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qooxdoo Beginner's Guide

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qooxdoo Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Over the past few years, all the major internet or enterprise applications are developed or migrated to Rich Internet Application to support all the features that are provided in the desktop applications. This helps organizations keep the end users happy and also improves application deployment and maintenance. qooxdoo is a stable, open source RIA framework. If you are waiting and watching for the right time to migrate your application to qooxdoo, this is the right time!This book explains in detail about the rich user interface development in qooxdoo. It explains various concepts of qooxdoo framework in an easy to grasp and organized way, making it simple even for a novice in qooxdoo and also increases the competency level of the developer who is already working in qooxdoo.This book helps developers understand the qooxdoo framework, setup the environment, and start the development of RIA using qooxdoo. You will learn the core programming techniques in qooxdoo, user interface development in qooxdoo, testing & debugging qooxdoo applications, internationalization of qooxdoo applications to multiple languages, customizing the look and feel of qooxdoo applications using Themes, Performance management, etc.In the course of the book, we develop a complete application which will help the developer to understand the concepts better and to put things together to see the step-by-step progress to complete an application. By the end, this book will get the developer accustomed to the widgets and API available in the qooxdoo framework, and will enable him to design, develop, debug, and test the RIA in qooxdoo.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
qooxdoo
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References

Time for action - writing classes for Team Twitter


Now that we have learnt the basics of object-oriented concepts of the qooxdoo framework, let's write a few classes for our Team Twitter application.

  1. 1. To start building our Team Twitter application, let's first identify the widgets that we need to develop. Let's start our coding with the following items for our Team Twitter application:

    • UserLoginForm (creates the UI for the login form)

    • SignUpForm (creates the UI for the signup form)

    • Tweet widget or form

  2. 2. Let's decide how these forms should finally look. This section shows the screenshots of the forms that we need to develop. We will write the classes in step 3 to develop the Login form, the Sign Up Form, and the tweet widget or form.

  3. 3. We had a look at a few screenshots for our Team Twitter application. Now, let's write a few interfaces and classes to develop these screens.

    As we are developing the initial classes only for now, we will be learning more about the reusable components and...