Well this isn’t the first library to do this and it won’t be the last. Its not even 100% ready for release but I thought it will be great to get some initial feedback before even releasing any code.

This library (as mentioned in my last post) is heavily motivated and inspired by Flot (a jQuery based plotting library). Its not complete yet and its not that stable yet. So you might see few odd things happening here and there.

You can check out some tests here.

As always, please do give your comments and suggestions but do note that this is just something that I have been working on in my spare time so my replies might be a bit slow and your requested feature might not show up in the code fast enough. But it will be noted and implemented sooner or later.

Lately I have been working on a User Interface library that runs on top of Prototype and Scriptaculous framework. Please note that this library is in very early stage and I am planning on releasing the source code soon. Still have a lot of issues to fix and address but I wanted to float the idea in public and get wheels rolling.

So what does this UI library have?

This library will have the following components:

• Layout
• Splitter
• Panel
• Button
• Menu
• Tab
• Tree
• and more…

These will be the foundation layer components. With support of Prototype based class inheritance I have also been working on some widgets such as:

• CheckBoxTree
• AjaxTree
• AjaxPanel
• ButtonMenu
• ContextMenu
• Toolbar
• Accordion
• and more…

As mentioned earlier I am still working towards first public preview release but if you have any suggestions or comments please feel free to post them here. I should have a first public preview ready for you soon (can’t promise dates yet)

This library is in no-way meant to compete against ExtJS or Dojo or other such libraries but I believe that with community support we can bring an amazing UI layer to Prototype and Scriptaculous framework.

The main focus is to provide solid foundation layer and believe that our community will build and contribute amazing set of Widgets.

Here are screenshots for Button and Splitter (using Firefox 2.0)

Well it doesn’t get any better than this. I have been over whelmed by the response that community has given to ProtoFlow. While I am still working to fix some issues with image positioning, Fabian and  Martin posted a add-on for keyboard and mouse wheel support. After integrating their code I had to release it to general public asap. Thank you guys for your contribution.

By default both keyboard and mouse wheel support is turned on. To turn keyboard support off you can set options: enableKeyboard to false and to disable the mouse wheel events just turn enableMouse to false. Notice how the mouse wheel effect only works when your mouse is over the ProtoFlow object.

The latest code should be up here.

I have released another small update to the script. It has now been tested in IE6 and IE7 along with Firefox 2.0 and Safari. I have also added docs to the project.

I think this script should be in stable condition now. If you stumble upon any bugs or have any suggestions please post them in your comments to this thread.

You can find the latest version for download here.

Workspace is our little project that has been under some development for past 1 year. We launched a little preview a while back and had a great response - over 2400 users gave us exceptional feedback.

What do you do with all this feedback? Well we listen to the feedback and we quickly realized that we need to do some major work. Therefore, today we are announcing that we will stop sending out further beta invites  to our users. The reason is simple. We want to work hard to get the new features and updates integrated as soon as possible.

So what should you expect in our next release?

• Better UI framework
• Completely new editor
• Better support for FTP and SFTP protocols
• Support for SVN (and CVS)

These are just few of the new things we are currently working on. At this point we are not publishing any release dates but we will make an announcement soon - very soon!