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August 28th, 2022

Project Title: Knob
Programming Language: JavaScript
Date Created: 2022-08-28

Purpose: To provide a behavior class for a knob user interface component.

Description: The knob is a user interface behavior class for providing a rotational alternative to a value slider. Knobs are commonly used in musically applications, and can occupy less space than a value slider.

The knob works by dragging the handle in the circular motion or by click-and-drag from the center of the knob along an x/y axis. The knob auto detects your axis of choice.

July 14th, 2017

Top and bottom bar menus (sticky headers/footers) are growing in popularity. Floating top and bottom menus can be found in websites and mobile applications everywhere.

In the above headline image we can see an example of a website using a top menu bar, and in the contents of the webpage is a mobile application with three top menu bars.

Project Smart (JS_Smart) the no programming JavaScript software suite will have bars. Bars is a full featured software solution for assigning top and bottom bars to your website or application. Bars can dynamically snap bars into place based on content area. Bars supports three top and bottom layers, and an administrative exemption for content management systems such as WordPress. Bars also has a pin layer, with pin you can have any number of objects to be pinned to the top or bottom of the bars.

May 20th, 2016

JavaScript Smart (JS_Smart or Smart) is a smart JavaScript library focused on providing basic and intelligent web design functionalities to designers and content creators. Smart is an attribute based system allowing website designers and content creators to focus on their work and not on programming. With Smart, one just has to add an attribute to existing element tags to add the desired behaviors they want.

Designers and content creators don’t have time to develop reliable, robust, and flexible code for their design elements. Smart requires no programming. Simply add the Smart attribute you desire to an element and Smart does the work for you.

December 3rd, 2014

Script Title: randomChar
Programming Language: Java Script
Date Completed: 2013/09/21

Purpose: Returns a random character.