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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

Buttons and form action

Now, we have quite a mess of a form with only one problem it doesn't send data to the server, which was the actual point behind creating our form in the first place. To do, this we are going to add some buttons.

Our buttons are added to a buttons config object, similar to the way that the form fields were added. These buttons really only need two things: the text to be displayed on the button, and the function(which is called the handler) to execute when the button is clicked.

buttons: [{
text: 'Save',
handler: function(){
movie_form.getForm().submit({
success: function(f,a){
Ext.Msg.alert('Success', 'It worked');
},
failure: function(f,a){
Ext.Msg.alert('Warning', 'Error');
}
});
}
}, {
text: 'Reset',
handler: function(){
movie_form.getForm().reset();
}
}]

The handler is provided with a function—or a reference to a function—that will be executed once the button is clicked. In this case...