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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

RowLayout vertical and horizontal aligning


RowLayout renders a container's components in a single vertical or horizontal row. It is very flexible and allows configurable options for height, width, and margins for each child component.

RowLayout supports both pixel and percentage based measurement values using a RowData (LayoutData) object. A value from 0 to 1 (inclusive) is treated as a percentage while values greater than 1 are treated as pixels. However, the size of a component will be determined from the component itself (computed size) if given a RowData value of -1, for either the height or the width (but not both), thus allowing the component to decide its size and not the layout.

How to do it...

We simply set RowLayout as the layout for a container and then add child components to the container, providing a RowData object during the add operation. RowData will eventually determine how the components are rendered and sized in rows.

// create a ContentPanel with RowLayout
ContentPanel...