The purpose of this post is to provide a quick update on the progress of the HeaderToolbar plugin.

I’m currently working on the following features:
- Animated Collapse
- Showing Raw buttons (option)
- Add “collapse header toolbar” tool (matches feature from OS X);

Known issues:
- not fully compatible with IE7 & IE8 – surprised?
- Shadow for window out of sync.
- Expand/Collapse animations are not fully functional.
Click here for a quick demonstration: http://tdg-i.com/js/examples/ext3/plugins/panelheader/

To those of you who question the need or desire for such a plugin, take a quick look at Windows and OSX panels as exhibit the same features.

Windows Vista/7

OS X

Here is a quick preview of the ‘HeaderToolbar’ plugin that adds some functionality to the Panel and Window classes of the Ext JS framework that mimic OS X window/panel Top Toolbar. I’m looking for any comments/suggestions/etc. I cannot release code until I get confirmation from Ext JS, LLC that I can do so, as I have to modify and distribute overrides for the Window and Panel classes.

Header Toolbar

This is totally cool! Ajaxian.com provided a quick blurb about Ext JS In Action at this link here. Manning is also offering 35% off the book, but you have to visit the Ajaxian.com to get it .

Thanks to the Ajaxian.com team for mentioning the book .

Click here to download a 131 640×480 M4V (H.264/iPod) video version. Runtime: 22 minutes.

To all of you who have provided feedback on the Ext JS Screencasts, thank you so very much for taking the time to provide comments and help make this a better experience for all.

Many of you commented on how cotton-picking slow the screencasts were downloading. It wasn’t until recently that I was aware of Amazon’s S3 service, an extremely cheap cloud computing platform.  Thankfully, they are dirt cheap and relatively easy to setup. Thanks to this neat little S3 introduction at hongkiat.com, I was able to setup screencast #009 and screencast #010 on the CDN. I’m looking for your comments on the change.

I am going to move over the other screencasts hosted on this site soon.  I am on the fence about placing the downloadable m4v files (Apple QuickTime) on the CDN.

Thoughts?