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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

Chapter 4. Working with Layouts and Menus

This chapter focuses on the layout designs of graphical user interfaces, menu bars, and toolbars. Basically, you will learn about available layouts in qooxdoo and learn to choose the layout for the purpose of the screen. qooxdoo provides different layouts (flow, dock, grid, and so on) for different purposes, containers and menus (menu bar, toolbar, context menu, and so on).

In the last chapter, we learnt the core programming concepts, coding syntax, and object-oriented features of the qooxdoo framework. This chapter teaches you to lay out the screens for effective use of space, based on component placement, to design a layout that looks better on the addition or removal of components to the screen and resizing the screen, and so on. qooxdoo has a rich and convenient set of user interface components and also provides different layouts to place the GUI components on the screen.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Widgets

  • Containers

  • Panels...