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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 treevirtual widget


The treevirtual widget allows you to create a virtual tree that looks like a tree and provides the table features to store the data in columns, dynamically filling the tree with contents.

Class hierarchy

All the virtual tree-related classes are under the package qx.ui.treevirtual. The following screenshot displays the class hierarchy of the classes under the treevirtual widget:

The TreeVirtual class also provides most of the implementations for the events such as treeClose, treeOpenWhileEmpty, treeOpenWithContent, and so on, and most of the methods to access data in terms of the tree are added into the class by adding mixins such as qx.ui.treevirtual.MNode and qx.ui.treevirtual.MFamily.

This widget is very useful when the user is displaying hierarchical data to show in columns, for example, to show the filesystem tree. If the user is interested in showing the file permissions and last updated time for the files, then each row needs two more columns. To have a clear...