UiBot - Google Apps Script User Interface Library

I've been playing around with Google Apps Script lately, and I thought I'd share a small class I wrote to make building user interfaces with the UI Service a little more pleasant. With this library, you can specify an interface through a simple declarative JSON syntax, rather then a lot of chained function calls (or the GUI builder). It also includes some helpers to reduce the amount of code needed to build forms.

While you can also create a UI with Google's recently released Html Service, the UI Service has the nice properties of sharing a common design with Google Docs and working smoothly across all of the browsers Docs supports. UiBot works with all of the ui elements supported by the UI Service.

Details and a brief tutorial are at:
https://github.com/gotdan/UiBot#overview

Here's a snippet of UiBot code:

	var form = {
	wType: 'HorizontalForm',
	items: [{
	fieldLabel : 'Name:',
	wType : 'TextBox',
	name : 'userName'
	},{
	fieldLabel : 'Age:',
	wType : 'TextBox',
	name : 'age'
	},{
	fieldLabel : 'Period:',
	wType : 'ListBox',
	name : 'periodList',
	data : ["Day", "Month","Quarter", "Year"],
	selected : "Month"
	}]
	};
	var bot = new UiBot.UiBot({
	title: 'Test App!',
	items: [ form ]
	});

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