Re: calendar with Gtk+ 2.0

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 16:45 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> vicente garcia wrote:
> > Hi, I'm programming a GTK program with freepascal and MySQL. The 
> > application
> > must administer a Medical center and I need a calendar to show when the
> > patients must go to the doctor. I'm working with the widget GtkCalendar,
> > it's cool but I need something like this:
> > http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/434960008_65ab81bc16_o.jpg
> > 
> > I need something that show me the weeks and the hours of the day that is
> > occupated the medical center. I think I can't do this with GtkCalendar.
> > 
> > Can somebody help me, please?
> 
> You'll have to write your own widget [1]. That said, check out the 
> source code for Evolution and Dates [2], which both implement something 
> like this. You might be able to steal their code :)
> 
> (The Dates code is likely to be simpler and less full of CORBA than 
> Evolution.)

I'd really like extra API in GtkCalendar that allowed us to add events
information to the days. It seems like it would be a generically useful
thing:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339540

I haven't got around to doing it myself.

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