Calendar plugin

[povarotti]

i think, as a first step, the calendar should display pending/scheduled recordings, or at a minimum have a visual key that one or more is scheduled for that day

[Fatman_do]

i think, as a first step, the calendar should display pending/scheduled recordings, or at a minimum have a visual key that one or more is scheduled for that day

Some people have recordings on practically every day, with more than one recording. :o

That would obscure and possibly overshadow everything else wouldn't it?

[McBainUK]

Thanks for all the posts, esp yours fbachofner / Felix, lots of good points to think about.
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I've been reading around about iCal and it seems it's taking over the world (lol). Looking at the website ricklous linked there are lots of calendars that you can download/subscribe to which would make sense in a PVR envirmont (I esp liked the football fixtures calendar).

supporting iCal which has already standardised calendaring....Why not consider making you plugin display only?.....Leave the data entry to dedicated calendaring apps

This is the way I'm going to go.

So the first step is investigation the iCal format. Is there a 'written standard' (like HTML). Also looking for a .net iCal parser. Any tips/links on the above would be very useful.

Edit: So far I've found the (extremly scary!) full specification for the iCalendar file format. And some Apple mac writings about it here and here.

[McBainUK]

Making good progress. Got a workable calender viewer (month gird) and basic iCal parser. Next job is to add event/day view functionality...

[jam_zhou]

Very nice...just having a calender at hand is really nice.

Would it be possible to mark holidays - e.g. new years, christmas - in a different colour.

And now from left field...any way to make it switch back and forth to the chinese calendar? My wife and I are always trying to figure out when our parents birthdays are. FYI, the chinese calander is a lunar calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar.

[Spartan]

i think, as a first step, the calendar should display pending/scheduled recordings, or at a minimum have a visual key that one or more is scheduled for that day

Because space is limited, I recommend using the 4 color-coded buttons on a Hauppauge remote to change calendar "modes" -- one for recordings, one for events, maybe the other 2 could be programmable

[Fatman_do]

Count me in as a beta tester.....

[McBainUK]

Would it be possible to mark holidays - e.g. new years, christmas - in a different colour.

If there is a 'Holidays' calender on icalshare.com or another source of iCal files then the plugin should be able to display it.

And now from left field...any way to make it switch back and forth to the chinese calendar? My wife and I are always trying to figure out when our parents birthdays are. FYI, the chinese calander is a lunar calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar.

To be honest I will probably won't do anything other then gregorian calenders, as it will be alot of work to support others.

[MacsRock]

This is looking really good! Count me in as a beta tester as well. Thanks for all your hard work.

[McBainUK]

I wouldnt say hard