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Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide

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Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Vaadin is a mature, open-source, and powerful Java framework used to build modern web applications in plain Java. Vaadin brings back the fun of programming UI interfaces to the web universe. No HTML, no CSS, no JavaScript, no XML. Vaadin lets you implement web user interfaces using an object oriented model, similar to desktop technologies such as Swing and AWT. Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide is an engaging guide that will teach you how to develop web applications in minutes. With this book, you will Develop useful applications and learn basics of Java web development. By the end of the book you will be able to build Java web applications that look fantastic. The book begins with simple examples using the most common Vaadin UI components and quickly move towards more complex applications as components are introduced chapter-by-chapter. Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide shows you how to use Eclipse, Netbeans, and Maven to create Vaadin projects. It then demonstrates how to use labels, text fields, buttons, and other input components. Once you get a grasp of the basic usage of Vaadin, the book explains Vaadin theory to prepare you for the rest of the trip that will enhance your knowledge of Vaadin UI components and customization techniques.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – adding icons


Follow these steps and see how icons beautify applications:

  1. Create a new Vaadin project. We are using icons as project name.

  2. Add some class level fields for the input components in your UI class:

    public class IconsUI extends UI {
    
      private TextField tf = new TextField("Email");
      private ComboBox cb = new ComboBox("Type");
      private TextArea ta = new TextArea("Details");
      private OptionGroup og = new OptionGroup("Priority");
      private Button bt = new Button("Send");
    
      // ...
    
    }
  3. We don't want to go out of shape with our Vaadin skills right? Add all the input components using your knowledge to a layout like this:

    If you don't want to do this, you have two options: Copying the code from the book's source code, or adding all the components to a simple vertical layout.

  4. Add the highlighted lines of code to the end of the init method:

    public class IconsUI extends UI {
    
      // ...
    
      protected void init(VaadinRequest request) {
        tf.setIcon(new ClassResource("email.png...