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I am building an applicaiton for the iPhone that will display upcoming and past events. I settled for a list view, but then I realized that a calendar (just like the one displayed in the "month" view in the built-in Calendar application) would be a best match.
However, the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines just mentions the Date Picker, not the calendar, so I believe there is nothing like that out of the box. Is that true? If so, does anyone know of a third-party control that could be used? (I could write one myself, but I'd rather pick up something ready, since this is a departure on the original project plans).
Yes.
These are the option I am aware of:
EDIT: as of May 6, 2010
1) GCCalendar
2) http://github.com/klazuka/Kal
3) http://code.google.com/p/iphonecal (needs to be customized - easily - to change text from chinese to english)
4) Commercial: http://nrg.com.bd/blog/archives/36 but the look & feel of the previous ones is much, much better and they are free, if you can comply with their licenses.
Hope this helps.
The best site is indeed https://www.cocoacontrols.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Calendar, because you find screenshots of the separate calendars. Nevertheless, I made a list:
iOS
CLWeeklyCalendarView
Kal
TimesSquare
VURIG Calendar
OCCalendar
PMCalendar
CKCalendar
ABCalendarPicker
MBCalendarKit
DSLCalendarView
MSCollectionViewCalendarLayout
NVCalendar
VFCalendarView
JTCalendar
ios-calendar
TKCalendarMonthView
MELiPadCalendar
MACalendarUI
RDVCalendarView
RSDayFlow
DayFlow
PDTSimpleCalendar
SACalendar
MNCalendarView
CustomCalendar
CVCalendar
THCalendarDatePicker
MZDayPicker
CustomCalendar
DIDatepicker
FSCalendar
WeekViewDemo
FFCalendar
CGCalendarView
CalendarIOS7
GCCalendar
iphonecal
YFCalendar
Upcoming
DPCalendar
Xamarin.iOS
FMCalendar
TimesSquare Calendar
XCalendar
Xamarin.Forms.Calendar
escoz/monotouch-controls
Buy components
Telerik.Xamarin.iOS
Resco Mobileformstoolkit
Infragistics iOS Controls
I have this in a Excel-Sheet, where you can find much more information.
I would add this very good library.
Check out Kal: http://github.com/klazuka/Kal
Your goto place for any question like this these days is cocoacontrols.com. Searching for "calendar"
https://www.cocoacontrols.com/search?utf8=✓&q=calendar
gives us 15 responses at post date; this one seems particularly appealing at first glance.
DSLCalendarView for iOS
http://github.com/klazuka/Kal
is the best.
I've wrote my own (suitable for iPad / landscape view, scrollable, stylable, builds on Three20) – http://www.componentix.com/blog/22
On GitHub – https://github.com/vgrichina/ios-calendar
The library for the custom controller for calendar.
1) OCCalendar
2) PMCalendar
3) MAWeekView
4) ios-calendar
5) Kal
6) CKCalendar
Hope it will help you fine.Available on git also.
A slightly newer contender that works better in the iOS7 world is TimesSquare.
I used Tapku for a long time but haven't found it all that flexible, and the code is really hard to modify.
There are also other new version custom visual calendar for iOS 8+ written in Swift (2.0) CVCalendar. It provides easily customisable calendar control for iOS.
DDCalendarView which looks similar to iCal. It has both ObjectiveC and Swift version of code. Currently it shows only daily events. we need to develop the UI to support weekly and monthly events. Event classes used in this calendar are not inherited from EKEventKit classes.
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I am posting the question again with more clarity.
I am trying to develop a component similar to the UI for timeline component in "Timeli" app.Ia m not sure how to start or which iOS controls to use for this .The requirement is to show the years in a horizontal table view.Pinching on the tableview should expand that particular cell and at some particular point the cell should break into the different months in that year.If the user further try to expand a particular cell by pinching then that cell should break into the different days .Reverse should also work.It would be great if anyone can help me with some tips or suggestions to star developing this.
I don't know that particular app, but I can give some general advice: browse through the open source components at Cocoa Controls; find one that is similar to what you want to create; download the source code and study it.
Even if you can't find exactly what you want, you might learn some techniques that will help you figure out how to build the control you want to build.
If you want more specific help, you're going to have to make an attempt, and then ask a specific question where you explain what you're doing and what's not working. Generic "how do I build this?" questions don't usually work too well here, because nobody knows where you are starting from.
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I want to start developing HTML5/JS games. And I see these 2 frameworks LimeJS and CreateJS & EaselJS. Which one is better? Does anyone have experience with these 2 frameworks? And what about the documentation?
Yes, I experienced both unfortunately.
Limejs :
1 . You should have python installed to compile and run the code.
2 . You should manually use other javascripts inorder to preload
all the assets before the game gets start or else there will be
chance to slower the game animations.
3 . The compiled code is non human readable so that your code
cannot be understandable to third party users. The compilation
is done using python
4 . Issue with audio on different browsers in different
levels.
5 . No other resources other than Developers
API
CreateJS
1 . You can directly use javascript for html and run.
2 . CreateJS itself haves PreLoadJS,TweenJs,EaselJS,SoundJS so you
can render loaders and audio easily
3 . No compilation less security in case of javascript file
4 . You will be using soundjs for loading audio.
5 . Has their own API for each Tween,Easel,Sound and
Preload
Last and Finally compare to LimeJs, Many developers use Createjs for developing games including me.
The Breakouts project might help. It's sort of like TodoMVC in that they take a simple game of Breakout and implement it in different frameworks.
It covers Easel/CreateJS, LimeJS and 10 other popular frameworks.
I'm using EaselJS and personally I'm very happy with it, it's activly developed and also supported by Adobe and Microsoft.
As a possible alternative you could take a look at http://kineticjs.com
If you are interested in getting started with EaselJS you can take a look at my tutorial-series: http://indiegamr.com/retro-style-plattform-runner-game-for-mobile-with-easeljs-part-1/
(They are slightly out of date, as they where written for the previous verison of EaselJS, but still do work with the current version)
I've just started developing games with EaselJS, seems easy if you know JS at some level.
The lack of real world examples is a minus, but there are plenty of tutorials on basic usages of framework. And yeah, there is lots of good documentation on Easel on their website.
http://www.createjs.com/Docs/EaselJS/
Their SoundJS and TweenJS are also very impressive libraries, take a look at them ;)
CreateJS is right tool to get started quickly. We are using HTML5 to create games with Javascript and HTML and that's why no reason to get involved with Python in LimeJS.
The documentation for CreateJS got a huge update in February/2013, and there are a bunch of tutorials for EaselJS that can help get you started.
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I'm looking to develop a custom PDF viewer for an iPad, which has features like:
bookmarks
search
deep linking
zoom
jump to specific page
Does anyone know a code solution similar to this? I'm currently looking at Ghostscript but am having a problem finding other options.
For a simple and effective PDF viewer, you can now (iOS 4.0+) use the QuickLook framework:
QLPreviewController *previewController = [[QLPreviewController alloc] init];
previewController.dataSource = self;
previewController.delegate = self;
previewController.currentPreviewItemIndex = indexPath.row;
[self presentModalViewController:previewController animated:YES];
[previewController release];
You need to link against QuickLook.framework and #include <QuickLook/QuickLook.h>
For anything more complex, just grab the excellent PSPDFKit.
I've developed a custom reader like this which I've used for a handful of projects for clients. Search & Highlight was by far the most difficult, followed by text selection. Keeping memory usage low for large PDF's is tricky too.
I cant share my source. But here's someone who has a free library that looks promising:
http://mobfarm.eu/fastpdfkit
https://github.com/mobfarm/FastPdfKit
(it doesn't look as if the source code is available?)
Here is a nice example of a pdf reader on github. It does not do the advanced things (like text search), but it might be good as a starting place. Seems to do OK with large pdfs, so maybe the performance is not too bad.
You could port Xpdf or the forked Poppler to iOS and use their rendering capabilities as well as retrieving information such as bookmarks and URI links from the PDF for use in your application.
There is a payed option named http://pspdfkit.com/
I have been looking at the example and it seams to work the way I was hoping to find some code example
http://www.labnol.org/software/ipad-pdf-reader-apps/13807/
Update: I can't find any PDF component/library for iOS, which doesn't surprise me. So here's a crazy alternative (so crazy it just might work): Write your app in C#/.Net using MonoTouch, and incorporate the free .Net library iTextSharp. I have no idea if this would work or not.
Another idea might be to incorporate a web service (running on a server somewhere) that will convert your PDF into HTML for you. Your server component can be written in any language, which expands your PDF-component options considerably. And the things you want to do in your bullet points would be a lot easier to implement yourself with HTML.
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Hello I got a website with around 5-6 pages (plain html). There are areas in these pages where I need to update occassionally. Is there any free / opensource CMS to maintain these editable areas of HTML page.
Thanks
Perch is excellent for small sites.
At its very simplest, Perch allows you to replace static content in an HTML file with placeholders. A simple GUI then allows you to edit those placeholder values for individual pages. So, for example, if you have a file containing this chunk of markup:
<h1>My site</h1>
you can change that to:
<h1><?php perch_content('Main heading'); ?></h1>
and you'll then be able to edit 'Main heading' through the GUI. Most CMS apps work in a similar way, but Perch is the first I've come across that does very little else, which is a huge plus for small projects.
I haven't used Perch for a while, and I'm sure they've added some features since I last did, but I'd still recommend you give it a try. It's cheap, too.
I think couchcms is a pretty good open source alternative to the likes of cushycms and perch
I recommend cushy
http://www.cushycms.com/
http://drupal.org/ is very popular. Many people also use Wordpress - http://wordpress.org. Also try googling "simple cms".
The answer will obviously be dependent on the requirements of the software and the capabilities of your server.
You should also check out opensourcecms.com. You can try out various cms's there until you find one you like.
For a five-page website, Drupal is probably overkill; I'd say Wordpress is good enough (just define a page for each page of the website, copy and paste your content, choose a theme, and you're done). (You would want to either use the blogging features of WP to take full advantage of it, though.)
If for some reason you really want to try out Drupal but don't want to invest a lot of time into figuring it out (it does take some ... well, a lot ... of time to figure out right out of the box), and you're not in a big hurry, you can wait a bit until it's possible to try out the new Drupal Gardens hosted CMS system (currently in beta). (You need a beta key to try it. Sign up for the beta on the site and then wait for your key.)
Since your most likely a programmer I would recommend github's very own Jekyll:
Here are some sites powered by it:
https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/sites
As a bonus you can use Github to provide you free hosting (your site will be a public repository that only you can edit).
Have you tried using mut8? They have pretty alright features.
http://mut8.me
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I need to create a historical timeline starting from 1600's to the present day. I also need to have some way of showing events on the timeline so that they do not appear cluttered when many events are close together.
I have tried using Visio 2007 as well as Excel 2007 Radar Charts, but I could not get the results I wanted. the timeline templates in Visio are not great and using Radar charts in Excel leads to cluttered data.
Are there any other tools or techniques I could use to create these?
#Darren:
The first link looks great. Thanks! The second link did not work in Firefox and was rendered as ASCII. It opened up fine in IE.
And yes, this is for the end users. So I want it to look as presentable as possible, if you know what I mean.
Thanks again!
SIMILIE Timeline would probably suit your needs.
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
Timeline .NET: http://www.codeplex.com/timelinenet
Oh, i guess i should ask... for personal use or for display to end users? that might change what i would suggest, but this could work for internal purposes too i suppose.
Lifehacker has a good overview and tutorial of SIMILIE Timeline. They seem to like it quite a bit.
If you need a timeline from RSS Feeeds give xTimeline a try. I just used it
http://lifehacker.com/software/rss/create-a-timeline-from-rss-feeds-with-xtimeline-283098.php
#Pascal this page? http://tools.mscorlib.com/timeline/Default.aspx. If it's looking like ascii maybe look for a js error, but that renders on my system fine. If all else fails, it's a decent js library by the MIT team as it is, so you could wire up your own implementation
I also recommend Simile Timeline... I just implemented a webpage that uses it and JQuery and produces fantastic results. The downside is that you need to implement it through some html page, hook it up with the js and create some xml files, so it probably won't do for a presentational tool.
http://infosthetics.com/ is a good data visualization blog, maybe you find something there. Also check flowingdata.com
For webbased timelines, there is also:
circavie: http://flowingdata.com/2007/10/25/create-share-and-embed-custom-timelines-with-circavie/
dipity (looks killer): http://flowingdata.com/2008/08/18/tell-stories-with-interactive-timelines-from-dipity/
You can used this great timeline tool built with JavaScript.
You can download it for free here: http://timeline.verite.co/#examples