famfamfam icons packaged with css for use with Ext 2.x

April 22nd, 2008 Jay Garcia

The excellent famfamfam silk icon set has been repackaged to include related CSS and JS for use with Ext.

TDGi.icons.tgz

TDGi.icons.zip
This can be used anywhere iconCls is a config option. I.e.:

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A Javascript based ‘CoverFlow’ effect - SideFlow 1.1 by MediaEvent Services

April 4th, 2008 Jay Garcia

SideFlow, created by MediaEvent Services is a pretty radical way of providing a ‘CoverFlow’ effect with pure Javascript.  I’ll be honest, I am disappointed with the speed, but expected it to perform the way it is.  I mean it is javascript.    I still have to say that it’s very impressive.

According to the blog article, it uses  the Tigra Slider control, Scriptaculous and Prototype

SideFlow

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One way to get form panels in a window to work with data records or json easily

April 4th, 2008 Jay Garcia

Below is an example of how to get a formPanel to work inside of an Ext.Window really easily. Simply call the class’s .show() method with a json object or an instance of a Ext.Data.Record object and it will do the rest. I realize that this should have probably been done in a ‘module’ or ’singleton’ pattern but I wanted to exercise my use of classes and Ext.extend, etc. In fact, the class could have been blown out more to accept any instance of a form, etc, but I started to get crunched on time.

Click here to view the example
formWindowExample illustrated

Click here to download the file formWindow.zip.

Example Code

Class

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Ext JS Sceencast #002, Ext.extend explained

April 1st, 2008 Jay Garcia

Here we talk about Ext.extend and how it can be used to your advantage to ‘extend’ or ‘override’ methods or properties from one class to another.

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