Google Calendar like interface [closed]

Question

I need to write an application that essentially functions like a week-view of a calendar, columns for the days and then rows for appointments. Where the height of the appointment box visually represents time.

In my case, I just don't want the time of day as the vertical axis, I just want hours or mins. The Google AJAX approach is very clean and easy to use and would be perfect, I think, but my major knowledge comes in ASP.Net and Windows Forms (.Net).

I don't want to reinvent the wheel, but I find my mind is stuck on this problem and that I would have to create an interface from scratch for this. I have checked out the Infragistics product (used it for other projects) and read up a lot on the Google API's including their Ajax Toolkit. I haven't done Java, however learning a language is not my issue, it's learning the particulars that will help me reach my goal that I feel will take most of the time.

Am i making a mountain out of a mole hill? Is this really a lot easier than I think? This is starting to sound like a Dear Abby post - I'll stop now. Any advice or insight would be great!

Answer 1

I recommend you do use some existing toolkit, lib or js widget that does that. I find this lib may fit you: ftr-gwt-library. I started to write a GWT component just for that, but I dont' have alot of time to finish it. The site is gwt-scheduler.

IMHO, GWT is great for this type of AJAX apps, althought it takes some time to grok the concepts and quirks (mostly css quirks between browsers). Both links are GWT components, and it is relatively easy to expose GWT components to javascript.

Answer 2

www.web2cal.com will be a good place to start? There are few more, if you search in stack overflow you should be able to see.