Hi

Could you explain a little more about how you do?

Do you "just" use the look and feel when using form compoents, or have are
you also using the FormPanel?

I have tried to "convert" FormPanel but with very little success :-(

/Flemming


On Jan 24, 2008 6:24 AM, MattClark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> At our company we've been using wicket and ExtJS (1.1) quite successfully
> for
> a while now.  Here are the components we have working:
>  - Accordion - Using a RefreshingView to populate the accordion, rendered
> by
> Ext in the browser
>  - BorderLayout (really doesn't tie to Wicket, we just made a page which
> uses the BorderLayout)
>  - Modal Panel (not using Wicket's ModalPanel)
>  - Drag and drop dashboard - Still has problems, but uses a refreshingview
> to create divs which each are rendered as DnD components by Ext
>  - Form components (date picker, better-styled text boxes)
>
> The basic pattern we're using is to generate markup with Wicket, and use
> behaviors to decorate the wicket components with ExtJS components.
>  Managing
> the complete lifecycle of the Ext component is the trickiest part, but is
> manageable.
>
> Personally I think there are two of us who would like to contribute to a
> WicketStuff project around this, but will have to check with company
> policies about contributing code we've written.
>
>
> xdirewolfx wrote:
> >
> > I will be helping out as well as my company is using extjs and we are
> > planning to move to wicket from existing web framework
> >
> > Matt Jensen-2 wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I would be willing to contribute to this project, but I don't have the
> >> knowledge of Wicket internals (nor ExtJS internals, really) to pull off
> >> the core design.  If somebody starts this, he/she can count on a couple
> >> hours per week from me.
> >>
> >> Martijn Dashorst wrote:
> >>> Sounds like a good wicketstuff project... Do you care to start one?
> >>>
> >>> Martijn
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 9, 2008 7:02 PM, Paolo Di Tommaso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> This is really an interesting topic!
> >>>>
> >>>> I've made some Wicket-Extjs integration tests and I haven't found any
> >>>> particular issues to make them work smoothly together.
> >>>>
> >>>> Extjs UI widgets can be created dynamically or can be attach to
> >>>> existing
> >>>> HTML elements using the element IDs.
> >>>>
> >>>> Following the latter approach is quite easy integrate Extjs with
> >>>> Wicket.
> >>>>
> >>>> The simplest way I've tried is using a behavior to 'attach' an Extjs
> >>>> widget
> >>>> to Wicket component.
> >>>>
> >>>> For example:
> >>>>
> >>>> public class ExtDateFieldBehavior extends ExtAbstractBehavior{
> >>>>
> >>>>     @Override
> >>>>     String getExtjsClassName() {
> >>>>         return "Ext.form.DateField";
> >>>>     }
> >>>>
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> public abstract class ExtAbstractBehavior extends AbstractBehavior {
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     /**
> >>>>      * Used to add all common Extjs required JavaScript and CSS
> >>>> resources
> >>>>      */
> >>>>     @Override
> >>>>     public void bind(Component component) {
> >>>>         if( component == null ) throw new
> >>>> IllegalArgumentException("Argument
> >>>> cannot be null");
> >>>>         component.setOutputMarkupId(true);
> >>>>         component.add(HeaderContributor.forCss( Extjs.Css.EXT_ALL ));
> >>>>         component.add(HeaderContributor.forJavaScript(
> >>>> Extjs.Js.EXT_BASE ));
> >>>>         component.add(HeaderContributor.forJavaScript(
> >>>> Extjs.Js.EXT_ALL_DEBUG ));
> >>>>     }
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     abstract String getExtjsClassName();
> >>>>
> >>>>     abstract String getOptions();
> >>>>
> >>>>     @Override
> >>>>     public void onRendered( Component component ) {
> >>>>         /* create a copy of options */
> >>>>         Config options = new Config( config );
> >>>>         /* initialization */
> >>>>         config(component,options);
> >>>>         /* get the string version */
> >>>>         String sConfig = Extjs.serialize(options);
> >>>>
> >>>>         String extjs = "new " + getExtjsClassName() + "(" +
> >>>> getOptions() +
> >>>> ");";
> >>>>         //TODO log here
> >>>>
> >>>>         Response r = component.getResponse();
> >>>>         r.write( JavascriptUtils.SCRIPT_OPEN_TAG );
> >>>>         r.write( extjs );
> >>>>         r.write( JavascriptUtils.SCRIPT_CLOSE_TAG );
> >>>>     }
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> That's all!
> >>>>
> >>>> Obviously this is just a simple test but it works and can be extended
> >>>> easily
> >>>> for other widgets.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> What I've found not trivial is to pass/define the Extjs widget
> >>>> property/configuration in a easy/elegant way.
> >>>>
> >>>> Would be interesting discuss this...
> >>>>
> >>>> -- Paolo
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jan 9, 2008 6:25 PM, Jeremy Fergason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> wicket seems to provide some nice management classes like TextField,
> >>>>> that
> >>>>> do
> >>>>> things like set the value for you, I don't see how to integrate this
> >>>>> with
> >>>>> a
> >>>>> javascript solution like ExtJs which does not use an <input
> >>>>> type="text"
> >>>>> ...
> >>>>> tag.  It could be something very simple and I am just missing it, if
> >>>>> so
> >>>>> please point me in the right direction.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Jan 9, 2008 10:19 AM, Martijn Dashorst <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> What is keeping you from building it?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Martijn
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Jan 9, 2008 6:15 PM, Reinout van Schouwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Op woensdag 09-01-2008 om 09:07 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef
> Jeremy
> >>>>>>> Fergason:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I'm just starting out with wicket and I would like to use a
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>> client-side
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> javascript library--ExtJs, to enhance the end user experience.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> +1
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> At my company we use Ext2 and are very enthousiastic about it.
> >>>>>>> I want to move us from Struts to Wicket but lack of support for
> Ext2
> >>>>>>> would be a roadblock...
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>> Reinout van Schouwen
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
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