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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

Organizing navigation with AccordionLayout


Aptly named after the musical instrument, AccordionLayout is GXT's implementation of the popular accordion structures found in many UI toolkits. It is a FitLayout (child is expanded or sized to fit the dimension of its container) that is implemented to render child components (must be ContentPanel) as mutually exclusively collapsible sections whose headings are always visible.

You can expand and collapse a section with either the collapse tool (default) or by clicking on its heading if the collapse tool has been disabled.

An important point to note with AccordionLayout is that it only takes ContentPanel items and only one (defaults to the first) is viewable (expanded) at a given time.

How to do it...

All we really need to do is set AccordionLayout as the layout for a container and then add ContentPanel child items to the container, with each ContentPanel having an appropriate heading.

public HtmlContainer makeLinks(String[] links){
StringBuilder sb...