many events - make it viewable / usable

Hi,

I do have 1200 events in a week with up to about 100 in paralel.
By default, the component renders only a 2 px line for each event in day view (of course month and week-view are expected to be unuseable)
I tried MinColumnWidth with no success, to make the events bigger then 2 px.

my suggestions:
- add a timeline-mode like button with an event-handler, so one could implement different views like a table
- maybe implement a table-view yourself
- make the day-view scrollable in horizontal direction (and fix or explain me how to use MinColumnWidth :-) )
- fix up the time-line view (see below) or better
- change it to be a pivot view of the day view with same look and feel like the day view (more like a gant view, where the event name is always on the left, and the time marked like in the timeline view, so you do not have to search where some event starts)

the timeline view is unusable!
- the view consumes 100% prozessor time
- scrolling takes years...
- the hint on an event is wrong (different event)
- if you click on an event, the event-change for the event shown in the hint is fired, not the event listed
- the font of the day/time looks ugly
- (as mentioned above) you have to search for events by scrolling...

-- Hinnack

I only have one calendar (resource), so I think MinColumnWidth does not work for me!
I would need MinEventWidth...
http://www.bilettix.eu/miadi.tiff

--Hinnack

but asu you can see in the screenshot
http://www.bilettix.eu/miadi.tiff
it does not work!

yes I know, the screenshot is old! but the problem persists in 13.1!
where can I download 13.2 beta?

btw: is tehre really a need for changing the guid by every new version?
It is a pain to get the new versions into my IDE and project (using Delphi)

-- Hinnack

still does not work with beta 13.2! I do net get a scrollbar nor is each event at least 120px large...
I have set:
DayView.MinColumnWidth := 120;

what do you mean by 96 px mode?
setting DayView.MinColumnWidth := 96;
does not work, too

-- Hinnack

I think I am now totally confused.
I only have one calendar (resource) with 40 appointments at the same time. (lets say at 4pm). I am talking about the day-view (you screenshot above is about week view). Now all appointments get rendered next to each other with a width of 20px (or so). I do not get any scrollbar.
I tried DayView.MinColumnWidth with different values with no success.
I want every event to be at least 120px width and if the horizontal space for this is too small, I want a scrollbar.
Is there any solution to this?
maybe you can drop me a few lines pseudo code?

-- Hinnack

Ok.
but if I try to use this on show of a day what do I need to call to update the current view?
Repaint, Invalidate, etc do not work...

I have the ViewChanged Event associated and set
DayView.MinColumnWidth = 40 (appoitments in same time moment) * Calendar.DataProvider.RetrieveDayEvents(Calendar.DayView.Selection.Begin_).Count

if I have more then 10 Events in dayview...
if I have fewer I use:
DayView.MinColumnWidth := -1

but the resize only happens, von selecting the next day...

-- Hinnack