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What’s more than just a Flex Calendar?

Andrew Spaulding — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:16:38 +0000

The Flex Scheduling Framework of course! A Flex calendaring component is still one of the highest search terms that pops up for Flex Daddy on Google (flex + calendar). The Adobe Consulting team released this open source framework on Adobe Labs a few months back, but given how highly sought after this kind of thing is I thought it was worth another mention.

Check it out at http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Scheduling_Framework

Ely also has a great calendaring example over on his blog too!

Flex Calendar – the most popular search string

Andrew Spaulding — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:20:49 +0000

Over the past few months, “flex calendar” has been the most popular search string that results in hits on Flex Daddy. A while back, when I was working for Achilles Foundation, we played with the idea of creating a custom calendar in Flex 1.5. Read more here. We soon gave up on the idea due to time constraints and the complexity involved.

But now … we’re all eagerly awaiting the release of Adobe Consulting EMEA’s Open Source Flex 2 Calendar Component. It’s been getting a lot of buzz, you can see by the number of comments, but we’re all awaiting a release date, or some more screenshots, or a teaser/demo … ooh, just something!

Be sure to check it out. Head over to Alex McLeod’s blog and make some noise!

Flex Calendar – can it be that hard?

Andrew Spaulding — Wed, 04 May 2005 06:02:25 +0000

Well a requirement has come up where we would like to have some sort of flex calendar component. In its simplest form it would be nice to show on the date chooser which days currently have at least one task. Sounds simple enough doesn’t it?

Maybe not so simple. As discussed with Jesse Warden on flexcoders, this could be quite overwhelming, with no simple solution. The current implementation of the DateChooser component doesnt really offer much leeway in terms of extension. As Jesse put it – “the not made to be extended datechooser”

But here goes nothing. After taking a look at the code I noticed that the Date Chooser is drawn by mx.controls.CalendarLayout. Isn’t this a lovely class, all 2000 lines of it hehe. Ah well, I found the methods I need to modify (one of them being about 400 lines of code alone) so I might as well take a stab at it.

Over the coming weeks I’ll see what I can muster up, and try and keep an update of my progess here for all to see. Kind of a step by step ‘make your own calendar’.

Stay tuned…

UPDATE
Well that kinda didn’t go as planned. I’ve completely dropped customising the DateChooser as it was going to take up time I just couldnt spare. But in the meantime, be sure to check out Keven Hoyt’s post – Custom Calendaring With Flex.