7 day calendar for showing hourly schedules

[NicktheNewbie]

I'm trying to display 10 hours in 15 minute increments on a vb.net form.
For instance...

2:00
2:15
2:30
2:45
3:00
3:15
.......all the way up to
11:00
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00

I'd like to have each of these values be linkable to a database I've got, it holds movie scheduling information.

AND, I'd like to be able to show 7 days on the form at any given time.

The idea is that a theatre manager could use this interface to schedule a weeks worth of movies.

Not sure how to approach this.

Are listboxes a good idea? I suppose I could have 40 buttons (10 hours x the 15 minute intervals) all next to each other, but this seems tedious.

The database just holds a start time for a movie, and the length...
Ideally, I'd like to have this schedule be "blocked off" after a movie is scheduled... so they don't overlap, etc.


Any general suggestions for how to build a calendar like this, what type of controls to use, etc?

I can use a dtaetimepicker to select a given date without issue, but I still need to be able to show big blocks of a schedule at once, and am at a loss as to how to approach this.

Thanks all.

 

[benlinkknilneb]

Check out the control made by this company:

http://www.sourcecodestore.com

This allows you to create a Gantt Chart, with as many rows as you need, and do all sorts of cool stuff with it. We bought a license for this thing where I work... and it's really reliable. We're using it in a manufacturing scheduling program. You can download a sample version with one of those annoyance screens... it's fully functional though, so you can see how it works.

Ben

Ben
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[NicktheNewbie]

This looks awesome.
But I'm really just trying to find something simple.

Anybody ever made a simple calendar from scratch?

 

[Tarwn]

You could generate your own using the System.Drawing package and the Paint Event in your form.

Pick a width and height for your rectangles then just loop drawing rectangles to the screen based on the day number and the hour/block number, color them one color for open and one color for closed.
You could probably encapsulate the whole thing in an pbject with functions to add shows for a single day or multiple days at certain times with certain lengths of showing, then have a master array that kept track of wherther each half-hour block was open or closed.
Catching a mouse event gives you the mouse coordinates, then you would simply floor(mousePosition.X/block_width) and same for height to figure out which block was clicked on.

Dunno, sometimes I make things more complicated then they need to be

-T

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