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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

The table widget


The table widget allows you to display the records in rows and columns. Each row is a record and all the columns in a row are the properties of that record. For example, you can display the list of employee records in a table. qooxdoo provides many classes to provide functionalities such as store the table data, render the cell, edit the cell, and so on.

All the table-related classes are under the package qx.ui.table. The class hierarchy of the table classes is as follows:

Class hierarchy

The qx.ui.table.Table class is the table widget class. By default, all the cells are rendered as text initially when the table is displayed, and on double-clicking a cell, the cell value goes into edit mode if it is allowed to edit, and the default cell editor is the TextField widget. The qx.ui.table.cellrenderer package provides various renderers for the cell and the default cell renderer is qx.ui.table.cellrenderer.Default. Only if you want to change the default cell renderer to a custom...