Couple of days ago new version of Ext JS become available for download. The changes are here:
* Full REST support
* Added Ext.StatusBar Component and Samples
* Added Ext.Slider Component and Samples
* Added Example to demonstrate Remote Loading of Component Configs
* Added Grid Filtering Sample
* Added Layout Browser Sample
* Added Spotlight Sample
We were waiting for quite some time to see this happening. After having so big variety of JavaScript libraries it was about time to see one of them build in into ASP.NET controls. Coolite has the answer!
These guys are the creators of the killer app called DateJS which we wrote about way back in November. Now the continue with the good work and created Coolite suite. It includes:
* Powerful integration of the Ext JavaScript Framework.
* Full Design-Time support in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2005 & 2008.
* Drag-and-drop ease of use.
* Current support for Window, Panel and a many Form Controls including DatePicker, Calendar and HtmlEditor.
* New Controls being added weekly.
* Dual Licensed (LGPL 3.0 and Coolite Commercial License).
* Professional support options available shortly.
From the form controls they have included
* Calendar
* CheckBox
* DatePicker
* FieldSet
* HtmlEditor
* NumberTextBox
* RadioButton
* TextArea
* TextBox
Check out some examples here
GWT-Ext is a powerful widget library that provides rich widgets like Grid with sort, paging and filtering, Tree’s with Drag & Drop support, highly customizable ComboBoxes, Tab Panels, Menus & Toolbars, Dialogs, Forms and a lot more right out of the box with a powerful and easy to use API. It uses GWT and Ext.
The company description above says it all. Nice set of controls which support Ext 2.0.
Check out some demos here.
These guys are doing very serious job as moving the production effords further. The new beta comes with updated samples which are Web Desktop and my personnal favourite Portal.
2.0 Availability
The Ext 2.0 codebase has stabilized and several clients have begun to use Ext 2.0 in production environments. Ext 2.0 is available for download and code updates are available to SVN subscribers in the Ext SVN under branches/ext2.0.
The team has really focused on enhancing the desktop-like experience that Ext already provides by introducing new functionality, improving performance and keeping the overall file size down.
Ext 2.0 framework and will make developing desktop-like application substantially easier. These include:
* Scrolling Tabs
* Highly configurable single-level column grouping capabilities as well as summary rollups at the group level.
* Anchor layout in forms to ensure a consistent size and position for form fields regardless of browser size.
* Treeviews that support additional columns for each leaf node.
Prior to this release, the demos for Ext were consolidated into the API viewer making it cumbersome to differentiate what was a demo and what was part of the API document viewer. We have now detached the demos and organized them onto a standalone page. The applications are also grouped into specific subsections to allow Ext developers to drill down into applications that show specific Ext functionality.
Building dashboard-style applications similar to iGoogle or PageFlakes are all the rage so we’ve included a demo application as a foundation for building a portal application. The demo includes functionality for smooth repositioning of the portlets via drag and drop functionality and each portlet has the standard minimize and close functionality found in similar dashboard implementations. In addition, each portlet has a settings icon which is bound to a custom event handler and allows Ext developers to define behaviors that their users can apply to specific portlets.