Hi David, Have you looked at the Flexible grid spreadsheet-style grid control from http://www.runrevplanet.com/ It might be better suited to your needs than a full-blown data grid control. You can try it for free with the developer's kit. Best, Keith..
On 5 May 2011, at 03:51, David Glass wrote: > Not sure how many people are both here and on the forum, so if this is a dup > for you, I apologize. > > Looking for a little brainstorming, and maybe best practices for an interface > for a long-term planner/calendar. > > This is basically a Yearly Calendar view rather than a Monthly or Weekly > view. Years would be along the top as a main heading, with the months broken > out below them. Then, spread out along the time line (as colored bars ??) > would be whatever projects are scheduled over those months. > > Like so: > > 2011 2012 2013 ........ > JFMAMJJASONDJFMAMJJASONDJFMAMJJASOND........ > xxxxxxxxxx > yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy > zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz > www..... > > > (hopefully that comes through OK) > > I could do a really simple version using a bunch of graphics drawn directly > on a card, but the time frame is arbitrary and could run 10s of years into > the future (and maybe it doesn't have an end; similar to how Excel will let > you scroll and scroll and scroll while continuously incrementing the column > labels)), and maybe at least 10 into the past, and I'm not sure how I'd > handle scrolling back and forward if everything was directly on a card. > > I've thought maybe a DataGrid, but haven't come up with any indication on > what the maximum number of columns is (assuming there'd be a column for each > month), and also not sure I could get the 'double header' (year and months) > to work. I'm also not sure the Form portion of the DG would work because the > row will be arbitrarily wide, and I don't think I can set up the row template > to handle that. > > So, not sure what else is possible in LC (just starting out), so any and all > input is welcome. > > -- > David Glass - Gray Matter Computing > graymattercomputing.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
