ExtGWT Rich Internet Application Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Playing with Panels and Windows
• Introduction
• Creating a basic window
• Building windows that can be maximized, resized, dragged, and made modal
• Creating dialog windows
• Pre-empt users with messages
• Building a window management system

• Chapter 2: Playing Hide and Seek with Tabs
• Introduction
• Building tabbed content with custom tab icons
• Creating bottom navigation tabs
• Creating a tab panel with scrollable tab strip
• Programmatically adding/removing a tab
• Tab notification
• Searching for, locating, and selecting a particular tab
• Showing a tab strip for only two or more tabs

• Chapter 3: Click-ware: Buttons, Toolbars, and Menus
• Introduction
• Creating buttons with text and icons
• Aligning buttons
• Creating on/off toggle buttons
• Organizing actions with the menu and split buttons
• Building a bar of tools
• Crafting multi-column buttons in ToolBar
• Binding a single action to several click-wares

• Chapter 4: Crafting UI Real Estate
• Introduction
• Organizing navigation with AccordionLayout
• Snapping components even when resized
• UI cardinality with BorderLayout
• Building a basic wizard with CardLayout
• RowLayout vertical and horizontal aligning
• Building grids with ColumnLayout
• Building DashBoards

• Chapter 5: Engaging Users with Forms and Data Input
• Introduction
• Building a simple form with basic validation
• Showing options with combos
• Customizing a combo's bound model
• Linking combos
• Capturing multiple input selection
• Simple FileUpload and processing
• Binding data into forms
• Building a better slider field

• Chapter 6: Data Hierarchy with Trees
• Introduction
• Building a basic tree
• Custom node labels
• Decorating trees with icons
• Augmenting trees with ContextMenu
• Building trees with checkbox selection
• Building asynchronous trees
• Custom sorting within trees

• Chapter 7: The Venerable Grid Component
• Introduction
• Basic grid: numbered rows, re-orderable columns
• Formatting cell data
• Grouping column headers
• Aggregating column data
• Easy record selection with checkboxes
• Entering validated data into a grid
• Automatic pagination in grids
• Data grouping in grids
• Custom rendering for grid groups
• Live data group summaries
• BeanModel grid
• Intuitive record filtering

• Chapter 8: Templates and Views
• Introduction
• Formatting data with a basic template
• Doing logic in templates
• Doing math in templates
• Custom ComboBox displays
• Giving details with RowExpander

• Chapter 9: Data Makeovers with Charts and Visualizations
• Introduction
• Using a bar chart
• Using a pie chart
• Using a line chart
• Using an area chart
• Visualizing data from a component
• Visualizing remote Data
• Drawing on a canvas

• Chapter 10: Drag-and-drop
• Introduction
• Dragging any component
• Simple DnD within components
• DnD across components
• DnD from desktop, with HTML5
• Implementing custom DnD on tabs

• Chapter 11: Advanced Tips
• Introduction
• Client/server persistence setup
• Client/server persistence
• A novel UI with MVP, actions, and a bus
• History and view transitions
• Real-time server push

• Chapter 12: Theming
• Introduction
• Setting a default theme
• Registering and using themes
• Switching themes at runtime
• Customizing a theme
• Building a custom theme

• Appendix A: Event Handling—Making Those GUIs Do Something
• The event loop
• Event handling 101
• Summary

• Appendix B: Custom Icons in GXT
• GXT icons
• Leveraging icons in the wild

• Appendix C: GWT-RPC
• Components of the GWT RPC mechanism
• GWT-RPC development steps
• RPC data types
• A simple example
• Handling exceptions
• Summary

• Appendix D: Jakarta Commons–FileUpload
• Handling uploads
• Tracking upload progress

• Index