I am making a calendar app, how can I get each event to show up in different sizes depending on the length of the event?

So every calendar app out there that we have all ever used lets you add events to your schedule, and then you see a color rectangle that shows up with the event title, and it is sized depending on its length. So if an event runs from 1:00-1:45, the rectangle only takes up 开发者_如何学C3/4 of the hour slot.

Using EventKit, and EventKitUI, I have realized that making the events is going to be quite easy, now I am wondering about the next step, which is graphically making my events visible to the user.

I plan on just using a simple UITableView for my day view, so when I add an event, how could I go about representing that graphically? I am looking for some ideas on implementation here. I don't know how I could do this. Would it be a matter of making a custom label and adding it to the top of the selected cell?

I am realizing that programming is partly a problem of knowing how to do something, and the other is knowing what to do. At this point, I am struggling with the what to do part, because I think that if I had a direction, I could do it in code no problem.

Any ideas?

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Check this out.

https://github.com/klazuka/Kal

I played with the sample code and threw a watch on it on gitHub because I liked what he did. Does some calendar functions, maybe it can help you get some ideas flowing.