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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

Intuitive record filtering


A common use case with grids is the need for record filtering, allowing users to easily locate records that match the given filter while temporarily eliminating the others. Filtering a GXT grid is done with the use of GridFilter, a plugin that provides a more robust filtering than the implementation found in a GXT store.

GridFilter provides a programmatic and graphical interface, an event model, and adds a new menu to the header menu on a grid with which users can enable, disable, and configure the filter on a given column.

Using a GridFilter one can filter the records on a grid from a "price" column such that only records with price values between a range and having a specific value will show up.

How to do it...

Create a GridFilters object to house and manage the individual filters needed then invoke its setLocal() method with a Boolean indicating whether you desire local (within the grid store) or remote (from the server) filtering. Next, create the filter objects...