Comments on: Looking for a Chumby Calendar Widget

By: Paranormal Seoberatung

Paranormal Seoberatung — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:21:42 +0000

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

By: Michael Gray

Michael Gray — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:26:41 +0000

@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

By: Duane Maxwell

Duane Maxwell — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:46:16 +0000

@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.

By: Michael Gray

Michael Gray — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:20:29 +0000

@Frank: heh nice one, thanks mate.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:23:24 +0000

Have you seen this one?

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