Custom CalendarView

[0pd]

Default CalendarView lacks range selection feature which is a common calendar use case.

This feature requires new appearance settings like border cell and middle cell styles so it can't be attached to default control in a simple manner.

Discuss.

[skendrot]

Are you thinking something that opens a view with three months viewable at once and allowing the user to pick the start/end dates?

[0pd]

The view in general is the same.

[skendrot]

The same as? The current CalendarView? Can you provide some images of how you think this would look?

[0pd]

Same as UWP CalendarView. I'm not a designer and I can't share my company's design.

Basic idea is to provide a style of selected cell (single date / period borders) and a style of cells between period borders (if the period was selected). And of course the behaviour of selection.

May be the text customization is also important, for example user may need capitalize day names (it's just a general DataTemplate for cell, may be).

[skendrot]

Like two boxes for the start and end? One box that contains both the start and the end?

[jneidlinger]

@skendrot I'm assuming @llvk is talking about something similar to this (Android implementation)

I think you could actually accomplish something like this with use of the CalendarView control's "black out" date functionality + some clever styling - though the implementation might be a little hairy.

[andrewleader]

In addition to that, here's what I personally need from a CalendarView

Custom items on each day, custom UI on each day ("+" button on the day appears when mouse hovers).

I had to build my own custom calendar control. I would much rather use a better designed custom calendar control. The one included in UWP XAML doesn't let you do any of this.

[skendrot]

@Anbare sounds like you've already built this control. Would you want to submit a PR?

[andrewleader]

Mine doesn't follow the standard ItemTemplate and other practices that actual XAML controls follow (it's mostly custom-built for my purposes)... it might be easy for me to re-factor it, I could look into it... but I don't have a lot of free time, so if anyone else has something, I'm happy to let them submit something.

Here's some requirements that I think would allow the control to achieve everyone's goals

• Individual CalendarMonthView control, so that if you want to display standalone months, you can (maybe you display a grid of 4 months, etc)
• CalendarView control that consumes the CalendarMonthView
• CalendarView supports swiping left/right to switch months
• CalendarView supports arrows that appear when hovered allowing mouse users to switch months
• CalendarView supports mouse scroll to switch months
• CalendarView supports adding buttons/elements that stay fixed while scrolling (like a Go To Today button)
• CalendarMonthView allows custom headers/UI elements to be added
• CalendarMonthView allows overriding the weekday headers
• CalendarMonthView allows overriding content in the days, including changing the position of where the day number is displayed, etc
• All those CalendarMonthView options can be configured somehow from the CalendarView

[skendrot]

@Anbare Great starting point for a CalendarEntry type control. This is of course different than what @llvk originally started this thread about. They would both be good additions

[0pd]

@Anbare up/down swipe is more evident (for mouse interaction consistency), isn't it?

[deltakosh]

I added SDKCHECK label to point this discussion to XAML team ad they may be interested by this feedback

[IbraheemOsama]

@nmetulev this issue needs a SDK check :P

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[gillesbergerp]

I just wanted to ask, if there are some news on this topic. I'm highly interested in a standalone calendar control - the built-in just offers far too less customization options.