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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

Menu, MenuBar, and ToolBar


A menu allows users to perform an action from the list of actions available in an application. It saves the space by displaying the list in pop-up or pull-down kind of widgets. A menu usually appears in a menu bar, toolbar, or as a context menu. qooxdoo provides two more components to display a menu directly in a form. Those components are MenuButton and SplitButton. When a user chooses or clicks on a menu item, the appropriate event fires and the menu item disappears. Pull-down menus or pop-up menus save space as they display menu items and sub menus over the widgets.

All menu-related classes are shown in the following screenshot:

Let's explore the classes used for creating Menu, Menubar, and Toolbar.

Menu

A menu can be constructed with one or more different menu items, such as, Button, CheckBox, RadioButton, and Separator. All these items are given under the qx.ui.menu namespace and are listed as follows:

  • Button is used to perform an action; mostly, it will...