Re: Line up Calendar

I'd look for existing solutions before rolling my own, since calendars are hard to get "just so". How about starting with Tk::Month?

Update for posterity: Don't use Tk::Month. It has limited functionality and doesn't appear to have been maintained in some time. I gave the above advice based on an optimistic appraisal of the module after doing a quick search on CPAN and looking at the docs.

Update: It works fine. Just keep it simple:

#!/usr/bin/perl


use warnings;
use strict;

use Tk;
use Tk::Month;

my $mw = MainWindow->new();

my $month = "November";
my $year = "2006";
my $m = $mw->Month(
    -printformat   => '%a %e',
    -includeall    => 0,
    -month         => $month,
    -year          => $year,
    -command       => sub {
        my ($ym, $wd) = @_;
        my ($month, $year) = split( /\s+/ , $ym );
        my ($wday, $date)  = split( /\s+/ , $wd->[0] );
        print "$wday, $month $date $year\n";
    },
);
$m->pack;

MainLoop;
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Re^2: Line up Calendar by mikasue (Friar) on Nov 21, 2006 at 18:33 UTC
How do you use Tk::Month? This code just hangs... `use strict; use warnings; use Tk; use Tk::Month; my $MW = MainWindow->new(); $MW->geometry('300x200+50+50'); my $m = $MW->Month( -month => 'November', -year => '2006', -title => '%b %y', -command => \&press, -printformat => '%e', -navigation => [0\|1], -includeall => [0\|1], -showall => [0\|1], -first => [0\|1\|2\|3\|4\|5\|6], )->pack(); MainLoop;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Line up Calendar by webfiend (Vicar) on Nov 21, 2006 at 19:54 UTC
I don't get hanging, but I don't get a nice calendar either. It looks like Tk::Month is old, unmaintained, and broken. Too bad, because it looks like it might have been just the thing. Back to the drawing board. You want to show a calendar, but what purpose does it serve? Are you trying to do anything with the calendar, or just show the dates of the current month as a reference point? Update: I was throwing too much code at it. Tk::Month works fine if I keep it simple. See my original reply to this thread for details.	[reply]


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