Fancy Forms Made Easy
HTML forms are central elements of nearly every web application. AppJet.jar supports HTML forms with its QuickForms library, which makes it easy to create even complex forms. It has some limits though and uses just the built-in browser control elements. Most UI JavaScript libraries shine through the use of skinning effects which provide a modern and consistent look and feel.
Pixelmatrix Design's Josh Pyles has written a cool forms skinning library based on jQuery. Uniform currently provides 3 great looking skins, among them the Aristo theme from 280North, which is also used by the Cappuccino framework. You can even design your own themes using the theme kit and the theme generator.
We have combined the QuickForms and Uniform libraries, added missing theming for input fields and multi button support, both build on top of QuickForms. The resulting library is ready for use in your own applications. We will also adapt the platform code to make use of it.
See the lib-aristoforms library for its use and the source code.
