calendar control

[Kira Roark]

So, I've been asked to create a basic 2 year calendar. The focus of the project will be images associated with each month (which I can handle fine...easy). The challenge for me is going to be handling allowing users to add/edit data for each day in the calendar. Is the MS Calendar control 8 a good start? I'd like to save all the data to a local accessDB or flat file so that when someone enters in "Jim's birthday" for May 25 the calendar will save that data.

Very odd project for me. Seems useless, but interesting break from the norm.

Looking for some general advice.

Oh yeah, I should mention that the program will be installed on win98/2000/XP machines.

thanks

[RobDog888]

I would suggest using an Access db instead of a flat file. Also, I
don't like the mscal.ocx control because its unpredictable accross
different os platforms/versions. How about using a datetime
picker control and displaying the records in some other type of
control (Grid, listview, or ???)?

[sridharavijay]

I believe you can use flat files also but a bit more coding will be needed.
However advantage is that your application will be less weighted and can work on any machine which doesnt have DAO or ADO components.
Again if you use random access files, the file will be huge, and with sequential files it will be smaller, but in a sequential file, you should have a key to fetch again. There is a tradeoff!

I used sequential file instead for such application as I had to store some 30 years of data. It works fine

With database you are restricting the access to only OFFICE users

Secondly MSCAL is a stupid control, though it serves the purpose as Rob said. Use datepicker or MonthView control from MSCOMCTL2.ocx..

[Kira Roark]

sridharavijay - With database you are restricting the access to only OFFICE users

I'm assuming that this is a false statement. Correct? It is my understanding that AccessDB can be distributed with an installer that includes MDAC. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the advice on the controls I'll check them out.

[RobDog888]

Yes Kira you are correct in your assumption. As long as your
installation package includes MDAC you absolutely do not need
Access at all. Not unless you want to develop some Access Forms
as the GUI, then thats a different story.

HTH