Hello again.

1. The sencha.com website doesn't make it easy or obvious how to download 
ext-3.2.1.zip.  I followed the link on 
http://www.geoext.org/tutorials/quickstart.html, to 
http://www.sencha.com/products/js/download.php.  There are 'download' links for 
either the GPL or commercial versions, but both are for ext-3.3.1.zip.  There's 
a link to download ext-2.3.0.zip, and by hacking the URL a bit I figured out 
you can get 3.2.1 by loading 
http://www.sencha.com/products/js/thank-you.php?dl=extjs321.  Perhaps the 
GeoExt tutorial could link directly to this URL?  Just following the link to 
the normal Sencha downloads page doesn't make it at all clear how you can get 
old versions.

2. When I unzip ext-3.2.1.zip, I still find 
ext-3.2.1/resources/css/ext-all.css, not ext-3.2.1/resources/ext-all.css as 
referenced by http://www.geoext.org/tutorials/quickstart.html#basic-example.  
So I think that part of the tutorial does indeed require a change.

Are there plans to officially support ext-3.3.1?  Getting a copy of 3.2.1 was 
quite a hassle, so if there are compatibility problems this will be a barrier 
for people like myself who are just trying out GeoExt.  
http://www.sencha.com/blog/2010/10/11/ext-js-3-3-final-released/ says "Ext JS 
3.3 is a drop-in replacement for Ext JS 3.2 — most applications won’t require 
any changes."  Of course I understand you can just accept that assertion at 
face value, but I am wondering if anyone has looked into supporting ext-3.3.1, 
or communicated with Sencha about making old versions more easily available.

thanks,
alex


On Jan 21, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Alex Dean wrote:

> Understood.  Thank you.  I'll get ext-3.2.1 and continue from there.
> 
> alex
> 
> On Jan 21, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Andreas Hocevar wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> the reason why we use 3.2.1 in the examples is because GeoExt 1.0 was tested 
>> with Ext JS 3.2.1 (see http://trac.geoext.org/wiki/Release/1.0/Notes)
>> 
>> On the page you linked, also note that "Getting GeoExt" lit. 3 says 
>> "Download ExtJS 3.2 from the ExtJS website", and lit. 4 says "I will assume 
>> that this is the root of your web server, so that GeoExt.js is at 
>> http://localhost/GeoExt/lib/GeoExt.js and ext-all.js is at 
>> http://localhost/ext-3.2.1/ext-all.js";
>> 
>> So if you use something different than assumed here, you have to make the 
>> appropriate adjustments in your code as well.
>> 
>> Let us know if this still does not make sense.
>> 
>> Andreas.
>> 
>> On Jan 21, 2011, at 16:50 , Alex Dean wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi.  I've just been trying out 
>>> http://www.geoext.org/tutorials/quickstart.html
>>> 
>>> Step 1 in the 'Basic Example' includes:
>>> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" 
>>> href="ext-3.2.1/resources/ext-all.css"></link>
>>> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" 
>>> href="GeoExt/resources/geoext-all-debug.css"></link>
>>> 
>>> I have ext-3.3.1 and GeoExt-1.0.  The correct paths are actually
>>> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" 
>>> href="ext-3.3.1/resources/css/ext-all.css"></link>
>>> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" 
>>> href="GeoExt/resources/css/geoext-all-debug.css"></link>
>>> 
>>> Granted, it's a minor change and not that hard to figure out, but for 
>>> someone just getting going these little things add frustration.  If this 
>>> website is version-controlled, I'd be happy to submit a patch to fix this.
>>> 
>>> best,
>>> alex
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>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Andreas Hocevar
>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
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>> 
>> 
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