Controlling Background Color of Events

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   I am trying to set the background color of an event in the calendar to a custom color.  I am not using the 2007 theme.  From the documentation, it appears that I could create new custom Calendar Label Event, and assign that event's Label Id to a Calendar Event.  
I tried this but it doesn't work.  I suspect the calendar does not know about my new custom Label Event.

Where is what I have tried.  How can I get my custom background color to work?

// First I declare a Calendar Events Label object.
CXTPCalenarEventLabels  _calendarEventLabels;

// I initialize the calendar events label object to get the defaul labels
_calendarEventLabels.InitDefaultValues();

// I create a new label event
CXTPCalendarEventLabel * eventLabel = new CXTPCalendarEventLabel( newLabelID, newBackgroundColor, newLabelName  );

// I add the new label event to the calendar events label object
_calendarEventLabels.Add( eventLabel );

// I create a calendar event
CXTPCalendarEventPtr calendarEvent = newCalendarEvent(...);

// I assign the new label id to calendar event
calendarEvent->SetLabelID( newLabelID );

// I add my event to my data provider
calendarData->AddEvent( calendarEvent );

// I call populate
Populate(); 

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pdub Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 29 January 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote pdub Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Controlling Background Color of Events Posted: 30 January 2008 at 8:53am
	I am trying to set the background color of an event in the calendar to a custom color. I am not using the 2007 theme. From the documentation, it appears that I could create new custom Calendar Label Event, and assign that event's Label Id to a Calendar Event. I tried this but it doesn't work. I suspect the calendar does not know about my new custom Label Event. Where is what I have tried. How can I get my custom background color to work? // First I declare a Calendar Events Label object. CXTPCalenarEventLabels _calendarEventLabels; // I initialize the calendar events label object to get the defaul labels _calendarEventLabels.InitDefaultValues(); // I create a new label event CXTPCalendarEventLabel * eventLabel = new CXTPCalendarEventLabel( newLabelID, newBackgroundColor, newLabelName ); // I add the new label event to the calendar events label object _calendarEventLabels.Add( eventLabel ); // I create a calendar event CXTPCalendarEventPtr calendarEvent = newCalendarEvent(...); // I assign the new label id to calendar event calendarEvent->SetLabelID( newLabelID ); // I add my event to my data provider calendarData->AddEvent( calendarEvent ); // I call populate Populate();

pdub Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 29 January 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote pdub Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 February 2008 at 11:39am
	To answer my own question: The CXTPCalendarData class provides an interface to define custom event labels called "SetLabelList(...)".

prashant Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 19 February 2007 Location: India Status: Offline Points: 165	Post Options Post Reply Quote prashant Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2008 at 7:52am
	Can you please post the working source again? Thanks in advance.

pdub Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 29 January 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote pdub Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2008 at 9:06am
	Hopefully, this is what you are looking for. I have a class called CWin32Calendar. The class inherits from CXTPCalendarControl. In the class, I keep a copy of the labels CXTPCalendarEventLabels _calendarEventLabels; In the class constructor, I initialize _calendarEventLabels with the default labels by calling InitDefaultValues() _calendarEventLabels.InitDefaultValues(); Later on, I add my own custom event labels to _calendarEventLabels. For the calendar to know about my custom labels, I must update the event labels via the calendar's data provider. Here is the code I am using to update the data provider. void CWin32Calendar::setCustomCalendarEventLabels() { // Are we using custom labels? if ( _customEventLabels ) { // Yes // Now, get the data provider, make a copy of our label list // and set the data providers label list, so the data provider // knows about the custom labels. CXTPCalendarData * calendarData = GetDataProvider(); if ( calendarData ) { // We are going to make a copy of our local list of event labels CXTPCalendarEventLabels * copyCalendarEventLabels = new CXTPCalendarEventLabels(); if ( copyCalendarEventLabels ) { // Go through our local copy of the labels, // and make a copy int labelCount = _calendarEventLabels.GetCount(); for ( int i=0; i < labelCount; i++ ) { CXTPCalendarEventLabel * eventLabel = _calendarEventLabels.Find( i ); if ( eventLabel ) { // Copy label CXTPCalendarEventLabel * copyEventLabel = new CXTPCalendarEventLabel( eventLabel->m_nLabelID, eventLabel->m_clrColor, eventLabel->m_strName ); if ( copyEventLabel ) { // Add the event lable copy to the event label list. copyCalendarEventLabels->InsertAt( i, copyEventLabel ); } else { ASSERT( FALSE ); } } else { ASSERT( FALSE ); } } // Update the data provider with the event label copy calendarData->SetLabelList( copyCalendarEventLabels ); } } else { ASSERT( FALSE ); } } }

prashant Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 19 February 2007 Location: India Status: Offline Points: 165	Post Options Post Reply Quote prashant Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2008 at 10:25am
	Thanks a lot I am looking for the same.

prashant Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 19 February 2007 Location: India Status: Offline Points: 165	Post Options Post Reply Quote prashant Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 April 2008 at 2:31am
	Hi, Is there any way to set Event text color? Thanks in advance.

pdub Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 29 January 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote pdub Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 May 2008 at 3:37pm
	Concerning setting the Event Text Color, I was never able to get it to work. Sorry.