It’s been *over a year* since i last showed an example of the OS Ext desktop, and I’ve decided to start back up on things again.  I have completely rewritten the dock to extend Ext.BoxComponent, which utilizes the Ext.Component infrastructure.  Also, the OSExt.DockIcon class uses BoxComponent as well, and will register itself upon instantiation, forcing the dock to resize when an icon is being placed in the dock.    I plaon on this Ext Desktop demo to be very resource intensive, utilizing as much Effects as possible.  Well see how things go

Click the image below to take a gander at the resize animation.

 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