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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

Building a bar of tools


Ok it's actually a toolbar of tools or better still components, not like a chocolate bar or candy bar of tools which would not be so tasty after all. So how do you build a toolbar of components (mainly buttons anyway), with sections delimited by separators and the likes, common with real toolbars. Well, ToolBar is basically a container to place components in some sort of order and layout, so that there's one place the user can access actions to be performed on the content being viewed.

How to do it...

Create a ToolBar widget, create some buttons, and add the buttons to the toolbar. The toolbar component can then be added to a ContentPanel.

ToolBar tBar = new ToolBar();
Icons ICONS = GWT.create(Icons.class);
// Add the buttons
Button homeBtn = new Button("Home", ICONS.home());
tBar.add(homeBtn);
tBar.add(new SeparatorToolItem());
Button clientsBtn = new Button("Clients", ICONS.people());
tBar.add(clientsBtn);
tBar.add(new FillToolItem());
Button reportsBtn = new Button...