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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

Form fields in a toolbar

Like most things in Ext, a tool bar can accept just about any Ext component. Naturally, form fields and combo boxes are very useful items to have on a toolbar.

{
xtype: 'textfield'
}

In the same way as we created form fields in the last chapter, we have added the form fields to the items array, which will place the form fields within the toolbar. Now let's make the form field do something useful, by having it perform the same functionality as our help menu, but in a more dynamic way.

{
xtype: 'textfield',
listeners: {
specialkey: Movies.doSearch
}
}

This listener is added directly to the form field's config. For this, we are using a specialkey listener, which we used in the previous chapter. This is the listener that is used to capture edit keystrokes, such as Enter and Delete among others. The handler function will be added to our small Movies class created earlier:

doSearch : function(frm,evt){
if (evt.getKey() == evt.ENTER) {
Movies...