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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

Doing logic in templates


I personally would not be so thrilled if all that GXT templates offer red was basic string interpolation. Luckily, we can also benefit from some level of conditional processing in the XTemplate class making it possible to vary the rendering or formatting of the intended data depending on the state of things in the data itself.

A simple example of this would be to only show data for customers over a certain age; we can also modify this to use a different formatting style for customers of the requisite age.

How to do it...

Instantiate an XTemplate object with a string representing the desired HTML formatting, and in it use the if keyword enclosed in a <tpl> tag to express the condition which will likely need to be escaped with slashes and HTML entities.

private String getTemplate(boolean all){
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
if(!all){
sb.append("<tpl if=\"age &gt; 30\">");
}else{
sb.append("<tpl>");
}
sb.append("<p>Age: {age}<...