Ext JS in Action

Chapter 7. The venerable GridPanel

This chapter covers

• Learning about the GridPanel Component
• Becoming an expert at Ext JS data Stores
• Setting up custom column renderers
• Configuring GridPanel mouse interaction event handlers
• Enabling GridPanel pagination with the PagingToolbar
• Implementing a custom context menu on the GridPanel

Since the early days of Ext JS, the GridPanel has been the centerpiece of the Ext Framework. It can display data like a table, but is much more robust. In many respects, I believe this holds true today, and the GridPanel is arguably one of its more complicated widgets, because directly depends on five directly supporting classes.

In this chapter, you’ll learn a lot about the GridPanel and the class that feeds ...