Hi Juraj,

Thanks for sharing your experience/advices!

How satisified are you in using pure GXT widgets to build your project? Did you 
use
GXT's 
MVC(http://extjs.com/deploy/gxtdocs/com/extjs/gxt/ui/client/mvc/package-summary.html)?
 Did you experience this problem: http://blog.gerardin.info/archives/40

Thanks again,
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Juraj Vitko
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 10:19 AM
To: Google Web Toolkit
Subject: Re: GXT widgets vs GWT widgets


GXT offers consistent look, Accessibility, and localization.
And if I'm not mistaken, GXT uses layouts incompatible to GWT's layouts - I 
think you have to encapsulate a GWT widget into a BoxComponent to be able to 
use it in a GXT layout.

For quick and stable development, I'd go with GXT 100%, no mixing, only when 
building my own components.
If time permitted it, then for a visually appealing, snappy website or app I'd 
go with GWT + my own custom widgets (or 3rd party libs) built on top of GWT, 
and no mixing with GXT.
I may be wrong, because I haven't developed without GXT yet.


On Aug 14, 9:44 am, Daniel Jue <[email protected]> wrote:
> From the few widget libs I have tried, they all feel "heavy" compared 
> to the base gwt ones.  You also have to think about the events and 
> handlers/listeners--often the widget lib will have it's own classes 
> for this (with the same names), and they are not compatible AFAIK.
>
> For SmartGWT I noticed there are even two types of events, handlers 
> and buttons--one for components in a special form widget, and one for 
> more regular widgets.
>
> So you have to weigh the added learning curve versus trying to style 
> something yourself or create the nice looking widgets you want..
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:37 AM, mars1412 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I also think the GWT widgets are more lightweight but usually I try 
> > to use GXT widgets only, because then I have a consistent look&feel.
>
> > of course there are some exceptions to the rule :)
>
> > On Aug 13, 8:02 pm, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I agree with your thinking.  I see the GWT widgets as being lighter.
> > > If there is a comparable GWT widget that fulfills all of my needs 
> > > I normally lean towards that.
>
> > > On Aug 13, 10:17 am, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi All,
>
> > > > We all know GXT offers a lots of advanced widgets. Some of the 
> > > > widgets overlap with GWT widgets. I am looking for some advice 
> > > > on choosing GXT widget or GWT widgets in the situation of they 
> > > > both offer the same type of widgets, maybe GXT widget is a bit more 
> > > > good looking.
>
> > > > My concern is that GXT widgets might not offer the same quality 
> > > > as GWT widgets on cross-browser compatiblity, styling and 
> > > > extending etc. I initial thought is I would only use GXT grid 
> > > > widget, which is the one
> > we
> > > > are sure we need to use. Everything else, as long as GWT provide 
> > > > the function widget, I would choose GWT widget first. Such as 
> > > > for layout, I would use GWT panel widgets, and would not use GXT layout 
> > > > widgets etc.
>
> > > > I would appreciate if you can share your experience, advice on 
> > > > using
> > GXT
> > > > widgets vs GWT widgets.
>
> > > > Thank you in advance!
> > > > Brian
>
>



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