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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)
15
Index

Widgets everywhere

Earlier, I mentioned that any type of panel widget could be added directly to a layout, just as we had done with the tabs. Let's explore this by adding another widget to our layout—the grid.

Adding a grid into the tabpanel

As we now have these tabs as part of our layout, let's start by adding a grid panel to one of the tabs. Adding the xtype config option to the grid config code you created in Chapter 5, will produce a grid that fills one entire tab:

{
region: 'center',
xtype: 'tabpanel',
activeTab: 0,
items: [{
title: 'Movie Grid',
xtype: 'gridpanel',
store: store,
autoExpandColumn: 'title',
columns: // add column model //,
view: // add grid view spec //
},{
title: 'Movie Descriptions',
html: 'Movie Info'
}]
}

Note

xtypes offer a quick way to instantiate a new component with minimal typing. This is sometimes referred to as 'lazy rendering' because the components sit around...