Ext GWT (GXT) Available for Beta Test

[Eric Clayberg]

The latest GWT Designer v7.1 build now includes (beta) support for Ext GWT (GXT).



We will be beta testing this over the next few weeks, and it will officially be part of our v7.2 release in mid-October.

Note that you will need to download and install Ext GWT (GXT) in order to use this feature. Please be aware of the dual Commercial and Open Source licenses that apply to the library.

[lrama1]

Just tried this feature. It's awesome. Seems to be faster than GWT Ext (at design time).
I'm going to start porting my app from GWT Ext to GXT.
Great job guys..Having GWT Designer (for a couple years now) has taken the pain out of
creating GWT apps. I've been trying to promote this tool to everyone I know
pointing out the fact that its reasonably priced (I honestly think that you should
charge more for the subscriptions) and it does what its supposed to do exceptionally well.

[Eric Clayberg]

Just tried this feature. It's awesome. Seems to be faster than GWT Ext (at design time).
I'm going to start porting my app from GWT Ext to GXT.
Great job guys..Having GWT Designer (for a couple years now) has taken the pain out of
creating GWT apps. I've been trying to promote this tool to everyone I know
pointing out the fact that its reasonably priced (I honestly think that you should
charge more for the subscriptions) and it does what its supposed to do exceptionally well.

Thanks. There will probably be a (modest) price increase when we formally release our GXT support in a few weeks (which means now is a good time to buy it as you can lock in the lower price now).

[zahir]

Dear Eric Clayberg,

I did all that you informed us, but nothing happened.
I mean when I open design mode of GWT Designer I could not see widgets of EXT GWT.
What must I do?

[Eric Clayberg]

Did you configure your project to use GXT?

[dcramb]

Hi,

It seems like when enabling a project for GXT that a GXT resource directory is copied to the project war directory from somewhere. Where does this directory come from? It would be nice if the user could specify the GXT install that this directory is copied from. Is this possible?

Thanks.

[Eric Clayberg]

It seems like when enabling a project for GXT that a GXT resource directory is copied to the project war directory from somewhere. Where does this directory come from?.

It comes from your GXT installation.

It would be nice if the user could specify the GXT install that this directory is copied from. Is this possible?

That is exactly what Configure for using Ext GWT (GXT) does now.

[Jerome C.]

Hello, It's fine to use GXT on gwt Designer

I found some minor issues:
- the function addButton for a GXT FormPanel do not render a button in edit mode
- Is there a solution to see all internationalizations ? It can be very useful to traductors if they can edit all traductions in one place.

Is it here where I must post bugs found on this beta or not ?

[diegolovison]

great work team!

please verify that the behaviour of the grid its differente in designer and in hosted mode.. other ways its impossible add columns... this will be corrected in the release?

regards

[Eric Clayberg]

the function addButton for a GXT FormPanel do not render a button in edit mode

This is now supported in the latest build.

Is there a solution to see all internationalizations ?

GWT Designer includes a tool for extracting strings from the UI components. Is that what you are looking for?

Is it here where I must post bugs found on this beta or not ?

Posting new threads to the main forum is preferred.

[Eric Clayberg]

please verify that the behaviour of the grid its differente in designer and in hosted mode

I'm not really sure what you mean.

other ways its impossible add columns

If you are using the latest GWT Designer v7.1 build, you can add ColumnConfigs to a GXT Grid.

[hairball]

Hi, i recently downloaded and was testing out GWT Builder's latest addition of GXT components. I'm very interested in the ability to create GXT UI's but have noticed that all of the UI layout components are in fixed pixels, and wanted to know if i have simply overlooked something:

Is it possible to set the sides (e.g. "glue") of a layout (LayoutContainer, ContentPanel, Button, etc.) so that it snaps/sticks to the edge of it's parent container for auto resizing purposes?

This has repeatedly given our team headaches when trying to code this type of "dynamic" layout by hand on complex UI's in GXT.

As a reference, the following link contains a description of how this works (see Setting a View’s Autosizing Behavior), with struts & springs, and I've used similar functionality in other products in the past, so this is not a new concept...but seems to be very difficult to wrangle in the GXT realm.

http://developer.apple.com/iPhone/libra ... ayout.html

Any thoughts on including something like this in the future, or is it already in the works, or do i just have to live with it the way it is?

Much Thanks!,
chuck

[Eric Clayberg]

I am not aware of anything like that in GXT, so that would be a good suggestion to approach the GXT developers about.

We have supported constraint based layouts like that in our other products for more than a dozen years.

[hairball]

Hi Eric,

I'm in the process of building a small example describing this concept and submitting it on the GXT forum.
I really appreciate your speedy reply, and hope that the GXT team can provide some constraint-based layout in the future. I'll keep you posted as i hear back from them.

thanks,
chuck

[Eric Clayberg]

I'll keep you posted as i hear back from them.

Sounds good.

Note that GXT support is officially now part of the GWT Designer v7.2 release.