[...]... Java using ExtGWT Sencha ExtGWT takes GWT to the next level, giving you high performance widgets, feature -rich templates and layouts, advanced charting, data loaders and stores, accessibility, and much more ExtGWT Rich Internet Application Cookbook will teach you to quickly build stunning functionality into your own apps, with ExtGWT This is a catalog of practical solutions to get your ExtGWT web app... implementing a server-side push Chapter 12, Theming, explains how to use ExtGWT' s existing UI themes, how to switch themes, and how to build a custom theme Appendix A, Event Handling—Making Those GUIs Do Something, explains ExtGWT' s event-handling mechanism Appendix B, Custom Icons in GXT, explains how to add custom icons to your application Appendix C, GWT-RPC, describes GWT's RPC mechanism for client-server... and its use for formatting data Chapter 9, Data Makeovers with Charts and Visualizations, deals with the various charts available in ExtGWT as well as drawing shapes with the Canvas class Chapter 10, Drag-and-drop, deals with the drag-and-drop mechanism available in ExtGWT as well as using a third-party library to do drag-and-drop, using HTML5 Chapter 11, Advanced Tips, introduces various advanced... library for uploading files in a GWT application 2 Preface What you need for this book To work with GWT, Java SDK needs to be installed It can be downloaded from here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html The GWT SDK as well as the GWT Eclipse plugin can be downloaded from here: https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/download Sencha's ExtGWT library can be downloaded from... selecting your title from http://www packtpub.com/support Piracy Piracy of copyright material on the Internet is an ongoing problem across all media At Packt, we take the protection of our copyright and licenses very seriously If you come across any illegal copies of our works, in any form, on the Internet, please provide us with the location address or website name immediately so that we can pursue... Window basicWindow = new Window(); basicWindow.setHeading("GXT CookBook | Recipe One"); basicWindow.setClosable(true); basicWindow.setSize(250, 50); 8 Chapter 1 // prepare content to show LayoutContainer textPanel = new VerticalPanel(); textPanel.setStyleAttribute("padding", "15px"); textPanel.addText("This is our first recipe from GXT Cookbook, how are we doing so far "); // place content on the window... developer who wants to build really cool and powerful web apps using cutting-edge Java technology and web standards Knowledge of basic web technologies and a working GWT setup is needed Basic knowledge of ExtGWT will be an advantage Conventions In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation... initial dimension with setSize()." A block of code is set as follows: @Override public void onModuleLoad() { // create and set up window Window basicWindow = new Window(); basicWindow.setHeading("GXT CookBook | Recipe One"); basicWindow.setClosable(true); basicWindow.setSize(250, 50); 3 Preface New terms and important words are shown in bold Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes... chapter include building a tree, adding custom icons and context menus to the tree, adding checkbox selection to tree nodes, and building asynchronous trees Chapter 7, The Venerable Grid Component, presents ExtGWT' s complex Grid component The chapter's recipes demonstrate various features of this complex component, such as: formatting cell data, grouping data and headers, aggregating data, entering data into... that you begin thinking of them in a way that does not limit their usage to overlays Windows as UI controls became really cool in web development with the advent of Ajax, which in many ways makes web applications behave like multi-threaded operating systems—allowing asynchronous activities to continue in the background while the user is engaged with the active window These new breeds of window widgets . ExtGWT Rich Internet Application Cookbook 80 recipes to build rich Java web apps on the robust GWT platform, with Sencha ExtGWT Odili Charles Opute Oded Nissan BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI ExtGWT Rich. more. ExtGWT Rich Internet Application Cookbook will teach you to quickly build stunning functionality into your own apps, with ExtGWT. This is a catalog of practical solutions to get your ExtGWT. advantage of the power and versatility of Java using ExtGWT. Sencha ExtGWT takes GWT to the next level, giving you high performance widgets, feature -rich templates and layouts, advanced charting,