davidber
1 Jun 2007, 8:09 PM
I am not sure if this is too off topic for this forum or not. If it is, could the moderators please move this to the appropriate forum :)
We are looking at using Ext JS in an upcoming project. First and foremost, I am not a programmer by any means. I am the guy who signs the checks and says, this is neat, make it happen. With our progammers away for a week, my curiosity is killing me to see if this will be a good fit for us.
I was brought here by doing a search on jquery and interface. I had no idea that this library existed prior to this search and now am extremely intriqued about it. We have standardized on using jquery for our base library. We have standardized on a few addons from interface for jquery. I went through the flash presentation and am completely impressed at some of the features that this library has.
One demonstration has me particulary impressed and thus had me thinking about using ext JS for our project. In a simple nutshell we need to emulate Windows Explorer. The demo under Tree/Photo Organizer w/ Tree is extremely close to what we are trying to accomplish.
My questions are, when the user drags a photo over (I assume this can be any object) they can place it into a folder. I see that they can create new folders as well. When they 'move' the object into a folder, can it remove it from the list of available objects. In essence, a move not a copy. Can the user delete the object from a folder? For example, could they drop it onto a 'trash can' and then get a prompt to confirm deletion? Can you lock the folders so that at a certain path level that they are not renamable? In your example, you have Album1, Album2, Album3 - is there a way to not let those be renamed but ones that are created a path below it? Can the user create 'copies' that are shortcuts and place them in other folders? I guess again, the best way to say this is can we completely replicate Windows Explorer using this library?
Thanks in advance for your time, and sorry for the non-technical talk.
dave
We are looking at using Ext JS in an upcoming project. First and foremost, I am not a programmer by any means. I am the guy who signs the checks and says, this is neat, make it happen. With our progammers away for a week, my curiosity is killing me to see if this will be a good fit for us.
I was brought here by doing a search on jquery and interface. I had no idea that this library existed prior to this search and now am extremely intriqued about it. We have standardized on using jquery for our base library. We have standardized on a few addons from interface for jquery. I went through the flash presentation and am completely impressed at some of the features that this library has.
One demonstration has me particulary impressed and thus had me thinking about using ext JS for our project. In a simple nutshell we need to emulate Windows Explorer. The demo under Tree/Photo Organizer w/ Tree is extremely close to what we are trying to accomplish.
My questions are, when the user drags a photo over (I assume this can be any object) they can place it into a folder. I see that they can create new folders as well. When they 'move' the object into a folder, can it remove it from the list of available objects. In essence, a move not a copy. Can the user delete the object from a folder? For example, could they drop it onto a 'trash can' and then get a prompt to confirm deletion? Can you lock the folders so that at a certain path level that they are not renamable? In your example, you have Album1, Album2, Album3 - is there a way to not let those be renamed but ones that are created a path below it? Can the user create 'copies' that are shortcuts and place them in other folders? I guess again, the best way to say this is can we completely replicate Windows Explorer using this library?
Thanks in advance for your time, and sorry for the non-technical talk.
dave