hmCal: New version 1.9 / Calendar plugin for 4th Dimension

February 19, 2008
– hmCal is a plug-in developed by heubach media, Hamburg, Germany for 4th
Dimension.

The new version of hmCal 1.9 contains tremendous new functions and
improvements. Now you can define the spacing of grid lines and captions.
Another new enhancement is, that you can scroll through 1000 days. Date
formats has been extended and is now automatically adjust to the width of
columns. Working hours and time zones are dramatically expanded, so that
they can be defined per user.

hmCal puts simply and fast a complete calendar functionality to your 4th
Dimension application. It is always guaranteed that functionality between
Macintosh and Windows is identical.

The advantage of hmCal is that it can be integrated extremely simply into
existing solutions. A further advantage is, hmCal has NO direct access on
your data. So appointments, virtual appointments (it does not have to exist
a data record), repeated appointments etc. in complex situations (rights of
access, on-the-fly-creation) can be represented and manipulated.

Features
- 5 views: daily view, user daily views (team calendar functionality), multi
day view, user weekly view (resource management) and month view
- Multi-day appointments
- Complete adaptability of the calendar by programming language
- Stylesheets for each calendar-object
- Shifting and extending dates by the user, drag & drop in all views
- User actions/events can be administered by programming language (callback
method)
- Drag & drop of other form objects into the calendar
- The plug-in does not have a data access. So you can display appointments
in complex situations (rights of access).
- Customizable colors, icons and tooltips
- Identical function range under Macintosh and Windows

hmCal ist available as a universal binary bundle for Macintosh and Windows.
It was developed and tested with 4D 2004 and 4D v11 SQL.

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