When creating an event, don't default to a two day timeframe about etar-calendar HOT 4 CLOSED

For my calendar view (Day, Week, Month), if I have it set to "Month", when I create an event, it defaults to an "All Day" event. If I set it to "Day" or "Week", when I long-press on the day's hour interval (in calendar view), it opens with a one-hour interval beginning and ending on the same day.

This is probably expected behavior. Try setting your calendar view to "Week" or "Day" before creating short-duration events. See if you get "All Day" or a hour interval when you create an event.

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Ah yes you're right. I didn't realise that there was different behaviour according to the view.

I'm not sure if I'm unusual in my behaviour, but I only use month view, and would appreciate perhaps an option in the settings to allow me to set the default time to 1 hour on one day (when creating an event from the month view).

But good to know that I can switch views to get around the issue - thank you!

On 12 February 2016 05:08:01 GMT+13:00, jeffkrebs [email protected] wrote:

For my calendar view (Day, Week, Month), if I have it set to "Month",
when I create an event, it defaults to an "All Day" event. If I set it
to "Day" or "Week", when I long-press on the day's hour interval (in
calendar view), it opens with a one-hour interval beginning and ending
on the same day.

This is probably expected behavior. Try setting your calendar view to
"Week" or "Day" before creating short-duration events. See if you get
"All Day" or a hour interval when you create an event.

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The behavior is based-on reducing the amount of typing and scrolling you have to do. You forward the month-view to November, switch to week-view (it stays on November), and drill-down graphically to the hour. It's all about leveraging the GUI to your advantage so you can "use thumbs instead of fingers". Stepping back, it makes sense.

I used to set it to "Month" exclusively, but the view is limited; now I jump back-and-forth between month and week views. I prefer a Launcher widget like:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plusonelabs.calendar

It's open source, and works really well for upcoming events. The built-in Etar/Calendar widget only looks ahead a week; CalendarWidget displays from current day until it runs out of room, and has more configuration options. (EDIT: It doesn't "run out of room"; you can specify the time interval you want displayed - day, week, 2 weeks, month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months, year - and scroll down right in the widget).

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Related to #289

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