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Mastering Ext JS

By : Loiane Groner
Book Image

Mastering Ext JS

By: Loiane Groner

Overview of this book

<p>Ext JS 4 is a JavaScript framework that provides you with the resources to build multi-browser, high-performance, and rich Internet applications.<br /><br />Mastering Ext JS is a practical, hands-on guide that will teach you how to develop a complete application with Ext JS. You’ll begin by learning how to create the project’s structure and login screen before mastering advanced level features such as dynamic menus and master-detail grids, before finally preparing the application for production.<br /><br />Mastering Ext JS will help you to utilize Ext JS to its full potential and will show you how to create a complete Ext JS application from the scratch, as well as explaining how to create a Wordpress theme.</p> <p><br />You will learn how to create user and group security, master-detail grids and forms, charts, trees, and how to export data to excel including PDF and images, always focusing on best practices.</p> <p><br />You will also learn how to customize themes and how to prepare the application to be ready for deployment upon completion. Each chapter of the book is focused on one task and helps you understand and master an individual aspect of the application.</p> <p><br />By the end of the book, you will have learned everything you need to know to truly master Ext JS and to start building advanced applications.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Ext JS
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Organizing e-mails – drag-and-drop


As on Outlook, we can select a message and drag-and-drop it onto another folder. We will also implement this functionality in our e-mail client module. But there is one important detail: first, we need to do a drag-and-drop between a Grid panel (list of e-mails) and a Tree panel (mail menu). And second, we do not want to move a record from the Grid panel to the Tree panel. We simply want to be able to drop an e-mail message into a node of the Tree Panel and not actually add it to the Tree panel as a new node (meaning it will be added to the tree store). So let's keep this in mind when we implement this functionality. This example is very good because it demonstrates that we can customize some actions of the drag-and-drop capability.

So first, we need to add the drag-and-drop capability to the Grid panel and the Tree panel.

In the Packt.view.mail.MailList class, inside the viewConfig method, we need to add the following code (before or after the getRowClass...