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ExtGWT Rich Internet Application Cookbook

By : Odili Charles Opute , Oded Nissan
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ExtGWT Rich Internet Application Cookbook

By: Odili Charles Opute , Oded Nissan

Overview of this book

<p>Get ready to build the next generation Gmail, Facebook, or Meebo, with HTML5 and Server Push, taking advantage of the power and versatility of Java with ExtGWT. Sencha Ext GWT takes GWT to the next level, giving you high-performance widgets, feature-rich templates and layouts, advanced charting, data loaders and stores,&nbsp; accessibility, and much more.<br /><br /><i>ExtGWT Rich Internet Application Cookbook will teach you to quickly build&nbsp; stunning functionality into your own apps with ExtGWT</i>.<br /><br />This is a catalog of practical solutions to get your ExtGWT web app up and running in no time, with tips for persistence and best practices. You begin by playing with panels, windows, and tabs, to learn the essentials. Next, you engage yourself with forms, buttons, toolbars and menus to build on further. Dealing with the UI and the trees will follow to help you make stunning user interfaces. Then you will be taught to work with Listview, Views, and Gridpanels, the more complex problems. The book will then deal with charts, visualization, and drag and drop to take you to the next level. Finally, you will wind up with serialization, persistence, and custom theming. Now, you are an expert!</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
ExtGWT Rich Internet Application Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Event Handling — Making Those GUIs Do Something
Jakarta Commons-FileUpload

Creating buttons with text and icons


Buttons are often simple widgets that allow the user to execute an action by clicking on it, such as submitting an HTML form with its Submit button. However, we can do more with buttons nowadays beyond form submission; we can even give them a complete makeover with the various text, icon, and alignment options available with a GXT button.

How to do it...

A GXT button is a very simple widget; without all the bells and whistles it is a one-liner.

ButtonBar btnBar = new ButtonBar();
Icons ICONS = GWT.create(Icons.class);
// Text button
Button textBtn = new Button("Btn Text");
textBtn.setToolTip("This is a simple text button");
btnBar.add(textBtn);
// Icon button
Button iconBtn = new Button();
iconBtn.setIcon(ICONS.people());
btnBar.add(iconBtn);
// Text and Icon button
Button mixedBtn = new Button("Mixed Btn", ICONS.orgchart());
btnBar.add(mixedBtn);
// Real world button
SelectionListener<ButtonEvent> listener = new SelectionListener<ButtonEvent...