The JSuite includes a series of components for scheduling and calendaring tasks in Java. These include: CalendarJ A graphically rich stand alone calendar component that provides developers with an easy-to-use, intuitive user interface.  Features  "Today" button sets the date selection to today's date. This button can be shown as a custom image or represented by a circle (default). Images In Days.  Multi-lined text in day cells. Set font styles for text in day cells. Multiple Selection. Range Selection. Additional selection events. When selecting a range of dates, the CalendarJ automatically passes the start and end dates once an end-user releases a mouse drag. Using two Date Plus components, developers can easily create fields that communicate "start" and "end" dates in tandem.  Drop-down month & year selection.

• Customize the images for the drop-down buttons (replacing the default triangles).
• Disable the drop-down month and year.
• Drop-down year field can also be edited by keyboard entries (uses the standard edit text field).
• Limit the number of displayed items in the year drop-down list.
• One month, quarter, half-year and full-year views.
• Complete font selection with three-dimensional styles.
• International Language support.
• Enable the Right Mouse Button.
• Full Year 2000 (Y2K) Support.
• Various color, border and shadow styles.
• Set Sunday foreground color.
• Upper/Lower Limits On Dates.
• PreferredSize,- designed for containers that use a Layout manager. Once this property is set, the "getPreferredSize()" returns that value, rather than the "getSize()" or internally adjusted value.
• Enable/disable the auto-resize for the calendar.

DayViewJ (New Component!)

The DayViewJ is a complete Java solution for displaying and managing appointments.  The DayViewJ features a number of enhancements to allow end-user's full control over customizing appointments. 

Developers can use the built-in dialogs (or use their own) to allow end-users the ability to display custom text, colors and images for appointments as well as set alarms and reminders. 

The DayViewJ has also been designed to communicate with the new Calendar Plus. Clicking on day cells in the calendar automatically display the DayViewJ and provide all the appointments for that day.

Features include:

• Double-clicks on appointments create a custom Appointment Editor where end-users can edit the appointment name, time and reminder time as well as select both images and background colors.
• Select custom background colors for appointments.
• Set images for appointments.
• Appointments feature built-in alarms. Alarms use a built-in dialog to display when prompted, or developers can user their own dialog. The standard "snooze" on the alarm will dismiss the reminder for 5 minutes.
• End-users can move or change appointment lengths with mouse drags.
• Multiple appointments for the same time. The DayView automatically resizes appointments when moved and overlaps appointments.
• Set the hours and time increments to display in the DayView.
• Display spin buttons to scroll through days.
• The month and year feature drop-down displays to choose days.
• The DayView, like all ProtoView components, features full support for a wide variety of customization of colors, fonts and border styles. 

Calendar Plus (New Component!)

• Includes all the functionality of the standard calendar, but uses the DayView to display information in cells upon the end-user's double click events.
• Automatically synchronized (no coding by the developer is required for this feature).
• Appointment information, images and color properties for day cells are compiled from the stored date objects. End-users can edit the day, and the Calendar Plus automatically saves the information back to the Calendar Plus. 
• Distributed as a single JAR file that includes both calendar and DayView.

Date Edit & Date Edit Long

Display the current month or use it as an input field. This component features:

• International Language Support. 
• AutoCentury option allows component to automatically build (or restore) century. 
• Delta (increment/decrement) date values. 
• Set custom images for spinner buttons.
• Displaying of month or day first. 
• Show/hide year or century. 
• Show/hide leading zero. 
• Custom date separator. 
• Upper/lower date limits. 
• Null date support. 

The Date Edit Long can display full month and day names (anywhere from dow/m to mmmm/dd/yyyy/dow). Editing can be set to strict validation of every entry or to the free keyboard entry with validation on lost focus or by pressing the ENTER key. 

DatePlus and DatePlus Long

Allows developers to display a date input field with drop-down calendar. Choose from one, three, six or twelve month displays. Features include:

• Includes all the functionality of the Date Edit and Date Edit Long. 
• Absolute positioning of drop-down calendar.
• Close the drop-down calendar on single or double click.
• Choose to maintain calendar display until a date is selected.
• Deny opening of a drop-down calendar when the "Editable" property is set to false. 
• Set custom images for the drop-down button of the calendar.

The Date Plus Long includes all the functionality of the DatePlus component but with long date strings (example: Thursday, April 1, 1999). 

All JSuite components come with both JDK 1.02 Classes and JDK 1.1(1.2) JAR files and are available with Source Code.

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The JSuite has been featured in a number of features and reviews. Here is just some of what the press is saying about it:

"ProtoView's JSuite is an ideal present for people complaining about the
lack of quality third-party components for Java...the amount of properties
available for customization is impressive...while evaluating JSuite, I found
it to be an extremely well designed and stable component collection
that will significantly speed up user interface implementations."
- Java Pro, Review

"With ProtoView's release of JSuite, they have successfully raised the bar
on usable JavaBeans...They are rich in features and have a lot to offer
any Java developer."
- Java Developer's Journal, Review

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