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

Here is part 2 of the Ext.extend screencast.

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

Inspired by Sean McDaniel’s WindowBlinds extension, I’ve decided to work on Window Drawers. His extension is used in many places, including a contract in which we worked on briefly together. Sean provided a prototype of his code for Window drawers, which used some of the same code base as the blinds extension. His solution is very light weight, relative to my approach, which ultimately makes it faster.Click here to view the great (and configurable) example of Sean’s WindowBlinds extension directly from his site.

However, I wanted to take a different approach with the drawer solution, using Ext’s components, which provides the developer a means to use this as a generic panel, adding what ever they wish.

For now here is a snapshot and a teaser video.

Some remaining action items:

- Finalize Z-ordering issue (windowmanager, etc)

- Resizing for the window needs to be managed properly.