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    Stretch view of a calendar

    Would anyone on the forum know if one can create a form with a monthly calendar view that can be stretched as one drags the window from right side to left side? I don't yet have the calendar addin, so I don't know if this is possible with the addin. This feature would be very helpful for my use. Here are samples enclosed that shows what I mean.
    "Ollie, remember how dumb I used to be? Well, I'm much better now."

    Pete
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    Re: Stretch view of a calendar

    You can roll the addin calendar up, but you can't size it. Maybe you should take your sample as a stacked week view? - then each day can be plenty wide.
    Peter
    AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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    https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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      #3
      Re: Stretch view of a calendar

      Peter:
      Thanks for the response. My interest is just having it stretch across the screen when necessary, just a cool thing. The program I am using to generate this used Access, but I have no desire to go back to Access. I have just been playing with using the stretch capabilities in the dimension property and can't get it to work the way I want it to (still learning). Since there aren't any samples of the addin, I wasn't sure how it worked. The sample view I attached is a monthly view that can be resized and each day is actually a button that opens up forms to input data. The data then displays on each day back on the monthly view.

      Pete
      "Ollie, remember how dumb I used to be? Well, I'm much better now."

      Pete

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        Re: Stretch view of a calendar

        Pete

        Attached is a sample of the calendar add in. As Peter said, you can't resize the calendar. I wish there was an option to maximize it. Thought I would attach a sample just so you could see it in action.

        Also, there is QUITE a lengthy example of a monthly calendar in Dr. Wayne's Xbasic for Everyone. I believe the book says the code is available on his site as well. It might be able to be modified by one of the gurus on the board to do what you want as it looks to be static in size as well.

        BTW, been meaning to ask you. Are you a coach, runner, both?

        Regards,

        Jeff

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          Re: Stretch view of a calendar

          Jeff:
          Thanks for the insight. I looked at the Dr. Wayne's Calendar sample and thought it was just for a web page. I will look more closely. Your sample looks more like a schedule lister. I am interested in recording and posting track workout schedules. Unfortunately, I haven't found a good program out there that will include ability to create sprint training and weight lifting schedules and generate good reports. Most just record mileage. As I said earlier, the stretch calendar is just kind of cool, not essential.

          Yes, retired college track coach and long ago sprinter.
          "Ollie, remember how dumb I used to be? Well, I'm much better now."

          Pete

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            Re: Stretch view of a calendar

            Pete

            Attached is another example showing the Add New Record option enabled on the Calendar Addin. It might get you close to what you what. You could click on the day bar in the monthly calendar and bring up the "List View". Once in the list view you could choose "Enter" to bring up a data entry form which you could then use to enter either the track work out or weight lifting work out. It would probably have to be a text field and abbreviated so you could display it on the monthly calendar but it might get you close to what you want. I can see the need for the larger spaces for the days given what you are doing.

            I have been pretty much a life long runner - but I am a distance man.

            Regards,

            Jeff

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              Re: Stretch view of a calendar

              Pete

              Here is an example I made for you.

              It lets you choose the athlete's schedule you want to view/edit and then it pulls up the calendar for just that athlete. Not sure if that would be your implementation but it seemed reasonable if you coach multiple people. Just run the button on the startup form. Click on the title bars of the days to be able to enter new records for that day.

              Regards,

              Jeff

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                Re: Stretch view of a calendar

                Pete:
                I didn't follow every bit of detail on this thread so my comment might be a bit off. But if all you want to do is "stretch" the calendar, you can do that with xbasic (change the size of the window). That is not as cool as if you drag the border and stretch it. But what might come very close to that, is to use the mouse co-ordinates. Check out that thread

                I said this repeatedly before: if I had one single wish for alpha, is to enable drag and drop in view mode. That feature is not available.

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                  Re: Stretch view of a calendar

                  Enclosed is as close as I can come to explaining how this would work. I used multi-state buttons. What the Access program is able to do is show read only fields from data input from another form underneath each day (in the bigger boxes where it says Day 1, Day 2). This is more of a "can this be done" rather than asking for help in doing it, as I am not ready to journey down that road yet. Since it can be done in Access (probably using visual basic), I was hoping...

                  Anyway thanks for your thoughts and effort to point me in the right direction. I really appreciate it.

                  Jeff, I am going to have to buy the addin on Monday and then try your sample.

                  Pete
                  "Ollie, remember how dumb I used to be? Well, I'm much better now."

                  Pete

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                    Re: Stretch view of a calendar

                    Pete

                    I'm pretty sure it can be done as far as the button approach. I do something very similar in the main app I am developing - although not with Multistate buttons. I actually populate the text on the buttons with summary values from the underlying child table. If you get the calendar addin, I will be interested in what you think about the calendar approach. It seems it might work for you. Also, I remember a post on here by Tim Kiebert(I think) that allows for the days of the week at the top of the screen(and is scrollable by week) and then detail for each day was at the bottom. It was pretty slick. Not really a calendar per se but very cool nonetheless. I'll try to find it and point the link to you.

                    Regards,

                    Jeff

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                      #11
                      Re: Stretch view of a calendar

                      Pete

                      Here is the other thread I was talking about. There are some samples in there that are pretty neat for viewing a week of data at a time by day with a browse for the detail. Might work for you as well.

                      http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...ad.php?t=64552

                      Regards,

                      Jeff

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