Long-term Planning UI Ideas

[Nonsanity]

David,

I always like the occasional programming challenge to keep me fresh. So
here's a little demo stack for you. See how it fits your needs.

http://db.tt/RFGMQp7

I only just made it after reading your email an hour or so ago, so it may be
riddled with bugs... but at least there's only one script object.

I didn't go the datagrid route since that seemed overkill for this. It's all
driven by the month name fields - Their size, positions, and number
determine how the timeline scrolls. The only script is in the transparent
button "scroller" that covers the whole timeline. The start and end months
for the projects are in the project graphics' custom properties. See the
script comments for more details.

Feedback from anyone is always appreciated. :)

 ~ Chris Innanen
 ~ Nonsanity


On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:51 PM, David Glass <dglass at graymattercomputing.com
> wrote:

> Not sure how many people are both here and on the forum, so if this is a
> dup for you, I apologize.
>
> Looking for a little brainstorming, and maybe best practices for an
> interface for a long-term planner/calendar.
>
> This is basically a Yearly Calendar view rather than a Monthly or Weekly
> view. Years would be along the top as a main heading, with the months broken
> out below them. Then, spread out along the time line (as colored bars ??)
> would be whatever projects are scheduled over those months.
>
> Like so:
>
> 2011        2012        2013        ........
> JFMAMJJASONDJFMAMJJASONDJFMAMJJASOND........
>  xxxxxxxxxx
>           yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
>               zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
>                                   www.....
>
>
> (hopefully that comes through OK)
>
> I could do a really simple version using a bunch of graphics drawn directly
> on a card, but the time frame is arbitrary and could run 10s of years into
> the future (and maybe it doesn't have an end; similar to how Excel will let
> you scroll and scroll and scroll while continuously incrementing the column
> labels)), and maybe at least 10 into the past, and I'm not sure how I'd
> handle scrolling back and forward if everything was directly on a card.
>
> I've thought maybe a DataGrid, but haven't come up with any indication on
> what the maximum number of columns is (assuming there'd be a column for each
> month), and also not sure I could get the 'double header' (year and months)
> to work. I'm also not sure the Form portion of the DG would work because the
> row will be arbitrarily wide, and I don't think I can set up the row
> template to handle that.
>
> So, not sure what else is possible in LC (just starting out), so any and
> all input is welcome.
>
> --
> David Glass - Gray Matter Computing
> graymattercomputing.com
>
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