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Tuesday 30 September 2008

SmartGWT is arriving

Sanjiv Jivan

Things are coming along great and users can expect a rather full featured alpha release soon. I've been very pleased working with the SmartClient API's. SmartClient has a very complete API and during the development of SmartGWT things just worked! No corner cases, quirks or missing API's. A good percentage of SmartGWT is being generated from metadata and uses GWT 1.5 features like Overlays where appropriate so the alpha release is going to be quite stable and perform well.

SmartGWT is arriving soon!

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Monday 22 September 2008

GWT Mosaic : nice widget library

Georgios Georgopoulos

GWT Mosaic is a widget library for RIA application based on the standard GWT widgets and event model, and, is also based on the gwt-dnd libary for all drag & drop operations. GWT Mosaic is not an alternative to the GWT's widgets, it tries to extend GWT by providing new widgets like the layout managers or use widgets from other frameworks like GWT Incubator's glasspanel, date picker, tables, trees and more.
The LayoutPanel (which extends GWT's AbsolutePanel) is the corner stone for most of the widgets that are implemented. LayoutPanel is using absolute positioning to layout widgets instead of relying on HTML layout. So far, three layout managers are implemented: FillLayout, BoxLayout and BorderLayout. Another very important widget that is missing from GWT standard widget set is the WindowPanel. WindowPanel is based on GWT's DecoratedPopupPanel and is using gwt-dnd for the moving and resizing.
The goal is to provide a complete widget set by keeping the API as close as possible to the GWT's standard widgets API.
GWT Mosaic is licensed under Apache 2.0 like GWT/GWT Incubator and gwt-dnd.

http://code.google.com/p/gwt-mosaic/

GWT Mosaic Showcase (need access to port 8880)

Update : Georgios has pushed a new link for the demo, it now uses the port 80.

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Thursday 18 September 2008

Ext GWT 1.1 Released

Darrell Meyer

We are pleased to announce the release of Ext GWT 1.1. This release is packed full of new features and components. Ext GWT 1.1 is a recommended upgrade for all Ext GWT 1.0 users.

New Features : Grid, Grid Plugins, Grid Grouping, EditableGrid, ComboBox Additions, Portals, Web Desktop.

Ext GWT 1.1 Released

 

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Wednesday 17 September 2008

GWT-Ext 2.0.5

A new version of GWT Ext is available.  It now supports GWT 1.5.2 :

Thank you everyone for waiting. This release capture many bug fixes and enhancements. In addition, we worked-around the GWT 1.5.2 bug for TreePanel and TreeNode casting. For a detail view on what has been fixed, please look at the
2.0.5 bug fixed list.

http://gwt-ext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2695

Thanks to Olivier Chedru for the news.

Monday 25 February 2008

GWT Rolodex released in open source

gwt-rolodex :

This widget displays a stack of images that you can flick through like a rolodex or a card deck. It uses gwt's deferred binding for the image generation and lightweight animation to create a fast and smooth experience in all supported browsers. Check out the HelpMovieDemo and FlipBookDemo demos.

Demonstration 1

Demonstration 2

http://code.google.com/p/gwt-rolodex/

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Saturday 16 February 2008

GWT Ext 2.0, on the road for success

GWT Ext 2.0 was the buzz of this week. And because in opensource, the success is always correlated with visibility, I think that with this new version, GWT Ext is on the road for success.


Update : GWT-Ext and GWT Designer 10 Feb 2008 by Eric Clayberg

GWT-Ext Powerful and Stunning Widget Library 16 Feb 2008 by Ray Cheung 

Release of GWT Ext 2.0 14 Feb 2008 by Dietrich Kappe 

GWT-Ext 2.0 released 13 Feb 2008 by info@dnzone.com (Frank Beverdam) 

GWT Ext 2.0 Released…and It's Stupid! (Cool) 13 Feb 2008 by david 

GWT Ext 2.0 Released 11 Feb 2008 by Dion Almaer 

GWT-Ext 2.0 Released 13 Feb 2008 by Dan Vega 

Prototyping with GWT-Ext (google) 12 Feb 2008 by Russell Wilson 

MyGWT or GWT-Ext, which one, both bad ? 11 Feb 2008 by Frans Thamura 

GWT Ext 2.0 released 11 Feb 2008 by Nazmul Idris 

GWT-Ext Widget Library 11 Feb 2008 by bloid 

GWT-Ext.2.0 11 Feb 2008 by Spider84 

Daily del.icio.us for February 6th through February 7th 7 Feb 2008 by Vinny Carpenter 

Weekly GWT Links for 2/9/08 8 Feb 2008 by Chris Fong 

Interesting Links of the week(Feb 15th 2008) 20 hours ago by Adi 

things i definitely still wanna do in 2008 14 Feb 2008 by logemann 

GWT Ext 2.0 Released 12 Feb 2008 by webcorrect 

Arriva GWT Ext 2.0 11 Feb 2008 by r.degni@html.it (Riccardo Degni) 

GWT-Ext widget library 13 Feb 2008 by Administrator 

Interesting Finds: February 11, 2008 10 Feb 2008 by Jason Haley 

GWT-ExtのHelloWorldをやってみる / Eclipse 3.3 / MacOSX 10.5 19 hours ago by p_g_ 

GWT-Ext 2.0 リリース 9 Feb 2008

Publicada la versión 2.0 de GWT-Ext 11 Feb 2008 by remoh 

GWT-EXT 2.0 : impressionant 10 Feb 2008 by Didier Girard 

Ajax a full - GWT-Ext 2.0 (0 puntos) 13 Feb 2008

AJAX News [2008-02-09 08:54:39] 9 Feb 2008 by admin 

GWT-Ext 2.0 : impressive 9 Feb 2008 by dgirard 

来週、でれくた〜 14 Feb 2008

Thursday 7 February 2008

Adding a Box to a GWT Panel

erle

A few days ago ( from the writing of this entry ), I tried to search the web on how to add a box in GWT. You know, that box that nicely envelops your user interface elements. Sadly, the only relevant hit that I got was an entry in the GWT mailing list of a guy asking the same thing, and him being told to “learn CSS”. So, I set off to learn it on my own, and here’s what I found so far

Adding a Box in GWT

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Friday 1 February 2008

HTMLTemplateWidget for GWT

If you're an expirienced GWT developers you may be confronted with difficulties conserned with writting a lot of complicated Java code to design your pages. HTMLTemplateWidget allows to use HTML files for designing.

http://code.google.com/p/htmltemplatewidget/

Saturday 25 August 2007

GWT Widget Spyer

A simple widget that help to inspect the "GWT Widget DOM". It is useful when you want to know HTML code associated with a widget. It helps me to debug differences in browser behavior.
GWT Widget Spyer Demonstration
Source code
Thanks to Sanjiv for his SVN tips that helps me to change mime type of HTML files in SVN.

Monday 20 August 2007

GWTiger : application framework

Addy Kapur :

GWTiger is an application framework that will enable developers to write enterprise applications easily.
The framework essentially contains a set of widgets and java classes that can be included in any GWT project.

The following are the features:-

Widgets and Panels
GWT is a great tool with a lot of flexibility. When you are building a data entry screen or a form, you will have to write a lot of code to have widgets inside a horizontal panel which itself goes into a vertical panel which is embedded in some other panel. GWTiger will reduce that complexity by giving you a class that has built in label, field (text, password, list etc.) and a place for error message. All combined together in one easy package.
All you have to do is:-
TextFieldWidget txtUserId = new TextFieldWidget("User Id");

Field Validation
Very easily add field validation to your application. Making a field required is as simple as calling txtUserId.setRequired(true);

Mask Controls

GWTiger has widgets to provide Mask controls. E.g if you would like someone to enter their phone number in the format (122) 122-1222 all you have to do is to setup a mask control as
MaskTextFieldWidget txtPhone = new MaskTextFieldWidget("Phone","(###) ###-####");

Lazy loading
Each screen may take 2-3 seconds to load. If you build a large application, it may take several seconds/a minute for the application to load. With GWTiger you can use pre built functions to load your screens only when/if you need them.

Login screen

The demo application comes with a template and entire logic to build a login screen including the server side code.

Please view the online demo at http://gwtiger.org/sample/com.mycompany.MyApplication/MyApplication.html
More Info at http://gwtiger.org

Monday 19 March 2007

GWT : Building a navigation bar

canoo :

Many nice and home-grown websites contain a navigation bar. But without a special design tool a navigation bar is not easy to build because it typically involves JavaScript programming. My idea was to build a simple and convenient tool such that a non-technical person with basic knowledge about static HTML can easily include a corresponding navigation bar in its pages.

Building a Regular Website with the Google Web Toolkit
Demonstration

Thursday 15 February 2007

Demo : GWT Dual List

DualList with drag and drop.

Dual List Demo

Tuesday 13 February 2007

Using GWT to Write Opera Widgets

pathfinder :

I've been experimenting with GWT, seeing how it can be hacked into unusual applications -- bookmarklets, Greasemonkey, widgets -- without breaking. The answer is that there are a number of things about the GWT runtime that break in these scenarios (Each bit of code loads in a different HTML file, so each has its own sandbox, therefore, no cross site action). I'm still looking at ways to make it work, but in the meantime, GWT can be used without any problems to develop Opera widgets.

Using GWT to Write Opera Widgets


Saturday 10 February 2007

GWT : Date Picker Widget

Parvinder Thapar :

This is a simple Date Picker Widget that uses a text box and a popup calendar. You can traverse through the calendar and select a date which gets populated in the text box.


Simple Date Picker Demo
Simple Date Picker



Monday 5 February 2007

Instantiations GWT Designer Accelerates Adoption of Google Web Toolkit


Instantiations, Inc., a leading provider of software quality and productivity solutions, today announced the release of GWT Designer™ 1.5. The definitive development tool for the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), GWT Designer is a comprehensive product for creating Ajax Web applications using the Java programming language. Ajax is shorthand for asynchronous JavaScript and XML, an increasingly popular means for coding rich Internet applications. GWT Designer is built on WindowBuilder Proª, the company's market-leading Eclipse tool for creating Java graphical user-interface (GUIs) applications for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh and other operating systems.


Instantiations GWT Designer Accelerates Adoption of Google Web Toolkit

Tuesday 30 January 2007

GWT Component Library

* Canvas Widget
* Round Corners
* Simple Calendar
* RateIt Control
* Script.aculo.us Effects Integration
* Auto-Completion Textbox
* Simple XML Parser
* Hyperlink with Image
* Tooltip Listener

GWT Component Library




Monday 29 January 2007

GWT : Let's build some new stuff!

Joel Webber : "We've had a lot of ideas for new widgets and libraries banging around in our heads for a while, and I think it's about time we started really building out the UI library. To this end, I'd like to propose a set of potential Widgets and simple frameworks that will give GWT apps much more leverage in building good interfaces : Color Palette, Inline Text Edit, Slideshow, Decorated panels, Collapser , Progress bar & busy indicators, Tag clouds, Value Spinner, Link List, Sliders, Dueling Listboxes, Image map, Image Button, Image Strip, Toolbar, Vector Graphics, Rich Text, Fast Table, Splitter Panels, ComboBox, Date & Time Pickers, Effects, Drag & Drop, Custom tool-tips, Data Binding and Form Validation, Good default CSS, Consistent selectability, Ubiquitous keyboard support, TabBar Needs Widgets, Printing support. "

GWT : Let's build some new stuff!
Source : GWT New Stuff






Friday 26 January 2007

Tutorial : Updatable Grid in GWT

Roughian : This is what you end up with if you follow the Step-By-Step Database article. It's meant to demonstrate the basics of interacting with a database. Here, you can add data and, once added, you can edit or delete the individual lines. Feel free to put any old rubbish in - you can always get rid of it before you go, if you want.
Tutorial : Updatable Grid

Wednesday 24 January 2007

GWT RoundedPanel widget

The Google Web Toolkit(GWT) offers a large set of widgets that look familiar to known Google applications. However, the panels in Google applications like GMail™ and Google Calendar™ have rounded corners. The RoundedPanel widget adds rounded corners that look identical to the rounded corners as in GMail™. With one line of code and one css line a standard GWT panel or other widget will have the rounded corners.
GWT RoundedPanel widget