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Learning Ext JS

By : Colin Ramsay, Shea Frederick, Steve 'Cutter' Blades
Book Image

Learning Ext JS

By: Colin Ramsay, Shea Frederick, Steve 'Cutter' Blades

Overview of this book

<p>As more and more of our work is done through a web browser, and more businesses build web rather than desktop applications, users want web applications that look and feel like desktop applications. Ext JS is a JavaScript library that makes it (relatively) easy to create desktop-style user interfaces in a web application, including multiple windows, toolbars, drop-down menus, dialog boxes, and much more. Both Commercial and Open Source licenses are available for Ext JS.<br /><br />Ext JS has the unique advantage of being the only client-side UI library that also works as an application development library. Learning Ext JS will help you create rich, dynamic, and AJAX-enabled web applications that look good and perform beyond the expectations of your users.<br /><br />From the building blocks of the application layout, to complex dynamic Grids and Forms, this book will guide you through the basics of using Ext JS, giving you the knowledge required to create rich user experiences beyond typical web interfaces. It will also provide you with the tools you need to use AJAX, by consuming server-side data directly into the many interfaces of the Ext JS component library.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Radio buttons and check boxes

Radio buttons and check boxes are a necessary evil. They are clumsy, and hard to work with. I try to use them only as a last resort, when nothing else will do the job. But let's add them to our form just so we can say that we did.

It's not a button, it's a radio button

Lets first add a set of radio buttons to our form:

{
xtype: 'radio',
fieldLabel: 'Filmed In',
name: 'filmed_in',
boxLabel: 'Color'
},{
xtype: 'radio',
hideLabel: false,
labelSeparator: '',
name: 'filmed_in',
boxLabel: 'Black & White'
}

These radio buttons work much like their HTML counterparts. Give them all the same name, and they will work together for you. I also like to hide the labels for the trailing radio buttons by setting hideLabel to true and labelSeperator to an empty value. This gives the form a cleaner look.

X marks the check box

Sometimes, we need to use check boxes for boolean values...