Hi,

We're considering using JPlanner for our product. So far it looks good, but I just need a bit more control over a few things to make it ideal.

We're looking at something visual to help schedule vehicles and equipment for service or repairs. The "List" view is closest to what I want.

I have attached a screen shot of what I can do so far. It is good, but I need a bit more.

Can I ask for clues on how to ...
1. Make "today" obvious. Perhaps have a unique color.

2. Make weekends (Saturday & Sunday) obvious.

3. I would like to be able to have more control over each Appointment UI. Currently I can have multiple text lines - but I can't properly format the UI. Perhaps use our own JComponent? Then I can have more control over highlighting. In a perfect world I would like to ...
3.1 control the text formatting - eg bold, text size etc (HTML formatting would be ideal like a JLabel can)
3.2 color of the panel - so certain appointments can easily be identified as late, or urgent, or ready or whatever.

4. A custom UI for each day header. I still want the text "Wed 19 Aug" as is - but I also need to display much more information about each day. I need to indicate the day "status". The user would like to know if they have booked in too much that day, or all sorts of other information related to the day. Again, it would be ideal if I could use my own JComponent to get maximum control.

5. I notice that if there is an automatic horizontal scroll bar, but there is not an automatic vertical scroll bar. Is it possible to specify a vertical scroll bar if necessary?

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,
-Damian

You can change the font and color of specific appointment by setting its Style:

Style itemStyle = new Style();
itemStyle.setHeaderFont(new Font("Arial", 15, FontStyles.Italic));
itemStyle.setBrush(new SolidBrush(Colors.Red));
app.setStyle(itemStyle); 

You can change the defaults for all appointments by setting calendar.ItemSettings.Style.

The control has some support for html-like text formatting only for items' DescriptionText shown in timetable view. We'll try to implement it for HeaderText shown in list view for next release.

For #5 call ListViewSettings.setEnableVirtualItemSpace(true).

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Hi Damian,

Calling Calendar.update() after first resize seems to fix the vertical scrollbar:

calendar.addComponentListener(new ComponentAdapter() {
   @Override
   public void componentResized(ComponentEvent e) {
    super.componentResized ( e );
    calendar.update();
   }
  }); 

You can change the background of the whole view by calling

ListViewSettings.getStyle().setBrush(Brushes.Orange); 

or cells and headers background:

settings.getCellSettings().getStyle().setBrush(Brushes.Red);
settings.getCellSettings().getStyle().setHeaderBrush(Brushes.DarkSlateBlue); 

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Hi Damian,

You don't have to replace the jar, but instead call the Calendar.setLicenseKey method with the Keycode you received from SWREG as argument.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan