calendar widget

Poster: Jaco
Dated: Monday August 14 2006 - 2:23:43 BST

Hello, does anyone know if the calendar script is ready to use, does it cost anything and is there a write-up on how to use it?

Thanks,

Jacques

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Monday August 14 2006 - 3:39:43 BST

Hi,

No, it is still in development. Depending on what you want, I have a menu that is a calendar. It's not a 'function' type where you can change years and such, but if all you're looking for is a calendar in which you can put items that you click to open pages or forms or such, I can find that and upload it for you to see.

Ruth

calendar widget

Poster: Jaco
Dated: Monday August 14 2006 - 5:29:13 BST

Yes, that would be very nice, thank you. I am hoping that you can go forward and back on the month and that each date is clickable capable of opening a sub-menu with all the usual properties.

What I want to do is list the tide times in my local area so that I can go surfing at the right time.

Jacques

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Monday August 14 2006 - 12:04:19 BST

Hi,

Here you go. Remember, this is not a calendar widget. It's just a data file set up so that the 1st level subs open and look like a calendar for that month.

Right now those submenu items, the dates, are set up as urls, all going to Milonic. But you could go into each submenu and change each date item to open another sub. You would of course have to create the other sub.

There are two menus on the page and a download file for the page. These menus are text only. I am playing with some image ones, but they are not ready yet. If you want images, I'll post back here when I get some done.

http://support.milonic.com/demos/calendar1/index.htm

Ruth

Poster: Jaco
Dated: Tuesday August 15 2006 - 21:12:50 BST

Hi Ruth, I am quite happy with your calendar menu, see:
http://fluidedesign.com/calendar.htm

if you click Aug 1, you will see what I want to do, a calendar is a perfect application for this type of thing.

I fooled around with it a bit and made certain months disappear and when I wanted them back they wouldn't come back, pesky things. also it does not react to the top property.

Jacques

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Tuesday August 15 2006 - 21:47:47 BST

Hi Jaques,

I'd be glad to play with it, but you would have to give me all the info on what you want and how you got some things to disappear. I can't write functions but I usually can figure out what's wrong or what needs to be added. Or I can usually figure out a workaround.

For example, I could propably set up a Milonic menu that looked like a form drop down from which to pick months and from there you could click a button which would open the corresponding menu from which to pick the date so that you don't have that wide menu bar with all the months in it.

Or it is possible to set up the months' calendars so when you did a mouseover of a date it opened an iframe into which the correct info was loaded, but that means creating pages with that info on it for every date and coding the aI string to have iframeX or Y or Z and so on open.

It would seem better if you had a function that would load the correct info from a database, that way you could have all the info in a database and clicking a date would 'fill' the submenu for that date with the correct info.

Now, I am not capable of doing something like that.

You might contact Milonic about building that for you. They have a fee schedule for something like. Well for building the menu system for a client which includes the professional license. Or if you know how to use database menus you could use what I sent and set it up as a database menu, I think probably that takes functions.

Ruth

EDIT: I just had another thought. You could create a page with all the tide info in whatever layout you wanted and make each separate area an anchor, then in the day menu item you could just code that to open that page at the correct anchor point.

Poster: Jaco
Dated: Wednesday August 16 2006 - 4:07:24 BST

Thanks Ruth, food for thought.

Jacques

Poster: Jaco
Dated: Wednesday August 16 2006 - 22:00:11 BST

Hi Ruth, I'm quite happy with the way it's working now.

http://www.fluidedesign.com/calendar.htm

Jacques