to an inverted black and white digit. I prefer the MM to be fully B&W.

[KirAsh4]

@MichMich, it is, by default, B/W. Users can set a custom CSS to change the colors, like I did as a test.

[MichMich]

@KirAsh4 Nice work!

[KirAsh4]

I can spend days coming up with style ideas, but I think I’m done fiddling with this. It’s time to move on to the next step in the process. I’m cleaning up the branches on GitHub and getting ready to open the flood gates. In the mean time, here’s the 4 styles that I’m including. Note that the ‘slate’ style is really meant for people who have a mirror-less display as the colors probably won’t show very well through a 2-way mirror.

• The calendar is language aware, meaning it will translate to your language setting.
• The calendar will automatically start on either Monday or Sunday depending on your language setting.
• The header (month and year) can be suppressed (not shown) if desired.
• Customization can be done through the custom CSS file
• Current day is highlighted through CSS styling.
• Probably more stuff I forget at the moment … I’ll have it all written out in the README file, including the full styling tree.

[MichMich]

Could you try a version where the active day is black text on a white background? So a little white square with a black number in it? Preferably with rounded corners. (Radius 1 or 2).

[KirAsh4]

Oh I suppose …

Keep in mind that the styling can be changed by the user to whatever they want it to look like. The sky isn’t the limit … it’s their imagination. :)

[MichMich]

@KirAsh4 I understand. But I think this is the best default style … 😈

[KirAsh4]

It won’t be the “default” style, but the config will set it as 'default'. The reason is because the actual 'styleDefault.css' file needs to be clean and not have anything in it other than setting the proper margin, padding, and table/cell views for the calendar and it gets included always. Custom CSS files are pulled in on top of that. That way, the user doesn’t need to set any of that themselves, but rather just over ride what they want with their own styles. So I can have a 'styleMichMich' [*] that I can set as the default style to have today highlighted in a white box.

[*] actual name to be determined still …

Never mind, went a slightly different route …