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Comment on Testing ExtJS with Selenium – Automating UI Tests by Ravi Sankar

Ravi Sankar — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:51:20 +0000

Yes…. why can’t we use css-Selectors as Dirk said

Comment on Window ‘tofront’ and ‘toback’ events by radu

radu — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:56:34 +0000

Hi Fielstem,

Thanks for the question. As you can see, I am overriding the toFront method. If you look in the sources for Ext.Window.toFront, you see it’s returning ‘this’, so I just keep the contract so as not to break other parts of the library. It is a common technique to return `this`, as it is useful for chainability. For example, having a reference to an Ext.Element you can chain methods like: el.show().addClass(‘test-class’).applyStyles({ border:’1px solid red’})… and so on. Same with windows, you can do win.toFront().show(). Hope this is useful. Radu.

Comment on Window ‘tofront’ and ‘toback’ events by fielstem

fielstem — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:45:54 +0000

I am a ExtJS newbie, so apologies for the naive question. I’m still just reading code and trying to understand the javascript and ExtJS techniques. My question is, when completing the toFront method why do you return this? The method triggers the two events, as intended, so what purpose does returning this serve? Any explanation or pointing me to a useful resource would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Comment on Testing ExtJS with Selenium – Automating UI Tests by extjstutorial.org

extjstutorial.org — Sat, 07 May 2011 15:24:00 +0000

Testing ExtJS with Selenium – Automating UI Tests…

Automation testing of UI is essential in any big project, but it is difficult to achieve this for user interfaces built with ExtJS. Selenium records user actions, by clicks on elements, and memorizes the ids of the selected elements. Yet since ExtJS au…

Comment on Testing ExtJS with Selenium – Automating UI Tests by Dirk

Dirk — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:10:54 +0000

Why use a XPATH selector?

With Selenium css-Selectors it’s as easy as this:
css=.seleniumOkButton

Or, equivalent to your above XPATH expression:
css=table .seleniumOkButton

Both should work, but the first expression is probably the mose convenient and sufficient one.

Comment on What I expect from ExtJS 4 by radu

radu — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:13:56 +0000

Hi Mark!
As preview talks have already been given to the SenchaConference in November, as far as I can see ExtJS 4 will still support IE6. It’s a pitty that so many companies are still using it.

Comment on What I expect from ExtJS 4 by Mark

Mark — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:18:08 +0000

I agree that dropping IE6 support is a good thing. But hopefully not in ExtJs4, (version 5 will be fine). Our PC and Laptops at home are updated for sure. But darn! My workstation here in the office is Winxp with IE6 browser. I hate it but no choice. Upgrading of OS to Win7 will be next year.

Comment on Testing ExtJS with Selenium – Automating UI Tests by Testing Extjs Application With Selenium : Few Pointers | am i works?

Testing Extjs Application With Selenium : Few Pointers | am i works? — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:20:08 +0000

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Comment on No for loops – Number prototype instead by radu

radu — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:01:05 +0000

@Dmitriy You are right, Ext provides nice iteration methods. I just wanted to point out a short intro to this issue, that can be used standalone, without all the overhead that ExtJS brings. I admit it’s nothing new Thanks for following and for the comment.

Comment on No for loops – Number prototype instead by Dmitriy Pashkevich

Dmitriy Pashkevich — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:56:51 +0000

ExtJS already implements such functionality. It would also be useful to write a similar function for iterating object properties.
See Ext.each and Ext.iterate