Hi,

I'm still in my first few days with JPlanner - and although I am struggling a bit - I am very much enjoying the power and the (relative) simplicity. It's an impressive product that I am glad I found.

Now I'm playing around with Resources View, and I have a few questions that I am struggling to answer myself. I had some of these things working in "List View", but Resource view is a bit different. Also, I'm not sure if I have all the names of the components correct, so I have attached a screenshot to explain.

Referring to the attached screen shot ...

1. How do I adjust the width of the "Row header"?

2. These rows will never be shrunk. Can I remove the "shrink" symbol?

3. How do I adjust the font and background color of the "Row header"?

4. These Items will never be edited directly - so how can I stop the "text editor" from starting when I select an Item?

5. I would like the height of the Item to be a bit smaller that the height of the row. How can I introduce "padding" or whatever to give some space above and below?

6. I would like to adjust the color of the top bar across each item. I want to use this to signify some emergency states. How can I set this color?

7. I want "today" to be clearly visible. In "List view" I can use "DateStyle todayStyle = new DateStyle();" and "calendar.getDayStyles().add(todayStyle);", but that does not seem to work here. Any suggestions?

8. Formatting date headers. I want to "center", and possibly change font. Any thoughts?

9. (not on screenshot) Later I expect that I will want to adjust the start/end times of Appointments. However - I don't want it to ever change Resource/Row. How can I allow date modification but disallow Resource/Row changes?

Any clues would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,
-Damian

In fact the Top and Bottom padding properties should work in Resource view. Use the following code to specify them:

calendar.getItemSettings().setPaddingTop(...);
calendar.getItemSettings().setPaddingBottom(...); 

Hi,

8. You need to rely on custom drawing again. To draw the cells in the timeline header, specify the CustomDrawElements.ResourceViewTimelineCell value in addition to CustomDrawElements.ResourceViewCell as an argument to setCustomDraw:

calendar.setCustomDraw(CustomDrawElements.ResourceViewCell | CustomDrawElements.ResourceViewTimelineCell); 

The draw method will be called for each cell in the view as well as the timeline header. You need to ensure that you are drawing the right cell by checking getDate and getIndex.

@Override
public void draw(DrawEvent e) {
	if (e.getElement() == CustomDrawElements.ResourceViewCell)
	{
		if (DateTime.op_Equality(e.getDate(), DateTime.today()))
			e.getGraphics().fillRectangle(Brushes.Yellow, e.getBounds());
	}
	else if (e.getElement() == CustomDrawElements.ResourceViewTimelineCell)
	{
		if (DateTime.op_Equality(e.getDate(), DateTime.today()) && e.getIndex() == 2)
		{
			e.getGraphics().fillRectangle(Brushes.Yellow, e.getBounds());

			// You need to draw the text inside the cell again
			// because the default text will be obscured by the fill above
			Brush brush = new SolidBrush(e.getStyle().getHeaderTextColor());
			TextFormat format = new TextFormat();
			format.setHorizontalAlign(Align.Center);
			format.setVerticalAlign(Align.Center);
			e.getGraphics().drawString(e.getText(), e.getStyle().getHeaderFont(), brush, new RectangleD(e.getBounds()), format);
		}
	}
} 

9. The following code will prevent the user from dragging appointments to different resources.

calendar.setItemChangeResourceKey(Keys.Home); 

Generally, the setItemChangeResourceKey method is used to specify a modifier key (Control, Alt, or Shift). When the key specified by this method is hold down while the user initiates a dragging operation, the dragged appointment is allowed to be moved to different resources. When this method is called with Keys.None, the appointments can be moved to different resources without holding down any modifier keys. This is why I suggested to call this method with any non-modifier key.

To prevent the user from modifying specific appointments altogether, either set the AllowMove, AllowChangeStart, and AllowChangeEnd properties of these appointments to false or override the itemModifying method in the CalendarListener and call setConfirm with false.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Meppy

Hi Meppy & everyone,

I am pretty much done with my first 2 components using JPlanner. Thanks for all your help getting me this far. Just one more little question for now.

I can set the color of the bar across the top of each Appointment using "this.getStyle().setFillColor(MY_COLOR);" This is how I set the GREEN ("all OK") and ORANGE ("issue") status for each Appointment.

However - this does not work when the Appointment is selected. Instead it defaults to a dark gray (as shown in the screenshot). Is there a reasonable way I can set this color when the appointment is selected?

Again, many thanks,
-Damian