External calendar services

General
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My Google-Fu is failing me at the moment.

I was wondering if there is a Xojo add-on calendar control that links to both Google and Apple calendars?

I see that there are some excellent calendar controls around both free and commercial but I’m not seeing one that handles external services.

Am I right in thinking that Chilkat in addition to a calendar plug-in is my best bet?

Thanks in advance.

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You re talking about two issues:

  1. Calendar Controls in Xojo
    You have the free choice of several addon providers, I have chosen Einhugur (date/time pickers) and Jeremie Leroy (overview) for my apps.

  2. CalDAV Connection to Calendar Services
    This is, what you can establish with CURLMBS or Xojo built-in functions as well.

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That’s why I wrote the post above, I said that I could find solutions for each problem but not a combined one.

I wanted a calendar control that could be linked to Google and Apple calendars.

[quote=465951:@Tomas Jakobs]You re talking about two issues:

  1. Calendar Controls in Xojo
    You have the free choice of several addon providers, I have chosen Einhugur (date/time pickers) and Jeremie Leroy (overview) for my apps.

  2. CalDAV Connection to Calendar Services
    This is, what you can establish with CURLMBS or Xojo built-in functions as well.[/quote]

4

GraffitiWebCalendar/GraffitiCalendar supports ICSImport and ICSExport, as well as adding Google Calendars as an external source. I have just fixed an issue with Google Calendar support in the Web version, and that will be available in the next release.

5

Thank you Anthony, I’m a bit thick but looking at your documentation I can’t see if this does what I wanted.

From your documentation it looks like I can call a function that populates your calendar from Google, I was hoping for a solution that for example if I had a Thursday at 2PM meeting and it was dragged to Wednesday at 4PM then the calendar would be updated.

Can your product do this please?

6

Unfortunately not without refetching the events. Sorry about that.

7

Thanks for the quick reply.

Can I ask then is it bi-directional?

If a user drags an appointment as per the example I gave above in your plugin can I push that to the Google calendar?

Also, do you have any plans to support Apple Calendars too?

Thank you.

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No, this is an import from Google Calendar via API key to GraffitiCalendarEvent objects. Likewise with support for ICS (iCal format). There is no updating of a remote server/API when changes are made.

9

Ok. Thank you Anthony.

10

Sorry I couldn’t be of more help.

11

It’s fine - thank you for the quick responses.