One of the things that’s really missing from my chumby is a simple calendar widget. I’m just looking for simple month view and the ability to flip back and forth through months.The widget exists in German but not in english. I even tried pulling up the Google Calender widget and attaching it to blank calendar, to find out it only lists agenda view.
I suspect part of the problem is because so few people understand yearly/monthly calendrics. If I were writing a monthly calendar program I would use the perpetual calendar formula. It’s really not as complicated as it looks, basically some simple math applied to a matrix and baada-boom badda-bing.
If you’ve got a son or daughter who’s into programming and you think could handle it, I could probably find some budget for it. I’ve also got some ideas for comercial widgets that do have a budget down the road if things work out …
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Have you seen this one?
http://www.chumby.com/guide/widget/Simple+Calendar
@Frank: heh nice one, thanks mate.
@Frank: Well, to be fair to Michael, I made that widget specifically in response to this article. He was right that this was a strange hole in the widget lineup, but what’s cool about the chumby is that anyone can see a need and fill it quickly – I already had the code in the “LCARS Clock” widget (which has a small calendar display) and simply enhanced and repackaged it in this new widget.
While the “perpetual calendar” algorithm is interesting, it’s not necessary in Flash’s Actionscript – since it’s derived from ECMAScript, it has a rich Date class, you can let Flash do all the heavy lifting. For instance, calculating the day-of-the-week for a given date is trivial.
I’ll probably post the source code for this widget so anyone that wants to include such a calendar in their own widgets will have something from which to start.
@Duane Maxwell: thanks a lot I saw it was new this am.
Thought it looked like LCARS when I saw it but dismissed it as personal bias
thanks again
I like that like that simple calender from chumby – thanks for that one Frank!
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