Calendar widget

[bn]

Hi Mark,

I tried your sample stack and as you say it does not work with a "navigation bar" widget.

However it works with the SVG Icon widget, the Header Bar widget and the Segemented control widget.

For Segmented control widget use "on hilitechanged" instead of "on mouseUp", the rest being the same as above script.

The probable reason why it does not work with the "navigation bar" widget is that the widget itself uses a popUp mechanism for tooltips in an experimental "editmode" mode.

Maybe one of the other widgets will do?

Kind regards
Bernd

[marksmithhfx]

I have a question for you all, which comes partly as a suggestion from Elanor. She suggested, as a way around the popup problem on iOS, to hide/show a group. But I was wondering, can you "show" a group at a particular location (like mouseLoc for example)?

[Klaus]

Hi Mark,

sure, this is Livecode:

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...
set the loc of grp "currently hidden group" to the mouseloc
## Or wherever you like...
show grp  "currently hidden group" 
...

Best

Klaus

[marksmithhfx]

Hi Mark,

sure, this is Livecode:

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set the loc of grp "currently hidden group" to the mouseloc
## Or wherever you like...
show grp  "currently hidden group" 
...

Wonderful, thanks Klaus!! (I figured there was a way, just wasn't sure how)

Mark

[marksmithhfx]

Just as an aside, the determination of whether a year is a leap year is not solely judged by whether it is divisible by 4. (1900, for instance is not a leap year. Century years must be divisible by 400 to be a leap year.)
Revised function:

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function isaLeap pYear
   // returns true if it is a leap year
   if pYear mod 4 is not 0 then return false
   if pYear mod 100 is not 0 then return true
   if pYear mod 400 is 0 then return true
   return false
end isaLeap

Or this way... (for back in the day when (some) programming languages required you to write functions with a single return statement)

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function isLeap pYear
   // returns true if it is a leap year
   put false into tLeap
   if (pYear mod 4 = 0) and ((pYear mod 100 <> 0) or (pYear mod 400 = 0)) then put true into tLeap
   return tLeap
end isLeap

[marksmithhfx]

Hi Mark,

sure, this is Livecode:

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set the loc of grp "currently hidden group" to the mouseloc
## Or wherever you like...
show grp  "currently hidden group" 
...

Klaus, a follow up question. Can you display a group on card A that is located on card B? like... show group "MyGroup" of card "B". I tried this and it did not display the group on A, but I suspect it was showing it on the invisible card B. Confused yet? Ok, the idea is to have a popup calendar that is a group. I don't want to have multiple examples of the calendar, just one, stored on a card called "controls". So when I am where I want to display the calendar I would write something like "show group "Calendar" of card "Controls" and it would popup. I have tried it on the same card and that works. Just not when I put it on a different card.

Thanks
Mark

[Klaus]

Hi Mark,

show group "MyGroup" of card "B".

no, this is not directly possible, the group needs to be on the same card.
But you can do something like this:

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...
lock screen
place bg "Calender" onto this cd
## set its loc if neccessary
unlock screen
## Et voila, your group! :-)
...

Then you can later, if neccessary:

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...
remove grp "Calender" from this cd
...

Best

Klaus

[marksmithhfx]

Hi Mark,

show group "MyGroup" of card "B".

no, this is not directly possible, the group needs to be on the same card.
But you can do something like this:

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...
lock screen
place bg "Calender" onto this cd
## set its loc if neccessary
unlock screen
## Et voila, your group! :-)
...

Then you can later, if neccessary:

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...
remove grp "Calender" from this cd
...

Best

Klaus

Ok thanks. This is probably what I will end up doing since I need to have the same group appear on about 4 different cards.

Best,
Mark

[stam]

Or alternatively use a widget and pop it up at desired location. I do this with Hermann’s date picker widget, works well (his documentation in the widget itself has sample code how to do this...)

[marksmithhfx]

Or alternatively use a widget and pop it up at desired location. I do this with Hermann’s date picker widget, works well (his documentation in the widget itself has sample code how to do this...)

Thanks Stam. Are you doing this on iOS?

[marksmithhfx]

Hi Mark,

show group "MyGroup" of card "B".

no, this is not directly possible, the group needs to be on the same card.
But you can do something like this:

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...
lock screen
place bg "Calender" onto this cd
## set its loc if neccessary
unlock screen
## Et voila, your group! :-)
...

Klaus

Thanks Klaus, this was definitely the way to go. And by doing the following I could install it on a card when needed and not worry about it. Very simple.

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            if not exists(group "Calendar") then
               lock screen
               place bg "Calendar" onto this cd
               unlock screen
            end if

[marksmithhfx]

I ended up using the LC Calendar and popping it up (show/hide) in a group. Groups have their own visual effects so I was able to add the drop shadow effect, mimicking the way LC does it on the desktop. I also installed oversize left/right arrow buttons in the group to make it easier to use on mobile. I'm pretty satisfied with the result. I've attached an example stack in case anyone is looking for ideas.

Mark

[stam]

OFF TOPIC -- but how do you create the 'Attachments' box in the forum post?

[Klaus]

OFF TOPIC -- but how do you create the 'Attachments' box in the forum post?

Below the entry field for your posting you should see two TABS, with "Options" being the active one.
Click on, you guessed, "Attachments"...

[stecxjo]

Is there a way to get the calendar widget to respond to a mouseUp message? It did not respond to one when I put that handler into the widget's script. As a workaround experiment,I tried making the widget its own group and put the message there. Of course,I could create a button as a control that would do what I want.

What do I want? I don't know yet, but I know I want to control something.