Calendar Widget Example

Demonstrates a monthly calendar with customizable headers and event highlighting.

Rendering dates in a grid involves complex calculations for leap years and weekday offsets. This widget handles that logic, letting you focus on displaying dates.

Features Demonstrated

• Headers: Toggling the Month name and Weekday labels.

• Surrounding Days: displaying (or hiding/dimming) days from the previous and next months to fill the grid.

• Event Styling: applying specific styles to individual Time or Date objects to highlight events.

Hotkeys

• h: Toggle Month Header (show_month_header)

• w: Toggle Weekday Labels (show_weekdays_header)

• s: Toggle Surrounding Days (show_surrounding)

• e: Toggle Example Events (events)

• q: Quit

Usage

ruby examples/widget_calendar/app.rb

Learning Outcomes

Use this example if you need to…

• Display a date picker.

• Show a schedule or timeline view.

• Highlight specific dates (deadlines, holidays) on a calendar grid.

Read the source code →