Input Components Suite 2.0 for ASP .NET, Java/J2EE, PHP, Rails and Cold Fusion was announced recently by Wiseblocks. The new version .0 introduces a new series of components and improved functionalities that offer the possibility to easily implement the important data-entry field formats and controls available today.

    You can improve the quality of the fill-in forms on your web sites. The usual forms found on the most of web sites are often very simplistic and lack formatting within the data entry fields. With Input Components Suite you can easily integrate intelligent pre-formatted fields into your forms to create highly professional and user-friendly graphical interfaces.

    There are a few new components to improve your fill-in forms. For example, ICCalendar is the latest graphical assistant to be added to the Input Components Suite. Graphical assistants are good to facilitate information entry for the user filling in the form. ICCalendar is and Ajax component whose graphical appearance can be modified using the style sheet or one of the several displays available. This component can be easily associated to any data-entry field in a matter of seconds.

Another example is the ICDateTimeMask -- This element provides controls and formatting for a date and time data-entry field. ICDateTimeMask associates the controls of the existing ICTextMask and ICNumericMask. It offers the possibilityto enhance your html form with interactive fields. Input Components Suite V2.0 gives you the choice of either defining your own format for each field or selecting a pre-defined format from the Wiseblocks library.

For the third example we can take ICSpinner. It is now possible connect the ICSpinner graphical assistant to date and time fields. This offers the user the possibility to modify the field values with the scroll wheel, the + & - keys or with the graphical assistant buttons.

In addition we can change the appearance of the graphical assistant icons. For example the skinnable graphical helpers -- Version 2.0 offers the choice to change the icons representing the graphical assistants. You can either decide from the themes offered in the Wiseblocks library or use your own images (provided that they respect the graphical charter of your applications).

    All versions of Wiseblocks are free for developers and testers. Trials require a license key and can be easily deployed on any development, test or production machine for a 30-day trial period. Two editions of Input Components Suite are available for purchase: the standard edition for 2 domain names at $99 and the Enterprise edition for unlimited domain names at $9. For more information visit http://www.wiseblocks.com.