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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 - adding widgets into Team Twitter


As we have learnt the basic and form widgets, let's update the Team Twitter widgets to add the basic or form widgets in the layout that we created in the previous chapters.

  1. 1. Let's create the necessary widgets for the TweetSearchWidget. Let's code the initLayout method to create and add the widgets into the layout, the required widgets for searching, and the links for user login and user signup forms. This will enhance the TweetSearchWidget.js class under C:\teamtwitter\source\class\teamtwitter\ui.

    First, create the widgets as per the following screen requirement and update the class. Even if you cannot get it right, try it by yourself first without seeing the code mentioned in the code files. By doing so, you'll apply the concepts that you learnt in the earlier sections. Feel free to refer to the earlier sections when you need any help on the concepts:

    • Once you update the code, you can build the client application, generate a web application...