From kde-core-devel  Wed Oct 29 13:28:05 2008
From: Allen Winter <winter () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:28:05 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KCalendarSystemChinese - calendar for Chinese in KDE 4
Message-Id: <200810290928.06262.winter () kde ! org>
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On Thursday 20 December 2007 8:01:29 am Liang Qi wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> There is no code for Chinese calendar, which is mostly used by people
> in or from East Asia, China, Korean, Japan and so on.
> 

I was just reminded about this from a discussion we are having about
a new calendar system for Hindu holidays.

So... whatever happened to this code?
Are all the issues from the original discussion fixed?

I see that John Layt has this as a TODO item on the 4.2 Feature Plan,
so we could conceivably have this included with KDE 4.2 .


> I just based on the code of ccal and create KCalendarSystemChinese.
> And I read some docs on line:
> http://thunder.cwru.edu/ccal/index.html
> http://thunder.cwru.edu/ccal/rule.htm (in Chinese)
> http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/chinese.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar
> 
> My code is in:
> http://code.google.com/p/kcalendar/
> http://kcalendar.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
> 
> cp kde4/kcalendarsystemchinese.h kde/src/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/date
> cp kde4/kcalendarsystemchinese.cpp kde/src/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/date
> cp kde4/kcalendarsystem.cpp kde/src/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/date
> 
> cp kde4/CMakeList.txt kde/src/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore
> 
> And then build your kdelibs.
> 
> You can try two examples in example/test, example/guitest.
> 
> Some known issue or problem which you can help me:
> 1. for virtual bool setDate( QDate &date, int year, int month, int day
> ), what's it for? what's the difference between it with setYMD? Is it
> my understanding(in my current code) right or not?
> 
> 2. for epoch(), what's it?
> 
> 3. in my example/test, if I call weekStartDay(), it will crash, do you
> have any hints?
> 
> 4. Just because ccal has its own calculation function, a little slow,
> especially when using it with KDatePicker, then I choose to like ccal,
> embed a data table for 1950-2050 in it, now speed is ok. Maybe some
> one can optimize the code of ccal, or just for my case.
> 
> Regards,
> Liang
> 
>