Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: gnome-panel calendar integration was Re: [Evolution-hackers] summary, gdeskcal ideas

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:26, William Jon McCann wrote:
> Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 21:01, William Jon McCann wrote:
> >>Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> >>>On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:46, William Jon McCann wrote:
> <snip>
> >>>for editing, you'll have to activate the
> >>>OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_CompEditorFactory component and use the
> >>>editNew and editExisting methods on it.
> >>>
> >>>You can see an example of it at create_component(), in
> >>>calendar/gui/calendar-component.c.
> >>
> >>Boy, that was pretty easy once I knew the APIs to use.  Thanks for your 
> >>help.  It now does just about everything that I want it to... except for 
> >>one thing, how can I change the date in the editor after calling 
> >>editNew? 
> > you can't.
> 
> So is there any way for me to start an event editor with an arbitrary 
> date set?
> 
> If not could one be added?  Forgive me if I have no idea what I'm 
> talking about... but perhaps, something like editNew but that also takes 
> start and end datetimes?
> 
> void editNewFor (in string uri, in CompEditorMode mode,
>                   in CalComponentDateTime dtstart,
>                   in CalComponentDateTime dtend)
>                raises (InvalidURI, BackendContactError, UnsupportedType);
> 

This is a reasonable idea.  It should probably take a whole icalendar
object string so you can arbtrarily set any of the fields.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
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