Cannot resize TCalendar

[Avishai]

Give me a few minutes and I'll see if I can show you what it should be for BiDiMode:= RightToLeft.

[Avishai]

OK.  This is TCalendar made RightToLeft by mirroring.  But I have to turn Themes off to get this.  Otherwise, the whole TForm.Canvas is corrupted and can not be used.  Obviously this is under Windows OS.

[Avishai]

I could show it to you in Hebrew, but I doubt it it be any clearer. 

[JD]

I've had some difficulty putting it on a form.

In what way?, if you add the units to your project and then click on the TFrame on the standard palette, you should get a dialog for selecting.   Btw.  Don't do it from the Components Search, inserting a TFrame from here doesn't pop up the dialog, looks like a bug in Lazarus.

It didn't work. I attach a screenshot to show you the problem I had.

[KpjComp]

It didn't work. I attach a screenshot to show you the problem I had.

It looks like you haven't added the units to your project, you can't just include the units in the uses clause, you need to let the project know about these files too. 

Go to Project / Project Inspector and see if the Calendar units are there.

[KpjComp]

I hope you're doing well.

Not too bad, was on a Holiday a couple of weeks ago, had no internet while there.  Annoyingly the site had Wifi but for internal use only.       And of course get back to work and a bit of catching up to do..

[Avishai]

Oy!  No Internet!?    Where the hell did you go!?  Even Mars has Internet!  For people that live on the Net, that's "cruel and unusual punishment!"

[JD]

Even Mars has Internet!

Where can I buy a ticket to go there? 

[JD]

It didn't work. I attach a screenshot to show you the problem I had.

It looks like you haven't added the units to your project, you can't just include the units in the uses clause, you need to let the project know about these files too. 

Go to Project / Project Inspector and see if the Calendar units are there.

The Calendar units are there, see the screenshot below:

[Phil]

OK.  This is TCalendar made RightToLeft by mirroring.  But I have to turn Themes off to get this.  Otherwise, the whole TForm.Canvas is corrupted and can not be used.  Obviously this is under Windows OS.

Yes, that looks like what I expected. If someone is interested in adding support, I would just publish BiDiMode and ParentBiDiMode properties in TOvcCalendar rather than adding to the list of Options.

Note that on Mac the TCalendar doesn't look much like that in style - it's, uh, crude is probably a polite way of putting it. See attachment - TCalendar is on left, TOvcCalendar is on right (with its "Today" button to jump back to today).

Thanks.

-Phil

[Avishai]

Yes, you are being overly polite   It doesn't look quite as bad with Themes turned on, but still...  TCalendar is a piece of &$%^.  And Themes make it impossible to use when mirrored.  It's just a black rectangle.

I would love to try TOvcCalendar but I'm stuck with Windows64, so I haven't downloaded it.

[Phil]

I would love to try TOvcCalendar but I'm stuck with Windows64, so I haven't downloaded it.

On Mac, I'm limited to 32-bits because of its dependence on Carbon. I don't recall exactly how I ported THtmlPort to 64-bits - maybe I just made the changes and somebody tested.

Thanks.

-Phil

[JD]

@KpjComp

I can send a test project to show you what I did so you can try it on your computer. I just could not get the frame based calender to work. 

[KpjComp]

Hi @JD, looking at your screenshot it looks like you didn't add the LFM files too.
eg. ->

edit: I'm not sure if that's your problem, if you want you could post a test project.
The only only thing I noised is the the files were not in the same directory as your project, not sure if this is an issue with Frames or not.

[JD]

I put the lfm files in the same directory as the project and I still can't get it to work.

Here's the screenshot.