Welcome to Rico!

Rico is an open source JavaScript framework used to create rich, highly interactive web applications. Rico is based on the Prototype Javascript Framework and is released under the Apache License.

It includes functions to support:

• drag-and-drop
• rounded HTML elements
• animation effects
• accordion and tabbed panels
• calendar, color-picker, and tree controls
• number and date formatting
• pop-up "windows" (div's) and menus with shadows
• scrolling grids with frozen columns and headings that can be populated with static content or dynamically loaded via AJAX, plus support for editing grid content
• multiple languages for the grid menus and calendar - translations into French, German, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Ukranian are included

The Rico distribution is divided into 3 subdirectories:

• src - contains the Rico core, including javascript, css, and image files.
• plugins - contains code that runs on the server to support LiveGrids and SimpleGrids. Plug-ins are currently provided for ASP, PHP, and .net. A Perl plug-in with limited functionality is also included.
• examples - contains sample code for ASP, PHP, .net, Perl, and HTML. The examples/data directory contains sample databases for the examples pertaining to LiveGrid. Databases are provided for MS Access, Oracle, and MySQL. Instructions for installing the data onto SQL Server are also included.