Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks

Is there a TK based or a wideget that I can use to produce a yearly Calendar?

Thanks

Edited by Chady -- fixed "Calendar" from "Calander" in title AND in body text.

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Re: Calendar in Perl TK
by zentara (Cardinal) on Jul 07, 2004 at 13:42 UTC
    I had this script laying around in my dungeon, not written by me; but it may give you a start. Put it in a loop for 0-11 or 1-12.
    #!/usr/bin/perl # # Copyright 2000 Philip Yuson # Distributed as per the Perl copyright agreement. # # This script was written to illustrate Perl/Tk statements. # it was written with Windows in mind as if this were written for # Linux or Unix, I would have used the 'cal' command and the routines # would be a lot simpler. # # use strict; use Tk; # of course you need this use Date::Calc; # you need this to calculate your date # Parms entered are year and month my ($year, $month) = @ARGV; # set the maximum number of days for each month my @maxdays = (0, 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31); #if leap year, change the max days for Feb $maxdays[2] = 29 if ($year % 4 == 0); #if leap century, change the max days for Feb $maxdays[2] = 29 if ($year %400 == 0); # Set $a to get the day of the week my $a = Date::Calc::Date_to_Text($year, $month, 01); my @dateText = split(" ", $a); # split on spaces my @Literal = split("-", $dateText[1]); # split on '-' $_ = $dateText[0]; # set to day of week my @dayArray = ('Su', 'Mo', 'Tu', 'We', 'Th', 'Fr', 'Sa'); # Set the +day array #set the day hash my %days = ("Sun"=>0, "Mon"=>1, "Tue"=>2, "Wed"=>3, "Thu"=>4, "Fri"=>5 +, "Sat"=>6); my $day = $days{$_}; # get the day number my $on; my $ndx = 0; # initialize day number my $m = new MainWindow; # start a new window $m->configure(-title=>"$Literal[1] $Literal[2]"); # set the window ti +tle for (my $row = 0; $row < 7; $row++) { # create calendar rows for (my $col = 0; $col < 7; $col++) { # create calendar column +s $b = $m->Button(-width=>2, # Create Button -activeforeground=>'white', # format the foreground -activebackground=>'blue'); # also the background $b->grid(-row=>$row, -column=>$col); # put this in the right +place if ($row eq 0) { # if first row, $b->configure(-text=>$dayArray[$col], # disable the button -state=>'disabled'); } else { if ($col eq $day && $row eq 1) { $on = 1; $ndx = 1 } # Turn + on switch if start of day if (int($ndx) > int($maxdays[$month])) { $on = 0 } # Turn + off switch if all days are displayed if ($on) { $b->configure(-text=>$ndx++); # put the day on the butt +on # and add one to the day $b->bind("<ButtonPress>", # If the button is presss +ed [\&DateSelected, $year, $month]); # execute the +Date Selected subroutine } else { $b->configure(-state=>'disabled'); # if switch if off, d +isable button } } if ($col eq 0) { #if first column, this is Su +nday $b->configure(-fg=>'red', # configure button -activeforeground=>'white', -activebackground=>'red'); } } if (int($ndx) > int($maxdays[$month])) { last } # if all days di +splayed. exit } MainLoop; #Loop sub DateSelected { # execute when button is pre +ssed my ($w, $year, $month) = @_; # get the parms (widget, yea +r and month) my $text = $w->cget(-text); # get the text on the but +ton print "Date Selected: $text\t$year\t$month\n"; # display informat +ion }

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Re: Calendar in Perl TK
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 07, 2004 at 11:50 UTC
    Calendar::Simple might be a good start if you were planning to build one yourself.
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Re: Calendar in Perl TK
by PerlingTheUK (Hermit) on Jul 07, 2004 at 11:44 UTC
    Never heard of any, Tk::DateEntry might help for a month, you could create a frame and try to insert the pop up window as it is in DateEntry.
    Just as a thought.
Re: Calendar in Perl TK
by eserte (Deacon) on Jul 07, 2004 at 22:06 UTC
Re: Calendar in Perl TK
by gri6507 (Deacon) on Jul 07, 2004 at 13:00 UTC
    A quick search of CPAN produced Tk::DateEntry, which looks exactly like what you'd like.