List View Timelines in Scheduling for WinForms

Posted on June 30, 2022 by Diana

In this blog post we will build a simple scheduler with several timelines. We are using MindFusion Scheduling library for WinForms and Visual Studio with .NET6.0

I. Project Setup and General Settings

We create a new empty WinForms project in Visual Studio. We choose .NET6.0. Then we open the Form Editor. From the Visual Studio top menu bar we click “Project -> Manage NuGet Packages…”. In the Browse tab we search for “MindFusion.Scheduling”. You can install either the Scheduling package or the whole MindFusion.Pack.Winforms, if you plan to use more MindFusion controls.

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3 Ways to Add a Local JPlanner.jar to Your Project in Apache NetBeans

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Diana

In this blog post we will look at 3 different ways to add the JPlanner.jar library to your project in the NetBeans IDE. The projects are:

Java Application with Maven
Java Application wtih Gradle
Java Appliation with Ant

We assume you have downloaded the JPlanner.jar either with the trial version of Scheduling for Java Swing or with one of the samples.

I. Java Application with Maven

Right click on the “Dependencies” node in your project tree and choose “Add Dependency”:

Add Dependency in a Maven Project
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Custom Painting of Resources in Java Scheduler

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Diana

In this blog post we will explain how to color cells and resources in the Resource view of the calendar based on a certain criteria. In our case we take the “Resource Table” sample from the Samples for the Java Swing Scheduler and we will edit its code to color the header and background of cells that correspond to given resources, in our sample it is an employee:

Resource View: Custom Painting of Background

We will also add tooltips that show when the mouse is over cells that correspond to this employee:

Resource View: Tooltips

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Custom appearance of WPF Resource view

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Meppy Palas

Continuing from the previous post we will now customize the appearance of the Resource view to achieve a more aesthetically pleasing presentation. The appearance of the view is customized by setting various properties of the Calendar.ResourceViewSettings object.

We will build our presentation on the Silver theme by reducing the sharpness and contrast of colors and making the font uniform across the entire view. The customization process is divided to the following steps:

Customize the view background.

calendar.ResourceViewSettings.CalendarStyle.Background = Brushes.White;

Customize the row headers.

calendar.ResourceViewSettings.ExpandableRows = false;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.HeaderStyle.FontFamily = headerFont;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.HeaderStyle.FontSize = 13;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.HeaderStyle.Foreground = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, 64, 64, 64));
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.HeaderStyle.Background = Brushes.White;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.HeaderStyle.BorderBrush = borderBrush;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.HeaderStyle.BorderThickness = new Thickness(0, 0, 0, 1);

Customize the view cells.

calendar.ResourceViewSettings.CellStyle.Background = Brushes.White;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.CellStyle.BorderBrush = borderBrush;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.WeekendStyle.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, 250, 250, 250));
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.WeekendStyle.BorderBrush = borderBrush;

Customize the view timelines.

calendar.ResourceViewSettings.BottomTimelineSettings.CalendarStyle.Background = Brushes.White;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.BottomTimelineSettings.CalendarStyle.BorderBrush = borderBrush;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.BottomTimelineSettings.CalendarStyle.FontFamily = headerFont;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.BottomTimelineSettings.CalendarStyle.FontSize = 13;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.BottomTimelineSettings.CalendarStyle.FontWeight = FontWeights.Normal;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.BottomTimelineSettings.NowFillBrush = Brushes.Transparent;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.MiddleTimelineSettings.CalendarStyle.Background = Brushes.White;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.MiddleTimelineSettings.CalendarStyle.BorderBrush = borderBrush;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.MiddleTimelineSettings.CalendarStyle.FontFamily = headerFont;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.MiddleTimelineSettings.CalendarStyle.FontSize = 13;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.MiddleTimelineSettings.CalendarStyle.FontWeight = FontWeights.Normal;
calendar.ResourceViewSettings.MiddleTimelineSettings.NowFillBrush = Brushes.Transparent;

Note that the font, headerFont and borderBrush variables are defined as follows:

FontFamily font = new FontFamily("Segoe UI");
FontFamily headerFont = new FontFamily("Segoe UI Light");
Brush borderBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, 224, 224, 224));

The final result is displayed below.

The complete sample project is available for download here:
https://mindfusion.eu/_samples/WpfPlannerResourceViewAppearance.zip

You can get the trial version of MindFusion.Scheduling for WPF from this link:
https://mindfusion.eu/WpfPlannerTrial.zip

Enjoy!

Custom items in WPF Calendar

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Meppy Palas

Expanding on the previous post we will now modify the appearance of the calendar items through the use of a custom item presenter. To define the new presenter, simply create a new Style resource with TargetType set to ItemPresenter and place this Style somewhere in the resource look-up path – for example in the application’s or the window’s resource dictionaries. The Style must contain a setter for the Template property that defines the appearance of the item:

<style targettype="{x:Type planner:ItemPresenter}">
  <Setter Property="Template">
    <Setter.Value>
      <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type planner:ItemPresenter}">
        <Grid>
        ...
        </Grid>
      </ControlTemplate>
    </Setter.Value>
  </Setter>
</style>

In this particular case the presenter represents a grid with two rows. The top row contains an icon and the header text of the item. The bottom row contains the description text. Note, that the TextBlock displaying the header text of the item has a name – HeaderBlock. The element with this name defines the position of the TextBox when the item is in-place edited.

Various appearance properties are also customized – such as FontFamily, Background and BorderBrush, by assigning new values to the respective properties of the Calendar.ItemSettings.CalendarStyle object:

calendar.ItemSettings.CalendarStyle.FontFamily = new FontFamily("Segoe UI");
calendar.ItemSettings.CalendarStyle.Background = Brushes.White;
calendar.ItemSettings.CalendarStyle.BorderBrush = Brushes.SlateGray;

Finally, the size of the calendar lanes is increased to accommodate the new appearance of the items:

calendar.ResourceViewSettings.LaneSize = 54;

The final result is displayed below.

The complete sample project is available for download here:
https://mindfusion.eu/_samples/WpfPlannerCustomItems.zip