New Example

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Hi, I've just uploaded the example of dragging from a tree and dropping on a div. http://examples.extjs.eu Enjoy!

New Example

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Hi, I've just uploaded the example of populating a combo with data loaded from server on form load. http://examples.extjs.eu Enjoy!

New Example

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Hi all, I've just posted new example at http://examples.extjs.eu This example shows how to setup dragging of items within a container to reposition them. Items positions are saved using Ext state management and CookieProvider. The example also shows: how to customize a class without extending how to create items using (X)Template how to setup a state saving how ...

New example

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Hi all, I've just uploaded new example, Handling Item Clicks, that shows how to handle clicks on items contained in a container in one event handler with possibility to disable items and thus ignore click on them. Enjoy!

Writing a Big Application in Ext (Part 2)

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Important If you have not already done so, study Writing a Big Application in Ext (Part 1) before you read this article. It would be very hard, if not impossible, to understand concepts explained here before you fully understand the first part. Introduction It has been almost one year since I have published ...

New example

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I have just uploaded new example Tabs in Form that shows how to correctly configure a form spreading multiple tabs. Enjoy!

Which events are fired?

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

We need to know all events that are fired by a component and in which order sometimes. It is easy to find out. Let's say that the component in question has id my-comp. Load the page with the component, open Firebug, Console tab, and type: Ext.util.Observable.capture(Ext.getCmp('my-comp'), console.info) Now do some actions with the ...

Events Explained

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Historical Background Most likely many of you who will read this article do not remember times of Fortran language and computers that were fed with tons of punch cards to have some some job done. The main purpose of computers at that time was to compute something really; that is not true ...

Displaying 1:n Data in Grid

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

The Problem Imagine that you have a one-to-many relationship in your database, for example, you have table person in which you keep personal data (first, middle, last names, etc.) and you have table phone where you keep phone numbers (phone type, phone number). It is quite common to have person:phones, company:phones, order:items, ...

xtype defined

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Preface There has been a lot of confusion I have observed on the Ext Forums as to xtype. Some people ignore it fully, some think that it is what it is not. So I've decided to clarify it. Definition xtype is a symbolic name given to a class. Nothing less, nothing more. For ...