Looking for a Chumby Calendar Widget

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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5 Responses to “Looking for a Chumby Calendar Widget”

1. Frank Says:
   September 29th, 2008 at 4:23 am

   Have you seen this one?

   http://www.chumby.com/guide/widget/Simple+Calendar

2. Michael Gray Says:
   September 29th, 2008 at 7:20 am

   @Frank: heh nice one, thanks mate.

3. Duane Maxwell Says:
   September 29th, 2008 at 11:46 am

   @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.

4. Michael Gray Says:
   September 29th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

   @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

5. Paranormal Seoberatung Says:
   October 2nd, 2008 at 6:21 pm

   I like that like that simple calender from chumby - thanks for that one Frank!