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July 14th, 2010
radu

Automation testing of UI interfaces 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 auto-generates ids which are not guaranteed to stay the same, you cannot [...]

May 26th, 2010
radu

I like ExtJs and the way it is so modular. This time I needed to have something very easy, which is not implemented by default in Ext, so I rolled my own. I needed windows to fire ‘tofront’ and ‘toback’ events. In an app I am working on, the user can have quite many windows [...]

February 18th, 2010
radu

Tips on JavaScript and ExtJS: using the ExtJS ref config option on panels and other components.

January 23rd, 2010
radu

This article explains how you can achieve powerful object oriented JavaScript with the help of ExtJS Core library. Good points on inheritance, overriding, flexibility, possible pitfalls that come with this approach. A good way to start building one page JavaScript web applications.