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Issue: 1.4 (February/March 2003)
Author: Seth Willits
with Thomas Reed
help-at-rbdeveloper.com
Article Description: No description available.
Article Length (in bytes): 5,465
Starting Page Number: 32
RBD Number: 1416
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1416.sit Updated: Friday, October 17, 2003 at 12:20 PM
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http://everydaysoftware.net/code/index.html
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Where can I find a good calendar class/window with code? I'm looking for a generic, show a window that contains a calendar and controls, and I want to be able to click on a date and have some code execute.
As a matter of fact, I have a calendar window very similar to this called FSCalendar which can be downloaded either from the REALbasic Developer website or from the Freak Software website.
Because FSCalendar uses standard canvases and other controls, the "look" of the window is almost completely customizable.
Fig. 1 FSCalendar
When drawing text in a canvas (for customized controls or the like) I often have a string of text that is too wide when drawn. I know applications like the Finder compress the text and make ellipsis dots (a series of three periods) appear in the middle or sometimes even at the end, but I don't know how to do this. Is there a REALbasic method that can do this?
There isn't a REALbasic method that can truncate a string, but there is a call on the Mac that makes it extremely simple. Using the TruncString declare, one can truncate a string that is up to 255 characters long by specifying the string to be truncated, the maximum width (in pixels) the string can be, and where to truncate the string (either in the middle or at the end of the string).
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