Widgets

Writing less code and creating better apps is the ultimate goal for any company, building software and digital product. The fact is that many software companies are not approaching applications design, thinking in a scalable way. Using off-the-shelf components for web projects can help teams to avoid double-work and create sustainable technical architecture, saving time and costs.

Today we look at creating a Bootstrap Dashboard application. This layout is increasingly popular lately. It provides both a wealth of data for the user to consider and a responsive layout, which covers a wide variety of devices.

For the sample used in this blog, I have used the ShieldUI web development framework, which offers all of the widgets utilized.
The complete sample is available for download here.

Our development team recently added a new and highly anticipated feature to our jQuery Grid component - editing. This enhancement impacts both the Grid and the Data-source components, which both received major updates, to facilitate the functionality.

The jQuery window control is the latest addition to our component Suite, which has now grown significantly. The control allows showing predefined or dynamic text and content in a windowed container. This improves content separation on the page and allows additional styled prompts.

In this blog entry, we take a look at the ShieldUI jQuery Autocomplete widget. We will review some of its most important features and supply some examples of usage.

At first glance, the widget looks like this:

In the next paragraphs, we will look at some of the most important properties of the widget.

This article describes how to use ShieldUI's NumericTextBox jQuery widget for limiting the user input in a field to a number. With no previous experience required, one can easily replace an existing HTML input control with the NumericTextBox and implement the input constraints in no time. Having to do that manually is a tedious task that requires a great deal of JavaScript programming, so it is always a good idea to look for handy widgets like this one and use its functionality out of the box.

The latest release of ShieldUI widgets included the Calendar control. This was a component, requested by many of our customers, and it was not long before our data visualization team started working on it. We set out to build the component with three main goals in mind - performance, flexibility and consistent API. Below you can find an outline of the main characteristics of the component, and see how it meets the requirements of your project.

ShieldUI recently announced the addition of a new set of tools to its Web Development Suite. The company rolled out a set of twelve new controls, which aim to boost the component offering and complement the flagship of the suite – the chart and grid controls.

Native HTML elements used in web pages do not always provide the experience intended by developers and needed by the end-users. This article describes how Shield UI JavaScript widgets can be used to solve common and not-so-common UI problems of the modern web development world.