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Learning Ext JS

By : Colin Ramsay, Shea Frederick, Steve 'Cutter' Blades
Book Image

Learning Ext JS

By: Colin Ramsay, Shea Frederick, Steve 'Cutter' Blades

Overview of this book

<p>As more and more of our work is done through a web browser, and more businesses build web rather than desktop applications, users want web applications that look and feel like desktop applications. Ext JS is a JavaScript library that makes it (relatively) easy to create desktop-style user interfaces in a web application, including multiple windows, toolbars, drop-down menus, dialog boxes, and much more. Both Commercial and Open Source licenses are available for Ext JS.<br /><br />Ext JS has the unique advantage of being the only client-side UI library that also works as an application development library. Learning Ext JS will help you create rich, dynamic, and AJAX-enabled web applications that look good and perform beyond the expectations of your users.<br /><br />From the building blocks of the application layout, to complex dynamic Grids and Forms, this book will guide you through the basics of using Ext JS, giving you the knowledge required to create rich user experiences beyond typical web interfaces. It will also provide you with the tools you need to use AJAX, by consuming server-side data directly into the many interfaces of the Ext JS component library.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

It's all in the details

We've had a good overview of the main classes within the Ext.dd package now. So it's time to start looking at some of the interesting configuration options, properties, methods, and events that allow us to tweak the behavior of the drag-and-drop classes.

Configuration

The "big four" of Ext.dd—DragSource, DragZone, DropTarget, and DropZone—are notable within the Ext JS framework for being important classes that don't really offer much in the way of configuration options. That's because, despite being important, they're all relatively simple to set up: designate a linked node and away you go. That said, we've already covered one option that all of these classes support—ddGroup—and there are a couple more common options available.

The dropAllowed and dropNotAllowed options are both strings that dictate the CSS classes to be passed to the drag source when the respective conditions are true. For example...