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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

Special widgets


Other than the basic and form widgets, the qooxdoo framework provides the most useful widgets and controls in order to develop applications with good functionality in lesser time. Framework reduces or saves the developer's time by avoiding the creation of controls such as date chooser, color picker, and so on, and simplifies the code. This allows the developers to concentrate more on the business logic than on creating the custom widgets.

Let's have a look at some of the special widgets supported in the qooxdoo framework. Some of the special widgets are popup, tooltip, and control.

The popup widgets

The popup widgets are displayed over the application page and are rendered above the existing content. The best examples for the popup widgets are Menu, ComboBox, SelectBox, and tooltip.

Basically, popup is a composite container with the configurable layout. You can add multiple widgets into the popup widget and the pop-up is displayed over the existing content. The pop-up is...