Where can I find a Flex Calendar?

This question comes in from Andrew, who heard me talking about the Flextras Calendar in the last episode of The Flex Show.

Hi Jeffry, I just listened to the October News issue of The Flex Show podcast. I heard you mention a calendar app you've been working on. I've been tangling with the Flex Community Blog calendar app which is based on the Quietly Schemeing calendar app. Both of these use the CalendarDisplay class which looks like it was distributed by Adobe in 2006, is your project based on this class? Will your calendar be available to the community? If so, can I take a look at it?

First, thanks for listening to the show.

The Flextras Calendar is something we are building from scratch, so it is not based on the Quietly Scheming / Ely Greenfield code. It will be a commercial component from Flextras, my Flex Component company.

You can find out more information about the Flextras Calendar here.

Also check out the ASDocs and the API Explorer demo.

The Flextras Calendar is built for flexibility and focuses on using renderers so you can customize to your hearts content. The API is a mash up of the DateChooser and List classes.

Although, we have not finished the development of it yet, we have made it available as a preview release and everyone who buys the preview release will be automatically upgraded to our unlimited domain edition. We're pretty sure that the API and classes will be refactored a bit in the final release than the preview release.

For our thoughts on building a Calendar, watch The Flex Show Video series on creating Flex Components.

If you want early access to the Flextras Calendar [without buying the pre-release version] you'll need to join our beta program. Sign up for an account at Flextras.com. You'll be asked to verify your e-mail address, and once you do, you'll be able to access a "join beta program" link from the account menu. I'd love to have some slightly more active beta testers.

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