Templating Ext.field.Field

[Podlipensky]

I'd like to implement custom field, and specified tpl property on it, but I noted that Ext.AbstractComponent is looking for renderTemplate. So what should I use? (i've tried both actually and got different errors there)

[mitchellsimoens]

Ext.field.Field uses the getElementConfig method route where it returns an object of element structure to create.

[Podlipensky]

In other words, there is no ability to customize field's template, right?

[mitchellsimoens]

Sure there is. Override this method to add or remove what you need.

[Podlipensky]

Mmm, I feel myself not comfortable when I need to override method of one of the base classes.
Anyway, what kind of config should I return, I've tried this one:
I've tried such approach:

getElementConfig: function() {
        var prefix = Ext.baseCSSPrefix;


        return {
            reference: 'element',
            className: 'x-container',
            children: [
                {
                    reference: 'label',
                    cls: prefix + 'form-label',
                    children: [{
                        reference: 'labelspan',
                        tag: 'span'
                    }]
                },
                {
                    reference: 'renderTemplate',
                    tag: 'div',
                    tpl: this.tpl,
                    data: this.renderData,
                    cls: prefix + 'component-outer'
                }
            ]
        };
    },

But it simply makes tpl and data as custom properties on field's dom element. What kind of config it is? Is it different from what we had in Sencha 1.x?

But it makes tpl and data as custom properties on dom element. So, what kind of config it is?

[Podlipensky]

...and what type of object renderTemplate should be? It has cloneNode method, but Ext.XTemplate class doesn't have such object? Thanks.

[estesbubba]

Did you have any luck on this? I'm having the same problem myself converting a 1.1 custom field to 2.0.

http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...rom-1.1-to-2.0