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cgarvey · Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 7

Great product, but a little difficult to configure.

I'm writing a JAVA taglib to use in conjunction with your popCal control so that junior developers don't have to become familiar with your product in order to use it. The problem I have run in to is that it doesn't seem to be possible to determine the type of calendar required on any given page dynamically.

I would like to include the calendar in a basic page template and then dynamically choose whether a date only, date and time, or just time popup appears.

Is this possible to do? It seems to me at first glance that I will need to include 3 calendars to do this - is there another way?

calendarxp · Site Admin Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 409

I think you just need 1 calendar iframe tag on page but using taglib to choose between the plugins, which is configurable via the name & id of the iframe.

Also note that you may override the theme options in the plugins.js. e.g. you may add the following in plugins_time.js to create a plugins_timeonly.js:

cgarvey · Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 7

Sorry, I just realised I didn't state the problem clearly.
As you rightly point out, I could of course dynamically write out the theme to use but that supposes that I only need one of each calendar type per page.

What I would like is to be able to dynamically assign a theme based on the kind of control I want so that I can have a date only, date and time and time only input fields on the page but only one iframe.

I've looked at the code in more detail now and I think this may be possible, I just need to come up with a theme that has functions for setting up all 3 scenarios and then wrap another function around the fPopCalendar function to add another parameter.

Whew!

Is there a simpler way?

calendarxp · Site Admin Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 409

There is another way to do it - dynamically generate the iframe tag on demand.

Please check the following FAQ for details:
http://www.calendarxp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=75

cgarvey · Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 7

Wouldn't generating the iframe on the fly generate a noticeable delay though? I assume the client system would need to interpret the javascript and reload the page everytime... though it might be possible to generate and cache these..

I will run some tests and let you know how it works out. Thanks for the advice.