How to display a simple pop-up calendar?

DesktopX widgets have lot's of calendars.  If you don't have DesktopX you can look for the fully compiled gadgets that don't require DesktopX to run.  Try searching the DesktopX widgets gallery for adni18.  He has a couple of calendar gadgets in there that work well.

Thanks, will do.

I downloaded a calendar and DesktopX, but that's no what I wanted. I was looking for a calendar that can pop-up from anywhere; with this widget, I have to go to the desktop to see the calendar. In the settings, I tried both Normal and Desktop level but it doesn't work like Microsoft calenar pop-up that pops-up with one click and hides with another.

Hi again missoctavia I didn't realise completely you wanted that popup ability for the calendar object.

So, if you wanted this little calendar object to open the standard windows date time panel just go to control panel and right click on Date and Time in icon view and choose create shortcut and place a shortcut to Date and Time on your desktop.  You can then move this new shortcut to any folder of your choosing.  Finally just give the path to your Date and Time shortcut to the Object Dock calendar object.  You can also configure the calendar object to instead launch Outlook.  I've got it working here.

So my calendar object path looks like this:

C:\Documents and Settings\Big Dog\Desktop\Shortcut to Date and Time

with the shortcut to Date and Time on my desktop. 

Is this what you had in mind?

Thanks, it is indeed what I had in mind; unfortunately when I click on Date and Time, the configuration window is opened (the one with the tabs and Internet Time) instead of the pop-up calendar.

I'm not sure what pop-up calendar you're referring to then.  How do you access it now?  Maybe if I knew this I could walk you through setting up the calendar you want to see.

I am looking for the same thing I believe. I was using Windows Sidebar. It has a default calendar gadget that shows the current month. Simple and quick to see without launching some other app. Think "clock face" but in this case "Calendar Face". Seems simple enough - I bet a good programmer could write this in an hour or so.  However, I am not one. :-0

It should be kept simple - I don't need appointment's here. I don't need alarms, reminders, etc... I have Outlook for that.

This could be kinda like the weather docklet. I would see the single calendar page on the object dock I have now. Place your curser over it and up pops the entire current month calendar. Or, better yet, a fan-out with last month, this month and next month. Even better, make it configurable so I can specifiy what the fan out should be. I would choose this month and the next five. OK, so I am a bit needy. but I hope this helps.

MissOctavia, are we on the same page?

/JJ

100% You described it pefectly.

I was actually surprised that a simple calendar docklet didn't exist. I found a few applications online but they were all system tray apps, which is a bit limiting.

I wanted the same little pop up calendar to display when I clicked the calendar dock icon; it defaulted to my outlook calendar.

I found this simple, tiny calendar that I installed and replaced outlook.exe in the config section of the calendar docklet with this application.  Works great.  Maybe it is what you are looking for.

Check out

http://blueonionsoftware.com/calendar.aspx

mercury52

That's pretty neat, I was just using WinCal of Windows Vista but I didn't like that it was just so large.

C:\Program Files\Windows Calendar\WinCal.exe for anyone that does want to use it anyway.

Did anyone ever find a way to access the windows calendar popup that MissOctavia mentioned at the beginning of this topic?  The popup that happens when you click on the system date in the task bar (it shows a calendar and clock).  That popup would be great to use.

Mercury52

Go to Control Panel and make a shortcut for Time and Date. Then open options of Calendar docklet and browse created shortcut.

I think there should be more straigt way to do it.

Your suggestion creates a shortcut to a window that allows you to change the date/time, I am looking to create a shortcut to the window that displays a calendar and clock and allows you to go forward/backward through months.  It shows up when you click the date in the taskbar.

Vista? I'm on XP, sorry

Yep, Vista.  Thanks anyway.

I'd love that feature myself, but I can't find it unfortunately!

what about using Rainlendar?  Is that way more than you need?

http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php?option=com_rny_gallery&Itemid=41

Well, can't seem to make that link hot...sorry.  Just copy paste

Yea, Rainlendar is probably overkill.