DayPilot News Blog

A new AJAX event editing demo is in the DayPilot Pro sandbox.

How it works:

1. When you click an event the edit mode is activated.
2. The original Text value (DataTextField) is the default text. Modifying event InnerHTML in BeforeEventRender has no effect on the default text.
   
3. When you click outside of the event or hit Enter the changes are sent to the server using an AJAX call.
4. When you hit Esc the changes are discarded.
   

The new maintenance release of the open-source DayPilot Lite was released yesterday.

Fixes and improvements of DayPilot Lite 2.2

• Extra 5px space added after calendar events (so the underlying time slot are always accessible)
• JavaScriptEventAction HTML encoding fixed (allows using quotation marks in the JavaScript code)
  

The next maintenance release is planned for 1 July 2007. Unless there is a serious bug the collected bug fixes will be part of that release. Fixes of serious bugs would be released immediately.

DayPilot Pro

DayPilot Pro edition contains extra features (both AJAX and non-AJAX) and is worth a download (fully functional trial version).

Download

• DayPilot Lite download

DocType Compatibility

• HTML 4.01 Transitional
• XHTML 1.0 Transitional
• XHTML 1.1

Browser Compatibility

• Firefox 1.5/2.0
• Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0

On April 1 2007, a new version of DayPilot Pro was released.

It's a big step from DayPilot 3.1 - this release introduced a first set of AJAX features:

• Event resizing by drag&drop.
• Event moving by drag&drop.
• Event creating by drag&drop.
• Event deleting from context menu.

I'm proud of two things:

• The AJAX features don't require any third party library (including ASP.NET AJAX from Microsoft). The control is fully self-contained and you just need to drag it from the Visual Studio Toolbox to start using it in your project like in previous versions.
• The AJAX callback handling is as easy as PostBack handling. Only one more line is required (see more in the documentation for AJAX event moving feature). You can even use the same event handler for both PostBack and AJAX callback.
  

You can test all the AJAX features on the main demo page. The demo is the best place to see the new features. However, you can also check:

• DayPilot Pro 3.5 release notes (includes new features description)
• DayPilot Pro feature overview (updated)

And we're not finished yet. The development continues and even more new features are coming soon:

• DayPilot Pro 3.6 (planned for 15 April)
• DayPilot Pro 4.0 (planned for 1 May)

As DayPilot Pro is getting more features there is also a lot more to explain. I'm working on a detailed documentation and a new tutorial. You can already use DayPilot Pro 3.5 server-side API reference (MSDN style).

My thanks go to all the users who are suggesting and discussing new features and are patiently testing the pre-release versions.

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me (daypilot @ annpoint.com).