[EventCalendar] Date Input Inteface re: Event Calendar 3.1 Beta

[Darrell Schulte]

On Sep 15, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Alex Tingle wrote:

>> Also, how difficult would it be to make date inputs from a graphic
>> calendar in addition to using numeric dates?
>
> Yeah, that would be great. If somebody writes it, then it'll go in.
>
> What's really not acceptable is the way the interface pokes right  
> out of
> the main column ontp of  whatever is in the right-sidebar. That  
> *really*
> needs to be fixed.

Yesterday I set myself up with Tracks (http://www.rousette.org.uk/ 
projects/) and noted that their date input pops a graphical calendar  
that returns the results to the field. It was pretty cool. Anyway,  
after some poking around I found that Tracks was using jscalendar 1.0.

http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/

License type:
This program is available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General  
Public License version 2.1 or above.

So I fiddled around for a few minutes and came up with appears to be  
a working calendar that returns the selected date. Formats can be  
modified and the css for the calendar can be messed with...


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This would likely shorten the width of the interface. One main point  
to keep in mind with regard to the current version of the editor is  
that it doesn't break when JavaScript is not enabled. If jscalendar  
is adopted, we might want to keep the old way around as a fall back  
position if JS is not on...never detected it before, but can a script  
determine if it's enabled or not?

Further musings, Alex?


Darrell


Darrell Schulte
http://schulte.mn