Calendar gui for date selection

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1

how do i create a calendar gui in unity, so that i can select a specific date? thanks, flexrails

4

Check msdn for custom formatting of date strings and play around with how the GUI system works in general to e.g. browse around a calendar using conditional buttons or toggles.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System; //Unity does not add this by default when creating a new script

public class CalendarGUI : MonoBehaviour 
{
	private string[] Months;

	void Start()
	{
		//fill an array with the names of the months
		Months = new string[12];
		System.DateTime iMonth = new System.DateTime(2009,1,1);
		for (int i = 0; i < 12; ++i) 
		{
			iMonth = new System.DateTime(2009, i+1, 1);
			Months *= iMonth.ToString("MMMM");*
*		}*
*	}*
*	void OnGUI ()* 
*	{*
*		//show the months in a grid and select the current month*
*		GUILayout.SelectionGrid(System.DateTime.Now.Month-1, Months, 3);*
*	}*
*}*
*```*
*<p>It can easily be modified to show weekdays, dates and virtually anything from System.DateTime.</p>*
*<p>Have fun! I'm looking forward to see what you come up with.</p>*
2

Start with designing and capturing requirements for what you want to be the end product. Then I suppose it's just a bunch of buttons and states, and listing which days are found for a given month (or how you want to present the view of the calendar). I think you can find some helping methods in the .NET DateTime class.

But first and foremost, make clear for yourself how you want the calendar to look, feel and behave.

3

For the GUI I suggest you take look at GUILayout.SelectionGrid which can provide you with an easy way of setting up your buttons in the calendar, after that, it is just design which varies a lot from calendar to calendar.

5

I don’t have much time for a more complete answer, unfortunately, but I’d try uitable to create a table and to define the CellSelectionCallback to get the date.

Here's a bit to get you started:

dates = calendar;
dates(~any(dates,2),:) = [];
fh = figure;
uh = uitable('parent',fh,'data',dates,'ColumnWidth',repmat({20},1,7),...
             'ColumnName',{'S','M','T','W','T','F','S'});

Anyway, this reminds of the C# calendar, I read through all the calendar control tutorial, but nothing found for the for the date selection.