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Learning DHTMLX Suite UI

By : Eli Geske
Book Image

Learning DHTMLX Suite UI

By: Eli Geske

Overview of this book

JavaScript applications provide an excellent user experience for small to large scale enterprise applications. The amazing growth of JavaScript has opened the door for many great libraries such as DHTMLX. "Learning DHTMLX Suite UI" will teach you how to use these libraries effectively so you can make presentations that will take your employer's/ client's breath away! "Learning DHTMLX Suite UI" is a step-by-step guide that will teach you the basics of DHTMLX library components and how to apply them in a real-world scenario. This book will start with the installation of DHTMLX before moving on to explore the features of DHTMLX and helping you to create your first user management application. "Learning DHTMLX Suite UI" will guide you through the installation of DHTMLX as a single-page application. As you progress from one chapter to the next, you will gradually build a simple user management application. You will also learn how to create forums with validation and how to use grids to add and edit users. The book will also suggest the best practices for using toolbars and refreshing data. With "Learning DHTMLX Suite UI Guide", you will be inspired to come up with your own great ideas for your future application development projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning DHTMLX Suite UI
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The methods and events


We will begin by creating a new instance of the base dhtmlXWindows object. Refresh the browser to clear any console code from previous exercises.

Initialization

Initializations of DHTMLX's components are either done through an existing component, such as the layout component, or initialized to a DOM element. This is different with the window component. The base object must be created first. From this base object, a set of new windows can be created.

The settings for initialization in the other discussed components have always been added in a functional manner. DHTMLX also provides the optional object literal way of applying settings to initialization for most of their components. For the first exercise we will create multiple windows with the settings as an object literal.

Creating the base object

In the console we will create a new dhtmlXWindows object with a settings object. This settings object will set the path to the images folder and allow the creation of multiple...