Long-term Planning UI Ideas

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. Ye

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David, You could use multiple fields, stacked on top of each other and grouped together as a "year"; make ten copies of the group and set them end to end, then group all ten and resize the group horizontally down to the width you want. Turn on the hoizontal scrollbar of the outermost group and

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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:

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Thanks! I'll take a look at it. On 05/05/2011 7:41 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: 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 t

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Yeah, that's probably the best way to handle the headings, although I don't have to go down to the individual day, thankfully. On 05/05/2011 5:53 AM, Ken Ray wrote: David, You could use multiple fields, stacked on top of each other and grouped together as a "year"; make ten copies of the grou

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The actual data that a Datagrid displays is memory based, and so would have the same constraints as an Excel spreadsheet. One may argue that there is a LOT of memory to work with these days and so it is not really an issue, but if you are thinking in terms of unlimited data forwards and backward

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I'm not overly concerned with the actual data at this point, but rather the display, and I'm not able to envision how a datagrid would be able to display the data the way I have in mind. Most likely because I don't know enough about LC. On 05/05/2011 9:06 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: The actual d

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David, I always like the occasional programming challenge to keep me fresh. So here's a little demo stack for you. See how it fits your needs. http://db.tt/RFGMQp7 I only just made it after reading your email an hour or so ago, so it may be riddled with bugs... but at least there's only one scri

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That is *very* cool. Almost exactly what I was envisioning, and definitely a great help! Thanks so much. :) On 05/05/2011 10:38 AM, Nonsanity wrote: David, I always like the occasional programming challenge to keep me fresh. So here's a little demo stack for you. See how it fits your needs.

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I don't think the datagrid would be very good at calendar data. You would really need a good calendar object, and that is a lot of work for one person to create on his own. It would be awesome if we had a calendar object like the datagrid object, which was aware of all the various calendar issue

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A very good calendar stack is available from Sarah Riechelt: I've customized/used this in a couple of projects -- it's quite useful. Hmm... While thinking about it, I can't recall if I ever sent a donation for the stack. Maybe I did al

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Glad you like it. :) A feature begged me to add it, so if you fetch the stack again (should be the same URL) I've added drift to the scrolling calculations so you can swipe through time, a la iOS. Also added a return-to-beginning button. If you are using it as a starting block and want it simple,

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Nice. I just sent her some money. Bob On May 5, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > A very good calendar stack is available from Sarah Riechelt: > > > I've customized/used this in a couple of projects -- it's quite useful. > Hmm

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Very nice Chris. David, if you decide to go 'scrollable' and want to get more graphical with your timeline, your might get some inspiration from Timeline 3D from Beedocs. Their product timeline was built using their timeline product - how's that for "eating your own dog-food!" Best, Keith.. On

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LOL...that's very cool, and completely beyond me for...a while. On 05/05/2011 11:42 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: Very nice Chris. David, if you decide to go 'scrollable' and want to get more graphical with your timeline, your might get some inspiration from Timeline 3D from Beedocs. Their product

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...yes, beyond me too - I just use it! However, having seen what some of the folks around here do with LiveCode, this kind of timeline presentation is certainly not beyond the capabilities of the platform - in the right hands! ;-) Best, Keith.. On 6 May 2011, at 08:06, David Glass wrote: > LO

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Thanks Scott, much appreciated. And Bob too. My stack is just a single month at a time display so can't really help with David's problem, but for anyone who just needs a simple data input mechanism, it works really well. But I'm sure Scott's customized version looks better than mine :-) Cheers,