Ext Window Drawers Alpha 1 is released today with two new examples; the drag and drop and basic grid window in the desktop.

Click here to download: winDrawers.alpha1.tgz

The following features were added:

• IE6 and IE7 Certification
• Fx3 Certification
• Titles
• Support for [ X ] close button in titles
• Resize finished
• Window.el.move intercepted
• animate : true || false honored

Examples to date:

• Four Drawer basic
• Grid and Form
• Grid to grid DnD (new)
• Web Desktop (new - not complete)

(drag and drop example)

(grid in desktop window example)

Known issues:

• IE6/7 - Issues with z-ordering (desktop only thus far)
• Desktop window maximize to normal size not  hooked properly

Worked on the drawers a little more and wanted to show a simple use case.

Click here to see it in action.  Test drive the four drawer demo and the grid demo below.

To Do list:

• Enable resize for the drawers
• Honor the animate boolean
• Set configurable fx
• enable shadows
• Anything else that the community would like

Per the requested changes from this Extjs.com thread.

Another sneak peak

http://tdg-i.com/img/screencasts/2008-08-08_1812.swf

For my employer, I’m currently experimenting with an awesome FLEX library called flexvizgraplib which is nothing short of remarkable. It was relatively easy to integrate with EXTJS.  Essentially, this application map is gathered via queries to my employer’s installation of HP Universal Configuration Manager Database without having to use their unreliable API.   The maps will represent dependency relationships with applications, servers and databases.  This application serves as an Operations Portal for my employer’s data center.

Wow - it’s been a while since I’ve updated you guys on my work with the OSExt Desktop. For now, the main mechanism for launching applications will be like a start-menu. I’m hoping to have actual Dock icons for each application to mimic OS X as much as possible - without the use of flash or the fish-eye effect (yuck!). I’ve done a lot of work to update the icon set for the windows. I’m hoping to eventually center the title of the window and move the icons to the left. This will require a user extension to the current Ext.Window object.

Right now this is still treated as highly experimental - thus I’m not going to release this to the public yet. Hopefully in the next few weeks. There are some serious bugs with IE (no surprise) and Safari.

You can view it in action here.