Help me understand the Role of Extjs Designer...

[mschwartz]

At Ext, we could never standardize on an IDE no matter how hard we tried. We have TextMate, Aptana, Komodo, vim, VS, Eclipse, etc running through our blood. Each of us love working in "our" IDE. If we couldn't convince ourselves to use a standard IDE, the last thing we wanted was to try to force our community to use a "new IDE".

With that in mind, the Designer is not intended to be a code editor. The Designer complements your favorite tool of choice to make you even more productive.

Please continue to send any ideas our way.

Real men jiggle magnets next to the disk drive to get the bits lined up so the code is perfect.

When all else fails, ed or tico.

[Warebear]

At Ext, we could never standardize on an IDE no matter how hard we tried. We have TextMate, Aptana, Komodo, vim, VS, Eclipse, etc running through our blood. Each of us love working in "our" IDE. If we couldn't convince ourselves to use a standard IDE, the last thing we wanted was to try to force our community to use a "new IDE".

With that in mind, the Designer is not intended to be a code editor. The Designer complements your favorite tool of choice to make you even more productive.

Please continue to send any ideas our way.

Yeah I actually don't even use an IDE, I have been considering using either Aptana or Eclipse (tomato, tomata) but I've had several issues with our proxy here with both, as well as, getting them to work efficiently with ExtJS without having to add in plugins and hope all versions match up, etc. So I just stick with Notepad++ to code the pages.


So if you do plan to toss a version out that IS an IDE, I'll be a happy camper..

Until then...I'll still be enjoying the fine work from Ext team and still using the framework, just because this didn't work for MY needs, the framework is still awesome.

[lorezyra]

At first glance, this designer tool looks cool... While I realize this is still v1.0[xds-1.0.0.6], it would be nice if it came a bit more polished. For 200USD, I find it difficult to say that I must buy this given the current "Designer Known Issues":

# Undo/Redo Support is currently disabled
# Recent projects are not added at runtime
# Once you turn off splash screen, no way to get it back
# Nested grids and other "databound" components break when previewing
# Code Generation does not abide by spaces to indent
# Nested grids and other "databound" components break when previewing
# Clear configuration icon cannot be seen if string is longer than field
# Multiline templates which are nested several levels deep do not get broken apart into an array
# fieldLabel of an HTMLEditor cannot be edited inline
# Double click a button to edit text when a menu is bound to it


With that said, I still love the framework and will continue to push it with my customers.

[aconran]

, I find it difficult to say that I must buy this given the current "Designer Known Issues":

I will update this thread, several of these issues have been resolved.

[tarkpea]

I recently wrote about the same issue on my blog so I you do not mind, I'll post some of the "lessons learned" section here aswell:

Balsamiq Mockups is a great tool. For me. It is intuitive and easy to use, saves lots of time and I’m going to buy it once I get tired of the nagging and the saving issues.

Ext Designer is not a tool for mockuping at all and to be honest and with all my respect and love for Ext, I don’t understand what this tool is good for and I will not buy it.

I would not ever use this for project that is larger than maybe 3 screens. The code, considering the way we work, is nearly unusable. Also - after 2 hours of trying to get some data into grids (considering that I have worked with Ext for nearly two years now) I still could not understand how to do it and gave up. Not good.

Read whole post here: http://tarkpea.tumblr.com/post/508559745/on-mockuping