Introduction
Simple to use Month Calendar control supporting
- Vista Style Navigation
- Keyboard Support
- Full Designer Support
Features
Month Calendar control has the following features
- 6 Pre-defined Themes
- Supports alpha blend image
- Full Keyboard support
- Full Design Time support
- Supports Saving/Loading of layout colors
- Supports Disabled back color
Using the Code
Control is simple and straight forward.
Use the designer to fine tune appearance.
Keyboard
- Enter Key - Select
- Left Key - Increment Day/Month/Year/Years by one.
- Right Key - Decrement Day/Month/Year/Years by one.
- Down Key - Increment Day/month/Year/Years by one column.
- Up Key - Decrement Day/month/Year/Years by one column.
- Space bar - Change View form Date to Month, Month to Year, Years to Years.
Points of Interest
MonthCalander
Properties
Appearance
- MonthCalanderAppearance
object containing Appearance of MonthCalendar.BackGroundImageAlpha
- % of transparency of BackGroundImage
.CaptionFont
- Gets or sets Font Family to be used for drawing Caption.CurrentAppearance
- MonthCalanderAppearance
object containing current appearance.DrawFocused
- Gets or sets whether focus rectangle needs to be drawn.HotAppearance
- Gets or sets the control supports hover behaviour.NumberFont
- Gets or sets Font Family to be used for drawing numbers.SelectedDate
- Gets or sets current selected date.
Events
ValueChanged
- Fired when SelectedDate
is changed.ValueChanging
- Fired when SelectedDate
is about to be changed.
Methods
HitTest()
- Performs the HitTest
bool LoadTheme(string fileName)
- Loads the color scheme from a xml file. fileName
is location of xml file containing color scheme. Returns wether Load was successfull or not.ResetAppearance()
- Reset the appearance of Calander control to default value.bool SaveTheme(string fileName)
- Saves current color scheme of the Calander control to a xml file. fileName is path of xml file to which data will be written. Returns wether save was successful or not.
ThemeProperty
Properties
UseTheme
- Gets or Sets wether to use predefined theme or custom colors.ColorScheme
- Gets or Sets ColorScheme
to be applied. Please Note : This will not be applicable when UseTheme
is set as false
.
Events
ThemeChanged
- Fired when UseTheme
or ColorScheme
is changed.
Methods
bool DefaultChanged()
- Returns wether ThemeProperty
properties has changed or not.
MonthCalanderAppearance
Properties
ActiveTextColor
- Gets or Sets color of active text.ArrowColor
- Gets or Sets color of navigation arrow.ArrowHoverColor
- Gets or Sets hover color of navigation arroe.ButtonBackColor
- Gets or Sets back color appearance of navigation buttons.CaptionBackColor
- Gets or Sets back appearance of caption background.CaptionTextColor
- Gets or Sets color of caption text.ControlBackColor
- Gets or Sets backcolor of control.ControlBorderColor
- Gets or Sets color of borders.DateDaySaperatorColor
- Gets or Sets color of date Day saperator.DayMarker
- Gets or Sets color of Date Indicator(e.g. S M T).DisabledMask
- Gets or Sets Mask Color when control is disabled.FocusedBorder
- Gets or Sets focused border color.HoverColor
- Gets or Sets hover color.InactiveTextColor
- Gets or Sets inactive text color.Radius
- Gets or Sets radius of Arc on hover at edge.SelectedBackColor
- Gets or Sets back appearance of selected date.SelectedDateAppearance
- Gets or Sets selected date border appearance.TodayBorderColor
- Gets or Sets color of today border color.SelectedDateTextColor
- Gets or Sets text color of selected date.TodayColor
- Gets or Sets color of Today marker.
Events
AppearanceChanged
- Fired when appearance property is changed.
Methods
Assign(MonthCalanderAppearance appearance)
- Assigns properties of appearance
to current object.bool DefaultChanged()
- Returns wether ThemeProperty
properties has changed or not.Reset()
- Resets current appearance to default appearance.
Known Issues
History
- 23 October 2009: Initial draft of the control
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