First off let me say that Sencha is a young company and I am behind their vision 100%. Looks like they’re going through some rough waters – their forum has been flooded with spam like I’ve never seen. Take a look:
http://www.sencha.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?81-Ext-Discussion
Another bit of undocumented goodness from yours truly. As you probably know, ExtJS4 form panel contains a very useful method: formpanel.getForm().getValues(), which lets you populate an object with form’s data. Unfortunately, string format is used for all fields, even datefields. I will show you how to easily get valid data types through an undocumented feature:
Continue reading ExtJS 4 Form getValues() Tip
See Previous Example First!
In this example we will enhance our buffered ExtJS4 gridpanel by adding a little flash to the “Notes” field. We will use the power of XTemplate to add conditional row icon button switching. We will add a “notes” field to our model and the grid button will display different icons, based on whether notes are present:
See Previous Example First!
In this example I’ll show you a slightly different approach to adding buttons to a buffered ExtJS4 grid – using templatecolumn. We will add an img element to the HTML markup and intercept click events on the whole table cell. This also lets us enhance normal text cells:
I’ve come to rely on Sencha’s online API for my day-to-day work. Sure, I can use the static docs that come bundled with ExtJS download, but since they introduced API comments, the online version is so much more invaluable.
Unfortunately, today around 8:50 AM PST the docs were down, causing me much grief. Technical difficulties, I guess:
Clean up your act Sencha!
