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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

Using a pie chart


A pie chart is a visualization with colored arcs or sectors called slices, within a circle, each representing the value of a distinct fragment of the data as a percentage that is reflected by its size relative to that of other sectors. Most pie chart implementations have labeled slices that are animated during mouse gestures on them. However, a good label and appropriate colors for each slice usually suffice.

How to do it...

Create a Chart instance, a ChartModel, and then a PieChart object, set the model on the chart with chart.setChartModel() and then place the chart on the screen with a LayoutContainer. When the data is ready, use pieChart.addSlice() to add the slices to the chart, afterwards invoke addChartConfig() on ChartModel to pass in the PieChart to it and then refresh the screen if needs be.

@Override
public void onModuleLoad() {
Chart chart = new Chart("resources/chart/open-flash-chart.swf");
final ChartModel model = new ChartModel("Customer Purchases");
final...