ColdExt Wiki and Getting Started Tutorial

Having a bunch of custom tags and an XML dictionary for CFEclipse is one thing, but knowing how to use them is another! So last night I began working on every developer's favourite task... documentation :P

The ColdExt Wiki is now enabled on RIAForge and I have started out with baby steps by writing a Getting Started Tutorial which covers the absolute basic requirements of getting up and running with ColdExt.

I have a number of pages and tutorials planned for the wiki (some of which I have already made notes of on the wiki home page) and will get around to adding them as soon as I can. If anyone would like to help out with documentation (rofl!) or start a discussion about what documentation is needed the ColdExt Forums could be a good place to do it. I am open to suggestions!

The next release of ColdExt will very much be about better documentation and demos, in addition to more tags and enhancements of course :)


P.S. Does anybody know if it's possible to turn off WikiTerms on RIAForge? At the least I think a special token like __NOTERMS__ would be very useful.

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Justin, please hit me up via email to discuss the Ext license for ColdExt.

Thanks
# Posted By Rey Bango | 3/27/08 1:04 PM
Just an update: the Ext licensing info has been added to the downloadable package on RIAForge.
# Posted By Justin Carter | 3/28/08 12:01 AM
Justin - one thing that might help some other folks is to turn off CF Debugging when running the Ext ajax stuff. I couldn't figure out why i couldn't get the demos to populate like the ones you have here.
# Posted By Steve E | 3/31/08 6:55 PM
@Steve: That's a good point, thanks for posting here publicly. I got the same feedback from someone else as well, so I have added cfsetting to the top of those files to turn off debugging output when sending back Ajax responses (I haven't commited it to SVN just yet though).

I'll make a note on the Wiki to remind folks to be aware of debug output issues when developing with Ajax.
# Posted By Justin Carter | 3/31/08 7:02 PM
Is coldext project still under dev or not? its long time no news from your end.
# Posted By Neil | 6/5/08 6:03 PM
@Neil, Yes it is still under development. There is new code in SVN and activity on the Forums on RIAForge. I was hoping to release beta 2 before Scotch on the Rocks but its not quite ready yet :) If you need anything in particular please feel free to request it on RIAForge.
# Posted By Justin Carter | 6/6/08 7:20 AM
Hi Justin,
im very excited about your extJS-Project.
Theres one thing i struggle with:
When using ComboBox, how do i set an inital Value to the Form when editing a Record in a CRUD application?
Do i have to set this within a listener in the jsonStore tag or the comboBox tag?
# Posted By Daniel | 6/12/08 4:34 PM
@Daniel: I'm not 100% sure of the best way to handle it but there are a couple of threads on the Ext JS Forums that might help. I guess most people add an onload listener to the store and use setValue() to set the value on the comboBox:

http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11703

It seems silly that there isn't a nicer way to handle the defaults though. There is a setValue() and setRawValue() method that you can use after a component has been created, but no way of setting the "hidden" value using the constructor config options (which is the way ColdExt creates the components!).
# Posted By Justin Carter | 6/12/08 6:51 PM
Hey, I've tried to make an implementation of the ext "Portal" in coldExt. I think it's working, but probably far from a best practice implementation of the framework. Drop me a line if you'd like the bits to review.
# Posted By Dylan Miyake | 6/20/08 3:56 PM
Dylan,

i was also a bit insecure about best practice implementation with coldext, not least because i'm new to extJS aswell. But in ht end i was surprised about the flexibility coldext offers me and how coldext alows me to do things in different way.

Any more Details about your review?
# Posted By Daniel | 6/21/08 4:19 AM
Dylan sent me the Portal demo and it works like a charm. I'll be posting more on user extensions and tags in the coming days.
# Posted By Justin Carter | 6/21/08 9:42 AM
Justin, I have some working examples as well that you could put out there for people. Let me know if you need them.

I can help with documentation too if you like. It will give me a chance to give something back, since your library has helped me out quite a bit on a couple of projects. :-)
# Posted By Evagoras Charalambous | 9/17/10 7:26 AM



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