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Learning Ext JS 3.2

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

Learning Ext JS 3.2

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

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. Yet, most web developers fail to use this amazing library to its full power.</p> <p>This book covers all of the major features of the Ext framework using interactive code and clear explanation coupled with loads of screenshots. 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.</p> <p>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 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. You will also learn how to use all of the Ext JS widgets and components smartly, through interactive examples.By using a series of straightforward examples backed by screenshots, Learning Ext JS 3.2 will help you create web applications that look good and perform beyond the expectations of your users.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Learning Ext JS 3.2
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Elemental


As we've seen, the Ext.Element is the key to using Ext.Fx. It's important that, when rolling your own custom versions of Ext JS, you make sure that you include Ext.Fx if you want to be able to use its methods for Ext.Element. However, even when used standalone, Ext.Element has a number of methods all of its own that can provide some interesting possibilities for animation.

Making a move

There are many methods on Ext.Element that can be used to manipulate a target element, but some of them have a free extra. Pass in a true value as the last parameter, and the manipulation will be animated.

Ext.get('target').moveTo(300, 500, true);

In this case, the target element will move to a location 300 pixels from the left and 500 from the top of the viewport. But, because of this last parameter, it will not simply jump to that location, but will smoothly transition to the specified point.

In addition to simply passing in true as the third parameter, we can pass in a full configuration object...