Ext.ux.grid.ExplorerView - Windows Explorer look-a-like grid

[davidhoyt]

Great job!!

Any updates? Is D&D fully functional yet?

[kaigan]

Hi,

Thanks! I haven't really had time to look into this extension that much lately, I've been busy developing some other really cool stuff with Ext

D&D "seems" to work, I just haven't had time to test it thoroughly, other than that, a few more tweaks to the default templates and it should be ready for production use.

Now

[Hunyi]

Making D&D work you have to complete the function of Ext.ux.grid.ExplorerView.doRender in this way:

    doRender: function(cs, rs, ds, startRow, colCount, stripe){
        if (this.rowTemplate == null) {
            // Let GridView class handle "normal" rows
            return Ext.ux.grid.ExplorerView.superclass.doRender.apply(
                this, arguments);
        } else {
            var ts = this.templates, rt = ts.row;
            var buf = [];
            for(var j = 0, len = rs.length; j < len; j++){
                //Set rowindex for DD and the other functions
                var rowIndex = (j+startRow);
                rs[j].data.rowIndex = rowIndex;
                buf[buf.length] = rt.apply(rs[j].data);
            }
            //Need to clear for DD
            buf[buf.length] = "<div style='clear: both;'></div>";
            return buf.join("");
        }
    }, 

[Digbert]

Would anybody be so kind as to tell me, a complete beginner at ext, and really not very experienced JS programmer, how I could make a simple example that would demonstrate the explorerView? NOTE: Please make no assumptions about what I might 'already know'. I am not even sure how many files I should put where and how in the VS2008 project I will be crating it in. Plus, how do I reference the control, and what code in an aspx file would call it.

I really am lost, so any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you to anyone who spneds the time to help me out on this issue.

Perhaps id someone would post a basic example with some comments it might get me going in the right direction.

D.

[tonedeaf]

Wow!!

@kaigan

D&D "seems" to work, I just haven't had time to test it thoroughly, other than that, a few more tweaks to the default templates and it should be ready for production use.

Seriously, I'm tempted to use this extension in my applications even though its in pre-alpha stage. Seems to work fine in IE and Firefox, which are all I support. And it loads reasonably fast, so the performance looks ok too.

Can you let me know any serious hurdles I may face if its used in a production environment? Or can you complete the tweaks to get it production ready.

I really would like to use this extension !

[Digbert]

Hey, Tonedeaf, would you be willing to share with me the basics of your example? I am really keen to use this control, but am really stuck...

Apart from the js scripts (and exactly which ones will I need??), where does all the data that's shown in the explorer actually need to be stored, and how??

Cheers, D.

[tonedeaf]

@Digbert
Can you get the ExtJS examples working? They don't need any server side code to work. Once you have that working, just drop the explorerview zip file in examples folder and point your browser to explorerview folder.

I would suggest that you get the basic grids working first, then look at the explorerview grid example to base your code upon.

[Digbert]

@tonedeaf

I got the basic array grid to work, except the css isn't pointing to the images correctly(I'm not sure where to get them from).

Anyway, it works wi/out images. As for the explorerView, what do you mean with "examples" folder. What examples folder, where?

cheers T.D.

D.

EDIT: I found the examples folder and see what you mean now. I shoved the whole stuff in there, and now it works - yippee. Thanks again TD.

[mschwartz]

Very nice. It needs to be combined with Saki's file tree and temporary's location bar.

[Scorpie]

Very nice. It needs to be combined with Saki's file tree and temporary's location bar.

+1